Bill Ackman has his hands full: Raising billions for a new stock-picking fund; taking his $18 billion hedge-fund firm public; launching a bid he valued at over $60 billion for Universal Music Group. Still, he stole a moment this past weekend to turn to social media for advice, admitting first to the “likely risk of sharing TMI.” The problem, wrote Ackman, was a former lawyer in his family office, whom he called by the pseudonym Ronda. She had rejected three months of severance and instead demanded two years’ pay—about $2 million—citing an unsafe workplace. About 2,400 words later, other billionaires…

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