MrSquished
Lifer
- Jan 14, 2013
- 21,261
- 19,749
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@Red Squirrel Squirrel should tweet at him for a job. He can tell Elon he thinks Twitter can be run out of a shed and with like 10 employees. Really rooting for squirrel to get the opportunity.
@Red Squirrel Squirrel should tweet at him for a job. He can tell Elon he thinks Twitter can be run out of a shed and with like 10 employees. Really rooting for squirrel to get the opportunity.
nakedfrog
No Lifer
- Apr 3, 2001
- 58,152
- 12,325
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What, and come work in a US city where he'd be under a constant barrage of gunfire?
nakedfrog
No Lifer
- Apr 3, 2001
- 58,152
- 12,325
- 136
Heartbreaker
Diamond Member
- Apr 3, 2006
- 4,227
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Quoting my previous question, and the answer is apparently not. Now HR is telling anyone who didn't sign the pledge than the have "resigned", and thus aren't entitled to severance.
There is no low Musk won't stoop to. Total bond villain. Remember that thing, I promised: I lied.
Image instead of twit link to avoid driving more traffic to Musk.
MomentsofSanity
Lifer
- Jan 25, 2011
- 16,590
- 8,672
- 146
He will be left with what amounts to slave labor. People in visas who have no choice but to stay. I think that number is closer to 1000 though, not 238. I am also hearing they disabled everyone’s access until Monday to the building and are “closed” for the weekend.
so… hooray for Truth Social’s moment to shine?
so… hooray for Truth Social’s moment to shine?
K1052
Elite Member
- Aug 21, 2003
- 46,044
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- 136
He's paranoid somebody will sabotage the platform. Nobody has to do anything, with the amount of institutional knowledge that he just canned the site will fail sooner or later.
K1052
Elite Member
- Aug 21, 2003
- 46,044
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In Zorin’s defense he did have an actual business plan unlike Musk.
MomentsofSanity
Lifer
- Jan 25, 2011
- 16,590
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- 146
Brainonska511
Lifer
- Dec 10, 2005
- 24,075
- 6,885
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An interesting thread Musk and how he's crafted a fraudulent biography and whatnot.
Fair point. (Though TBH I can't remember a single thing about the plot of that movie - just Christopher Walken being Christopher Walken and Roger Moore being too old.)
MrSquished
Lifer
- Jan 14, 2013
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K1052
Elite Member
- Aug 21, 2003
- 46,044
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He was going to corner the semiconductor market by destroying Silicon Valley. Like it was a legit workable plan for a supervillain.
MrSquished
Lifer
- Jan 14, 2013
- 21,261
- 19,749
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Twitter is a shit show of incompetence. It's only going to get worse
www.buzzfeednews.com
Verified Twitter Users Are Stuck With Joke Names Like “Spicy Chicken Sandwich” And “Giant Penis”
Elon Musk's move to prevent account impersonation has left many users' display names frozen in time.
Pens1566
Lifer
- Oct 11, 2005
- 11,580
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It would have been laughed out of the writers room for "Silicon Valley". Even Hooli wasn't this far fetched.
Brainonska511
Lifer
- Dec 10, 2005
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Could be that the anti-democracy Peter Thiel gang egged their buddy on in order to sink the Twitter ship, given that it had been a vehicle for embarrassing rich people with truth, and we know how thin-skinned some of them are.
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 37,508
- 8,102
- 136
Headlining at NYTimes right now (edited snip from the top):
Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay
Mr. Musk, Twitter’s new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”
Elon Musk and his advisers held meetings with some Twitter workers to try to stop them from leaving.
By Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac and David McCabe
Nov. 17, 2022
Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk had given Twitter employees to decide whether to stay or leave their jobs, the social media company appeared to be in disarray.
Mr. Musk and his advisers held meetings with some Twitter workers whom they deemed “critical” to stop them from leaving, four people with knowledge of the conversations said. He sent out confusing messages about the company’s remote work policy, appearing to soften his stance on not allowing people to work from home before warning their managers, according to those people and internal emails viewed by The New York Times.
All the while, two people said, resignations started to roll in. By the deadline, 5 p.m. Eastern time, hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to have decided to depart with three months of severance pay, the people said. Twitter later announced via email that it would close “our office buildings” and disable employee badge access until Monday.
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Methinks Mr. Twitter may have lost his $44 billion!
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 37,508
- 8,102
- 136
Some interesting remarks by NYTimes readers:
Nomind
Nowhere3h ago
For Mr. Musk, "free speech" is great so long as no one in his company disagrees with him. Then free speech gets you fired. And if you do want to keep working at Twitter, you better be prepared to work 100+ hour weeks like the boss. (Even though Mr. Musk will only do that for a few weeks before moving on to his other investments.) In other words, to be a Twitter 2.0 employee, don't have a family, don't have friends, sleep in your office, compromise your health and well being, and hope that it's all worth it in the end. George Orwell couldn't have written a more dystopian scene.
10 Replies1004 Recommended
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AMEWX
Seattle3h ago
This is the most 'emperor has no clothes' moment I can remember in my lifetime. Musk has indiscriminately fired teams of engineers that would make most tech companies drool, engineers who have offers within minutes in their public tweet replies. All of the Musk fans who think he is a genius obviously do not understand the harm he is causing this company in real time, in full public view. Every step he takes seems more tone-deaf than the last. Engineers are not interchangeable, and he is firing brain surgeons like he can replace them with nurses (no offense intended to nurses, just a different skill set!). A high-caliber engineer that makes a senior engineer's salary in San Francisco has options and does not want to work 80 hours a week for a man-child who will publicly humiliate their respected peers. Twitter needs a massive number of good engineers, and the effects of losing this much talent this quickly are showing on-cue on the site. I do not see how his reputation recovers from this.
3 Replies 510 Recommend
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Andrew
Indiana3h ago
If anyone is wondering what has just happened. Elon fired 50% of Twitters employees when he first arrived and then fired more over the last few weeks. This week he delivered an ultimatum to the remaining employees. Quit and get three months severance or stay and prepare to work yourself to death for me and apparently around 75% of the remaining staff quit this week so they closed the offices through Monday. Since Elon bought Twitter, they have lost around 88% of their employees.
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Muse comment: If that last one is true, Twtr ist kaput!
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Quit and get three months severance or stay and prepare to work yourself to death ^ Which you will have to, to make up for all the workers that quit. Elon - getting his South African Gold Miner yas-boss, on. What's it like - becoming a 21st Century equivalent of a wage slave?
Reply14 Recommend
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You would think that putting a match to $44B would instill some humility in the person holding the match. In this case, I wouldn't bet on it.
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Musk may drive Twitter off a cliff before Trump gets a chance to be reinstated. What a promising torrent of recent news: the Red Trickle and Trump's downward spiral, Dems keeping the Senate, Zuckerberg eviscerating Meta, Russia kicked out of Kherson, Bolsanaro ousted in Brazil. I don't know how much more schadenfreude I can take, but I am willing to find out.
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It's like a masterclass in how not to run a business: demoralize employees, alienate advertisers, chase away customers.
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I'm lost as to why Twitter staff wouldn't sign up to become an erratic billionaire's slave? Is Twitter hiring for key talent? I can't wait to apply, and be treated like an Egyptian slave, kill myself for a CEO loose cannon, to maintain an increasingly toxic platform that scares off its main revenue stream of brand advertising. Dragging stones to build a pharaoh's pyramid in BC Egypt sounds more inspirational.
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Twitter may be down to less than 1000 employees after today and lots of rumors on the Internet that entire important teams resigned en masse. The chance of something breaking and twitter going down is very high especially with expected load from the World Cup. On the plus side it'll save on server costs.
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Senior engineer here, who has worked for some of the most demanding US tech giants. Once you have spent years / decades building global solutions, earning multiple professional level industry certifications and have gained an expert knowledge on how information moves globally….you enter a select circle. A circle where jobs find you. Jobs that pay a lot of money, with generous stock options. Jobs where you work hard, but you are valued. A circle where you can call someone and you have a job immediately. When you see a CEO taking glee in publicly firing engineers, you have poisoned the well. I can only imagine the deluge of skilled engineers running for the exit. Skilled engineers have so many other options. Twitter is in real trouble.
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Apparently the lockout happened because the guy whose job it was to turn badge access on/off quit. Then some fool tried to mess with that system and ended up locking everyone out of Twitter HQ. Then Elon called this guy begging for his help .... Hilarious!
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Hey NYT, When a company cans 1/2 of its workforce, hundreds more resign voluntarily, and the company locks out all employees from its headquarters - it's okay to say the company is in disarray, not merely that it "appears" to be in disarray.
Nomind
Nowhere3h ago
For Mr. Musk, "free speech" is great so long as no one in his company disagrees with him. Then free speech gets you fired. And if you do want to keep working at Twitter, you better be prepared to work 100+ hour weeks like the boss. (Even though Mr. Musk will only do that for a few weeks before moving on to his other investments.) In other words, to be a Twitter 2.0 employee, don't have a family, don't have friends, sleep in your office, compromise your health and well being, and hope that it's all worth it in the end. George Orwell couldn't have written a more dystopian scene.
10 Replies1004 Recommended
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AMEWX
Seattle3h ago
This is the most 'emperor has no clothes' moment I can remember in my lifetime. Musk has indiscriminately fired teams of engineers that would make most tech companies drool, engineers who have offers within minutes in their public tweet replies. All of the Musk fans who think he is a genius obviously do not understand the harm he is causing this company in real time, in full public view. Every step he takes seems more tone-deaf than the last. Engineers are not interchangeable, and he is firing brain surgeons like he can replace them with nurses (no offense intended to nurses, just a different skill set!). A high-caliber engineer that makes a senior engineer's salary in San Francisco has options and does not want to work 80 hours a week for a man-child who will publicly humiliate their respected peers. Twitter needs a massive number of good engineers, and the effects of losing this much talent this quickly are showing on-cue on the site. I do not see how his reputation recovers from this.
3 Replies 510 Recommend
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Andrew
Indiana3h ago
If anyone is wondering what has just happened. Elon fired 50% of Twitters employees when he first arrived and then fired more over the last few weeks. This week he delivered an ultimatum to the remaining employees. Quit and get three months severance or stay and prepare to work yourself to death for me and apparently around 75% of the remaining staff quit this week so they closed the offices through Monday. Since Elon bought Twitter, they have lost around 88% of their employees.
8 Replies 357 Recommend
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Muse comment: If that last one is true, Twtr ist kaput!
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Quit and get three months severance or stay and prepare to work yourself to death ^ Which you will have to, to make up for all the workers that quit. Elon - getting his South African Gold Miner yas-boss, on. What's it like - becoming a 21st Century equivalent of a wage slave?
Reply14 Recommend
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You would think that putting a match to $44B would instill some humility in the person holding the match. In this case, I wouldn't bet on it.
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Musk may drive Twitter off a cliff before Trump gets a chance to be reinstated. What a promising torrent of recent news: the Red Trickle and Trump's downward spiral, Dems keeping the Senate, Zuckerberg eviscerating Meta, Russia kicked out of Kherson, Bolsanaro ousted in Brazil. I don't know how much more schadenfreude I can take, but I am willing to find out.
- - - -
It's like a masterclass in how not to run a business: demoralize employees, alienate advertisers, chase away customers.
- - - -
I'm lost as to why Twitter staff wouldn't sign up to become an erratic billionaire's slave? Is Twitter hiring for key talent? I can't wait to apply, and be treated like an Egyptian slave, kill myself for a CEO loose cannon, to maintain an increasingly toxic platform that scares off its main revenue stream of brand advertising. Dragging stones to build a pharaoh's pyramid in BC Egypt sounds more inspirational.
- - - -
Twitter may be down to less than 1000 employees after today and lots of rumors on the Internet that entire important teams resigned en masse. The chance of something breaking and twitter going down is very high especially with expected load from the World Cup. On the plus side it'll save on server costs.
- - - -
Senior engineer here, who has worked for some of the most demanding US tech giants. Once you have spent years / decades building global solutions, earning multiple professional level industry certifications and have gained an expert knowledge on how information moves globally….you enter a select circle. A circle where jobs find you. Jobs that pay a lot of money, with generous stock options. Jobs where you work hard, but you are valued. A circle where you can call someone and you have a job immediately. When you see a CEO taking glee in publicly firing engineers, you have poisoned the well. I can only imagine the deluge of skilled engineers running for the exit. Skilled engineers have so many other options. Twitter is in real trouble.
- - - -
Apparently the lockout happened because the guy whose job it was to turn badge access on/off quit. Then some fool tried to mess with that system and ended up locking everyone out of Twitter HQ. Then Elon called this guy begging for his help .... Hilarious!
- - - -
Hey NYT, When a company cans 1/2 of its workforce, hundreds more resign voluntarily, and the company locks out all employees from its headquarters - it's okay to say the company is in disarray, not merely that it "appears" to be in disarray.
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