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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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Enron’s responses and behaviors during this are so on-brand.
If you have looked harder at the fluff pieces in the press over the last decade that is.
But in the minds of some. It’s all just 4D chess we peons can understand.
Tragic.
All this is because of one man’s ego.
If you have looked harder at the fluff pieces in the press over the last decade that is.
But in the minds of some. It’s all just 4D chess we peons can understand.
Tragic.
All this is because of one man’s ego.
Thank goodness my country has decent employment laws to stop constructive dismissal like this! Nothing shocks me anymore reading about how American firms treat their staff.
Don’t you remember the email? „People who chose not to click yes, will be let go and receive 3 months of severance“
I, and they, have their choice. I made mine, they can make theirs. Nobody is forcing them to stay.
There are so many different jobs at SpaceX and they all have different hourly mins/max’s, so you can’t umbrella the whole company with your 70-75 hour nonsense. That’s not factually accurate or responsible as a reply.
Many salaried workers do an average of 50-57 hours per week, and in crunch times, some workers may hit up to 80 per week with deadlines looming around space vehicle launch schedules.
Again, sign me up.
Used the money to save humanity? What does that even mean? Lol
Eliminating world hunger isn’t a problem money can solve immediately. Money could solve it but it would still take time because the problem is unimaginably complex. Food requires crops, you can’t just will it into existence with money. Technologies created with money could help over time.
You’ve probably personally thrown away massive quantities of food that could’ve fed others.
I get what you're saying and largely agree, but...
1. It's the editors' choice
2. This post has almost 300 comments on it (people engage with this stuff)
3. It's the editor's choice
Any employer that demands employees put their families second though is not a good employer. That’s one thing companies these days drive towards achieving and that is making sure their staff have a healthy work-life balance. Thankfully I live in a country where we get 32 days holiday a year and employers who can’t legally demand that you work beyond your contracted hours. They can of course ask but it’s a fine line has to be HR compliant.
Just because you are somehow fine with working 70-75 hours a week, doesn’t and shouldn’t make it the norm. In fact, we thankfully have proper laws and that would be totally illegal here.
Did you even read the email Musk sent? Employees who opt to quit get 3 months severance.
And before you praise him for being so generous, consider that this approach of chasing people off with threats of making the workplace unsuitable for people could result in lawsuits. Offering severance means they have to sign an acceptance letter that typically includes forfeiting any legal recourse in response to quitting/being laid off.
'In order for me to continue to maintain the work/life balance I enjoy, I'm going to have to destroy yours.'
Hundreds of Twitter employees today resigned from the company rather than opting in to be part of "Twitter 2.0" under Elon Musk, according to The Verge. Musk earlier this week told workers that Twitter will be "extremely hardcore" going forward, with employees expected to put in long hours at high intensity. "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade," he said.
Musk on Wednesday sent out a Google form and asked employees to respond "Yes" by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday if they wanted to stay at the company. Hundreds decided not to, and have said their goodbyes in Slack and on Twitter. Departing employees will receive a severance package.
When he took over Twitter, Musk laid off approximately half of the 7,500 employees that were at the company at the time, and since then, he has continued firing employees who have been critical of him, including longtime engineers.
Twitter employees that spoke to The Verge said that given the number of people that have left, Twitter could "start breaking soon" and that it will be "extremely hard for Twitter to recover."
With the exodus of employees, Twitter temporarily closed all office buildings and suspended badge access. According to Zoë Schiffer, Musk and his team are "terrified employees are going to sabotage the company."
In the final hours ahead of the deadline, Musk reportedly attempted to convince employees to stay. Bloomberg says that key staff were brought into meetings and Musk also walked back his in-office work demands. He had said that all employees needed to work from the office 40 hours a week, but today he said that working from home was allowed with monthly in-person meetings and managerial approval.
At the current time, Musk's first initiative is on pause as Twitter makes changes. Last week, Twitter introduced a more expensive $8 version of Twitter Blue that included a verification badge, and it turned out that debuting widespread verification led to account impersonation that impacted numerous companies.
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I am very proud to say I rarely work over 45 hours a week and have a life away from work. If I was doing silly hours like some, I wouldn’t be admitting it.
Me: Say nothing, you're going to get banned for making Political post outside of Political News forum.
Also Me: But it is a political issue!
Me: Doesn't matter.
Also Me: What if I just state the facts?
Me: That's not how it works.
Also Me: Damn, land of the free and the brave. /s
Me: Shut up, go to Twitter there you can vent your anger together with the other Nazis!
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Also Me: But it is a political issue!
Me: Doesn't matter.
Also Me: What if I just state the facts?
Me: That's not how it works.
Also Me: Damn, land of the free and the brave. /s
Me: Shut up, go to Twitter there you can vent your anger together with the other Nazis!
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Maybe this was the plan all along? He gets his $58 billion payout from Tesla soon, he doesn’t need that so he will make a lowball offer to pay his debtors for Twitter and he will still be loaded.
meantime, no Twitter guys tracking him, posting memes of him, posting stuff about Tesla etc. Musk is an incredibly vain guy, hair transplants, plastic surgery, easily bruised ego etc, if he can destroy Twitter for a few billion bucks he would.
meantime, no Twitter guys tracking him, posting memes of him, posting stuff about Tesla etc. Musk is an incredibly vain guy, hair transplants, plastic surgery, easily bruised ego etc, if he can destroy Twitter for a few billion bucks he would.
You cannot eliminate world hunger by throwing money on it.
It’s part of the capitalist system and how money is unequally distributed.
Our system needs the hunger and the poverty of many to feed a few.
Hunger can only be eliminated by creating a new economy that does not rely on exploitation.
Do you honestly think tech companies are paying these software engineers $500k+/yr and not work hard?
And what is happening in tech industry right now, especially in combination with WFH, is that they hired so many high-paying software engineers, that they don’t know what everybody is doing. Some of the software engineers are working multiple jobs at the same time by working from home even (and they get fired for it if they are being found out).
The fact that these Twitter employees were already complaining about working 40 hours per week is already damning how little they work at Twitter.
And really, don’t feel sorry for them. A fresh graduate in this industry can already make $200K/yr if you include sign-on bonus and stock options.
You will work 80 hours a week and love it!
Or you will be fired from this meat processing plant in Chicago circa 1901.
Or you will be fired from this meat processing plant in Chicago circa 1901.
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1) Musk was very clear on his intentions before buying Twitter. Nothing that has transpired should be a surprise.
2) Twitter board adopts "poison pill" strategy to fend off Musk's hostile take over. While this sounds like the board is trying the save the company, it's basically a hedge - stop the take over and be lauded as heroes or Musk swallows the pill with a Tequila chaser and board walks away with a ridiculous amount of money.
3) The Twitter board accepted Musk's offer stating "best for shareholders". Most employees are also shareholders.
Nobody seems to holding the Twitter board accountable for any of this....
2) Twitter board adopts "poison pill" strategy to fend off Musk's hostile take over. While this sounds like the board is trying the save the company, it's basically a hedge - stop the take over and be lauded as heroes or Musk swallows the pill with a Tequila chaser and board walks away with a ridiculous amount of money.
3) The Twitter board accepted Musk's offer stating "best for shareholders". Most employees are also shareholders.
Nobody seems to holding the Twitter board accountable for any of this....
Billionaires made their money on the backs of good donkeys who brag about working 75 hours a week for someone else.
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