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Musk is a bit nuts in that he works about 16 hrs a day , running multiple businesses and doesn’t like people that can’t keep up .
I dont dismiss his approach, one of the biggest problems with all tech companies is they hire for growth and what they imagine it will be , if growth doesn’t occur or your backslide you have lots of employees with little to do. He’s not wrong in cleaning house .
It inspired Zuckerberg to follow suit and dump staff at Meta . You can expect google to follow .


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From what I've seen most twitter employees are left leaning and hate the guy. Does he let them stay on with the company and cause trouble/sabotage or does he weed them out and get rid of the obvious ones and make it miserable for the rest so they leave on their own?

He won't have any issue replacing key employees that are fired/leave. As much as people hate his persona there is scores that would kill to work at space x or tesla. Just like anywhere else, hard working employees will thrive.
 
I'm hearing 75% of the remaining 50% are leaving... that puts it at 88-90% of the workforce gone in less than 3 weeks?

Now i dont know about you but for a tech company that has developers and code... i know it's gonna be months if not YEARS before they figure $hit out and how stuff works again.

There are intricacies that can't just be gotten by glancing at how it was built.

Let's see if he can bounce back up. Or maybe he's sinking the ship ? lol
 
LePhillou said:
I'm hearing 75% of the remaining 50% are leaving... that puts it at 88-90% of the workforce gone in less than 3 weeks?

Now i dont know about you but for a tech company that has developers and code... i know it's gonna be months if not YEARS before they figure $hit out and how stuff works again.

There are intricacies that can't just be gotten by glancing at how it was built.

Let's see if he can bounce back up. Or maybe he's sinking the ship ? lol
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Following trump's program and taking a 44b loss so he doesnt have to pay as much income tax on his 55b tesla windfall?
 
mimico_polak said:
Elon thinks by giving them the ‘option’ of responding that’s he’s not responsible for any severance or anything as such.

This is nothing more than a man child / dictator forcing his will on the employees.

You get a small portion that will love him regardless…

And you’ll get a bigger portion that will put up with his poo until he fires them…and then they’ll collect their severance.

He seems to be on route to drive the entire ship into the ground…maybe he wants a 44B write off so he doesn’t pay tax for the next 10+ years.

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Anyone who didn’t click was deemed to have accepted a voluntary layoff and would receive 3 months severance.
 
Evoex said:
Anyone who didn’t click was deemed to have accepted a voluntary layoff and would receive 3 months severance.
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In theory. Currently they would need outside help to even be able to disburse all this severance
 
TwistedKestrel said:
In theory. Currently they would need outside help to even be able to disburse all this severance
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In theory they might. If the company wrote it on paper then it’s enforceable.

Last I checked the company was worth quite a bit…on paper.
 
Evoex said:
Anyone who didn’t click was deemed to have accepted a voluntary layoff and would receive 3 months severance.
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Yes. What I meant is people could click ‘yes’ and then continue working normally instead of ‘hardcore’.

Then they’d get fired and get severance regardless.

I would take the 3 months and jump ship.
 
DownUnder said:
If musk can convince Trudeau he fired all the people to lower his carbon footprint, I'm sure we can get Trudeau to fly his jet there and hand over some Canadian tax dollars to Twitter.
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Im sorry, but this made my morning. You win the internet today.
 
I see nothing wrong with Musk's approach. Find the toughest most dedicated people, pay them whatever it takes and you will get results. I spent a lot of years in high tech, there was always a few who produced the work of 5, and were paid double.

If I could have found more, I too would have cut down.

But Unicorns are hard to find, and harder to manage.
 
Mad Mike said:
I see nothing wrong with Musk's approach. Find the toughest most dedicated people, pay them whatever it takes and you will get results. I spent a lot of years in high tech, there was always a few who produced the work of 5, and were paid double.

If I could have found more, I too would have cut down.

But Unicorns are hard to find, and harder to manage.
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Yes. In the end you want higher productivity per employee.

There's a way to do it.

And there's the way Musk did it.

The way he did it doesn't allow for any knowledge transfer. Not all code gets commented. Not all patches get fully explained.

And ultimatums without accommodations for the sake of being "hardcore" aren't how you keep talent. In the end work-life balance (esp after lockdowns, pandemics, and re-focusing on what matters) might have bumped up in priority for a lot of people in the past few years. Especially when working for a company that originally promised that, if achievable, remote work forever would be possible; this is a complete 180.

We'll see how it goes in the coming weeks.
 
It seems like allot of the former staff had a hate on for Musk even before he got there. I think he didn't want employees working there who were rooting for failure.

I've never tweeted but it seems that people are really freaked out by his commitment to less moderation. Like the world will come to an end without twitter censorship. I don't get it, I'm reading that all of these people from left thinking in the US are switching to Mastadon which has even less moderation as far as I can tell.

Is there more to this? What is with people saying they want to boycott it?
 
woot said:
It seems like allot of the former staff had a hate on for Musk even before he got there. I think he didn't want employees working there who were rooting for failure.

I've never tweeted but it seems that people are really freaked out by his commitment to less moderation. Like the world will come to an end without twitter censorship. I don't get it, I'm reading that all of these people from left thinking in the US are switching to Mastadon which has even less moderation as far as I can tell.

Is there more to this? What is with people saying they want to boycott it?
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Elon Musk has a PR problem ^_^
 
woot said:
It seems like allot of the former staff had a hate on for Musk even before he got there. I think he didn't want employees working there who were rooting for failure.

I've never tweeted but it seems that people are really freaked out by his commitment to less moderation. Like the world will come to an end without twitter censorship. I don't get it, I'm reading that all of these people from left thinking in the US are switching to Mastadon which has even less moderation as far as I can tell.

Is there more to this? What is with people saying they want to boycott it?
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I found the app to be more hassle and pain recently so just got rid of it outright.

Honestly zero regrets. I’d rid of Facebook but I enjoy marketplace and still use it to chat with relatives.

REDDIT and GTAM on the chopping block for my social media? I’d rather lose my left hand.
 
mimico_polak said:
Yes. What I meant is people could click ‘yes’ and then continue working normally instead of ‘hardcore’.

Then they’d get fired and get severance regardless.

I would take the 3 months and jump ship.
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Severance is a right here, it's not in a lot of places. I'm guessing a lot of Twitter's folks live in California. When I was there, most people in high tech signed an NDA and setup terms for separation. If companies let you go when they were flying high, 2 weeks to 4 months was typical as they didn't want to negatively impact their image to future recruits.

In times of trouble... zilch. A takeover, cost cutting RIFS often left employees with the last paycheck and vacation pay.
 
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