Dude is a complete joke. Silver spoon all his life, now showing his true colors. Spends all day trying to own liberals when they are literally the ones that spend the money in the US.
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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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Salaried employees have benefits and disadvantages over non-exempt. Exempt employees don’t work for free…they work for a salary. The expectation is 40 hours min with no additional compensation for > 40.
I'm hopeful this would bring the end of the Musk cult, but not entirely sure. Way too many people would willingly be indentured servants/slaves for a spot on his trip to Mars - which with his management style would end in the first case of cannibalism on Mars.
I find this whole “Twitter is ending” very contrived. I don’t think ending at all.
Who said it’s the norm? There are just driven individuals versus people that don’t have a like minded work drive.
Like I’ve already written, they can stay and he gave them a choice. It’s not for everyone or even most people.
Even here in Florida, Chick-Fil-A is trying out a 13-14 hour work day. They say it’s for “balance of work/life”, but don’t try to tell me some of those workers aren’t going to pick up a second job and work 70+ hours to make ends meet in the high price housing market here in Florida.
Florida Chick-fil-A franchise offers 3-day workweek
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When you go from working 40 to 80 hours with no salary increase, you just took a 50% pay cut... I have been an exempt salaried employee for over 20 years at many companies. I know now it works.
Some of us are not in tech and we put in 60-80 hours a week just doing our jobs. I wish there were more family time but some problems in the world don’t happen on an easy schedule.
I guess you are unfamiliar with the concept of salary, or difficult times. Today I was supposed to be off work but I am at work because things need to get done. I am salaried. That’s the job. I work as much as needed. If it gets tough I can find a new job. I agreed to these terms. Sometimes it’s really slow and then I might work less hours. Sometimes someone’s kid is sick and I need to cover and work long hours. This is normal life for most people helping the economy run.
Who are you, or any of us, to tell Elon how to spend his money? And if you think only $44B will solve world hunger, why hasn't it been solved before now? Good on you for believing in Karma. Maybe someone will judge you on how you spend your money.
Interesting detail!
Sometimes CEOs and the likes think they are ever powerful, forgetting that their company is also run by workers. In capitalism, we’ve over emphasized capital and not only forgotten about labor, but have actively seem to hide labor in many ways that when something productive happens, it seems to just magically appear because of capital.
How about you give your employees that option and not force it upon everyone. It's possible to work hard for 40 hours a week... and here's a strange concept.. get PAID for working 40 hours. Some of us have a family and want to enjoy that part of our lives. If you want to work 80 hours a week and "get rich", thats fine, but don't crap on the rest of the hard working people.
And by the way, MANY successful companies are out there who don't overwork their staff.
Twitter is not profitable. He is trying to bring that to Twitter and it will not happen in one day.
Typically many companies (estimated at 50% of US companies)require you to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment. SpaceX does and this is the norm for Musk’s companies. So the arbitration forfeiting legal action they sign in lieu of accepting severance when they QUIT, is quite normal.
The workers he actually fired on short notice? That’s another story and obviously already has pending litigation.
Everyone knew that Twitter had/has much larger problems than content moderation. Twitter employees were told that, were they not to agree with Elon's work requirements, they would be paid 3 months severance. How is that not informing them not to report to work?
I AM skilled talent. I work hard. I am pay well for it. That is how things work in a functioning society.
Meanwhile, I found a person willing to make **** up.
Do you even know his history? You probably also bash Donald Trump. It truly sound like jealousy. Elon has worked very hard to get where he is. Just look at what he has accomplished. People like me don't "worship" him, but are aware of his accomplishments, and are grateful for his success and ability to shape whole industries.
Just to be clear here I cannot stand Musk. But here is the reality a much smarter man than I once told me, EVERYONE is replaceable.
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I was wrong. The cult of Musk is strong. Just this time it’s on the other side of the political spectrum. No doubt Twitter workforce was bloated and needed to be shrunk. But the way Musk is going about it is not thoughtful or intentional. He doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing. He’s winging it.
Good. Seriously, Twitter seems full of low-performance teams. Maybe it's just the difference between generations, but their lack of a can-do, get-it-done attitude and no sense of real urgency shows that management there was basically really poor.
Twitter employees were feeding off the gravy train.
That's fine and good until a boss with actual skin in the game takes over.
Twitter employees were feeding off the gravy train.
That's fine and good until a boss with actual skin in the game takes over.
I mean, look at all the replies of people that are not siding with workers in this scenario.
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