People are so quick to quit nowadays, makes it easy for companies not to pay unemployment
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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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If it does, then their infrastructure team that quit were a bunch of clowns.
Enterprise grade hardware doesn’t die within 3 days. If not setup properly with log rotation and other forms of automation, I imagine some critical file systems could run out of space and cause things to start to have issues, but things like clustering and HA can mitigate the impact of that, and if they weren’t using clusters or HA, then again … they’re a bunch of clowns.
Failed backups will probably go unaddressed. There will be some … that’s inevitable.
Anyway, that’s just a couple things off the top of my head. It’ll take a while for all those things to finally cause a site-wide outage.
More likely there will be a new team hired before anything major starts to happen to their infrastructure. New team will be busy getting the “lay of the land” and doing triage for the first couple weeks, but within a month they should have a good handle on things.
First of all implying that Twitter with its over 10K (7500 employees & 5000 contractors), only has 100 people doing the majority of the work, is incorrect. There are over 100 teams at twitter, a bunch of them have no people now, by your math, some of the teams had noone that does work, and all the other teams have the majority of the work done by a single person. Also all Elon has done is lower compensation at every turn. First of all he fired half the employees. Virtually noone does nothing, and everything that 1/2 of the employees were doing now has to be done by someone else. We had a 10% reduction in force at my employer and the extra workload was nightmarish, losing 50% is a nightmare to all of Twitter, and then throw in firing 80% of the contractors and everyone has 3-4x as much work as before. Add to that Elon now by saying you now have to come into the office a minimum of 40 hours a week (Gas, parking, drive time, etc) , no free food (more money) and oh btw I need 80+ hours a week from you. Understand most of Twitter are salaried, they get paid the same for 40 hours as they do for 80+ hours, this is classic Elon, you only have to look at his 2021 email to all the employees at SpaceX, when he told them they may go bankrupt if everyone took their 4 day Thanksgiving Holiday weekend instead of saving the company. Same message this year (Bankruptcy), different company but again, you need to work super hard for Twitter 2.0, because I bought the company, and borrowed the money for it instead of selling another 13 Billion in stock, and the company really doesn't have the cash flow to pay the note I took out, so I decided to make the advertisers mad and implemented a feature (Cool blue Check), that costs me $12 in revenue per person using it per month. Yeah ELON!!!
-Tig
Smart in one area doesn't mean smart across the board. Steve Jobs was colossal moron who thought he could treat his pancreatic cancer with supplements and juices.
If anything, you could be a LOT smarter than many of these glorified suits.
Dear Twitter Employee,
Twitter's new owner, the world's richest person, requires you to pledge your undying fealty to him and this company. You must pledge to spend every waking moment making him even richer. If you refuse, your employment with this company will be terminated. Those failing to make this pledge are, no doubt, lazy good for nothing employees who contribute nothing to this company anyway, so good riddance.
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Twitter's new owner, the world's richest person, requires you to pledge your undying fealty to him and this company. You must pledge to spend every waking moment making him even richer. If you refuse, your employment with this company will be terminated. Those failing to make this pledge are, no doubt, lazy good for nothing employees who contribute nothing to this company anyway, so good riddance.
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Working from home is cool. *Expecting* to work from home and acting like having to go to the office is some horrible injustice is incredibly entitled.
It's funny how things seem so polarized.
This move from Elon is quite rushed and drastic. He might pull it off, he might drive the company in the ground.
Do I like it? - NO!
I worked at a company where the CEO did the same thing (except he was a certified moron, and he let valuable people go that would have been key for him)
The company is now - meh..... but you never know.
I say - let's wait and see. If nothing good comes out of it, well at least I enjoyed the popcorn while watching the digital soap-opera drama.
This move from Elon is quite rushed and drastic. He might pull it off, he might drive the company in the ground.
Do I like it? - NO!
I worked at a company where the CEO did the same thing (except he was a certified moron, and he let valuable people go that would have been key for him)
The company is now - meh..... but you never know.
I say - let's wait and see. If nothing good comes out of it, well at least I enjoyed the popcorn while watching the digital soap-opera drama.
BINGO! An ultimatum like that gets all the awesome engineers to dust off their resumes and job hop for a nice raise. What younget left with are the people working there on H1 Visas and cannot jump ship and the people who are not superstar engineers and would have a hard time finding another job. No superstar engineer reads that ultimatum and thinks “finally, this is what I have been waiting for!” (Unless they are already an Elon cultist).
That doesnt make any sense. These arent people who just started working from home, they have been for years, in some cases for a decade and many many more for 3 years at least. Why wouldnt you expect to work from if you work from home already? It’s an entirely reasonable expectation
3 month severance is likely more money too since unemployment benefits do not replace your full salary when you make $150m annually.
Blind love of a maniac is disgusting and insane.
Talking about personal worship.
Agreed. We need not look further than Apple when Steve Jobs returned. He definitely killed some programs, and people quit, but he brought in some really strong folks from NeXT and refocused the product pipeline.
I don't see Musk doing anything like that here... he just fired half the company, and then told everyone to work harder. Isn't adding functionality, just making people pay for the functionality that was already free. I barely used twitter but I deleted my account.
Given he expects and makes them do it at SpaceX, why on earth do you think he is just kidding about doing it a Twitter? Understand since they are salaried they don't get any more money, so he wants them to work twice as many hours for only the same amount of pay, and oh btw even before the 25% who were left exited the company today, given the 50% of employees he had already fired last week and 80% of the contractors he fired last weekedn, we have 3-4X the work with the much smaller staff, and almost a year to a day from his last thanksgiving post of SpaceX, about, need to work Thanksgiving or we go BANKRUPT!!! This year - Twitter employees get we need to double down with 25% of the staff left or we are going BANKRUPT!!!!. Gee that looks familiar. Most of the staff that is left have work visa or health care issues that prevent them from just quitting but the majority are going to be looking for new jobs. Elon is notorious for giving bad raises, and having some of the worst work-life balanced companies in the world, trying to run twitter with 1/3-1/4 of the people that it was running with only two weeks ago, all while being yelled at for not working a full 40 hours of unpaid overtime, its not a job a bunch of competent people are going to be signing up for and he doesn't even have the we are going to Mars lie to recruit people for Twitter.
-Tig
I bet most of his money was shoved up his ass by family
The Steve Jobs health anecdote is mind numbing, is that not the highest level of idiocy, anyway without getting into any of the politics of Elon Musk, and without debating about what his true intentions are, is there a gut Twitter strategy that makes sense in terms of him selling the company on the cheap?
Immediately one would say well what is the sense of buying Twitter for $44 billion, only to turn around and sell for it for $24 billion, well come to think of it as I write it, yeah, I can't see how, but maybe someone sees some sort of a strategy that makes sense, and or are there analogues to other historical business decisions.
And again I'm not writing that Musk is purposefully tanking the company, I'm just curious if anyone can see some sort of way in which that would allow him to escape.
Where do I sign up?
I already work about 70-75 hours a week at a pretty damn high intensity.
It’s his company now. He can run it how he sees fit.
And for all of you that are against this proposition of his or against his style…
How do you know he isn’t just weeding out the lazy a$$e$ up front that will flee at the mention of hard work? Afterwards, he will treat those that stuck by his side with a lot more leniency but still require production?
I already work about 70-75 hours a week at a pretty damn high intensity.
It’s his company now. He can run it how he sees fit.
And for all of you that are against this proposition of his or against his style…
How do you know he isn’t just weeding out the lazy a$$e$ up front that will flee at the mention of hard work? Afterwards, he will treat those that stuck by his side with a lot more leniency but still require production?
I do not believe in abusing employees, but if the employees are responsible for any of Twitter's direction then Good reiddance.
Very dystopian to be working 8 hours - 5 days a week, with a pay wage of $100K+ a year . USA needs to put an end for this employee abuse by the capitalists 🤣🤣🤣
This guy is like the richest person on earth. maybe he knows a thing or two about running a business more than us.
- Lots of ads
- lots of spam
- ugly gui
- dumbest search ever
- Junk suggestions
- Forces corporate opinions
- Junk usability
Very dystopian to be working 8 hours - 5 days a week, with a pay wage of $100K+ a year . USA needs to put an end for this employee abuse by the capitalists 🤣🤣🤣
This guy is like the richest person on earth. maybe he knows a thing or two about running a business more than us.
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Good. Bye bye Twitter.
Elon is a dumber than people realize and we are seeing that.
If you work at Twitter, you better be looking for a new job. You’re going to lose it in a few months anyways when Twitter implodes and goes bankrupt.
Elon is a dumber than people realize and we are seeing that.
If you work at Twitter, you better be looking for a new job. You’re going to lose it in a few months anyways when Twitter implodes and goes bankrupt.
In that case he should have waited for it to go into bankruptcy and pick up the assets on the cheap. Once it goes into bankruptcy his equity stake will be worth $0 and the debt holders will own the company entirely
Well in California it’s paid for by both employees in paycheck withholding and employers in premiums
Are you a salaried person who is working 70-75 hours a week and still getting paid the same as you were when you were working 40 hours a week? Thats what Elon is asking here. At this point about 75% of the people are gone, so everyone has a lot more work to do. They can't work tomorrow or this weekend, because they have locked everyone out until Monday, he's decided instead of 8-5 M-F, the hours are 7-7 M-Sunday, ie 12 hour days, 7 days a week. Why do I know he isn't just weeding out the lazy people, because he does this same thing (80+ hour weeks for salaried employees) at SpaceX and has been doing it for probably 10 years now. Its constantly voted one of the worst Work-Life balance companies. Tesla has so many complaints about its work practices that it would require a different thread.
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