1) I know people there (or who were there until yesterday anyway)
2) whole teams are gone
3) 90% or so of the whole company is gone
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2) whole teams are gone
3) 90% or so of the whole company is gone
Absolutely, so many opportunities out there for skilled people.
Blimey from what century did you appear? Sounds like the kind of employee Elon would love, although I'm sure he'd love a few more children of his own with his own employees
I wouldn't work for/with anyone who measures my contribution in hours per week, it is such an antiquated old fashioned management style. Measure and reward on output instead of attendance...
Of all the things that this world needs desperately enough to ask people to sacrifice double their health and family life over, saving the butt of the richest man in the worlds latest ill-concieved luxury acquisition has to rank at the absolute bottom. Elon’s already loaded it with debt, all he’s got to do now is make it unsavable and let it fully run aground to make a credible defense to the SEC, and he’s in the clear.
Yes and No. It is censorship if you just don't like what people are saying because you believe differently. The issue with all of this is that Twitter could have saved itself before Musk ever took over. Twitter had employees that decided they would only enforce the rules as stated on the site for certain cases. That most certainly IS censorship. Notice I am not saying "free speech". I am saying Twitter had rules that they did not enforce or ignored because of their personal beliefs and/or political stance. The simple solution to avoid all of this was to apply the rules equally.
While it sucks for some of these employees to quit or be fired. I think it really comes down to are they able to do their job without putting personal beliefs in the way of the rules?
You beat me by 12 hours.
If only we could be rid of both of these, humanity would be much better.
I also see that the Congress Critters on both sides are starting to realize what a mess Tik Tok is and sooner than later, that will be gone too.
Have patience and let this play out. Elon figuring out who the performers are and where the dead weight is. Critical in any new org and/or restructuring.
My hours spike up every so often on major releases, weeks when I’m trying to clear my desk before I go on vacation, or the rare times when there’s a major emergency that needs attention but those are fine, expected, were clear expectations when I took the job, and also I get paid extra for the time. If my employer told me I was suddenly expected to work 80 hrs/week or more, every week, even *with* the extra pay I’d get I’d quit. My job, while I enjoy it, is what pays for the rest of my life, not the other way around.
Well it basically depends on if the Twitter moderation staff are employee's or 3rd party hired contractors because reporters like to stretch the true sometimes in that the actually number of employees a company has can also include 3rd party contractors. Twitter will have thousands of moderators around the world who are native speakers of the countries Twitter is used in. Now are these being classed as employee's or 3rd party contractors because if they are classed as 3rd party contractors then i agree with you that 7,500 employee's to run a social media company is a bit excissive.
My manager lives 2,000+ miles away from me and I have no trouble staying in touch with him throughout the week, the idea that you physically need to be in the office for jobs that can be done from home is absurd. Some people work better in the office, and if they *want* to go in cool, but forcing people doing their jobs just fine into the office just because is absurd.Because once the pandemic hit, Twitter changed their policy to https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-employees-can-work-home-forever-ceo-says-n1205346. Twitter still ran fine with that policy. It's pretty crazy to suddenly give workers <12 hours notice that they're suddenly supposed to be in the office. I bet a lot of people relocated to somewhere not within commuting distance.
At my company where we did NOT like remote work before the pandemic, our company changed stances. Now many (most?) teams are ok with some to all remote workers. Office attendance is super low. Some managers and higher up moved out of the area, including my manager. We've hired ICs, management and upper management and they work remotely, from other states. It opened up the pool of applicants to lots of people who didn't want to move to the Bay Area for many reasons (e.g. super expensive here, high taxes, friends, family, etc.)
I live in the SF Bay Area. You do know how much it is to rent or buy a place here, right?
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The people on this thread (and in general on MR) that hate other folks having the ability to work remotely just always seems like sour grapes to me. Like, to them, sorry you have to be miserable going into the office, but you should be advocating for not needing to go in, not advocating for the rest of the world to be miserable too.
I’m sorry, are you claiming that being forced to work 80 hrs/week is standard practice in NY? If you are I’ll just note I’m from NYC, and you’re full of it. If I’m miss-reading my apologies
He’s paying 3 mos severance, and since it’s a layoff everyone qualifies for unemployment too
I'm sure the Captain of the Titanic thought something similar...
100% correct. The rats jumping ship at the first sigh of actual work are really just dead weight anyway.
Yes, and most, if not all, these people are exempt. How do I know? I have been most of my career.
Twitter hasn’t been exactly profitable.
Let see if the next big shock is Twitter moving out of California.
Found a person that knows nothing about skilled talent. They are already trying to get people not to leave or come back.
Since you have no idea what you're talking about...
The difference between an exempt employee and a non-exempt employee is that non-exempt employees are entitled to overtime pay. Exempt employees, on the other hand, do not qualify for overtime pay. (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nonexempt-employee.asp)
Anyone remember this guy (and his controversial management style)?
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