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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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Shadow puppet.
I made a comment here last week and posted the news that Enron was laying off the Accessibility dept and said:
"Show me your values without telling me your values".
He's an abs. disgrace for doing this first.
I made a comment here last week and posted the news that Enron was laying off the Accessibility dept and said:
"Show me your values without telling me your values".
He's an abs. disgrace for doing this first.
If the Saudis (new equity stakeholder) want to meet in say, Istanbul, to talk things over, I'd advise Elon not to go.
The only successful companies owned by Elon Musk are ones that received truckloads of taxpayer money from the federal government. Elon is completely lost in the private sector.
Good, who would want to work for musk at twitter after an ultimatum like that?
Not sure what this has to do with Apple, but anyway…yea Elon, I’m gonna need a solid definition on your idea of “long hours” or I’m out too.
A class action lawsuit was filed over a week ago. Twitter/Musk didn't give sufficient notice with his mass layoffs as is required under federal and state law.
Twitter sued over short-notice layoffs as Elon Musk's takeover rocks company
The class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco and alleges Twitter violated the WARN Act.
www.nbcnews.com
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Or he’s just flushing the turds. Time will tell.
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Elon just talked about making someone else the CEO of the company. Few days ago he said bankruptcy is the option. I don’t think he knows exactly what he wants to do with Twitter.
Elon Musk warns Twitter could face bankruptcy as top executives flee
The company is losing $4 million a week as high-profile staffers resign, raising doubts that it can keep operating.
www.cbsnews.com
Musk says he expects to find a new Twitter CEO "over time"
Billionaire Elon Musk, who just took over as the chief executive at Twitter after buying the company, says he does not want to be the CEO of any company.
apnews.com
When did 40 hours a week in office become EXTREMELY HARDCORE?
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 suspect he hates corporate culture and this is a shake down to get rid of corporate culture minded types with the intended goal of taking twitter back to startup mode and culture.
Maybe I read too much Dilbert comic strips but as an example he's trying to keep the Alice & Dilbert types while chasing out the PHB & Wally types.
Funny, that’s how a lot of Twitter users feel about ll the people he canned.
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Knowing Elon he is probably flushing the 💩 turds using a sinkhole. That is why he was seen carrying the sinkhole inside Twitter HQ. Yup! All the toilets 🚽 were fired from Twitter too.
Based on folks I personally know who left he’s losing nearly literally all of the top people not stuck on there because of visas. In particular seems like entire devops/infra teams quit en masse today. It’s a garbage fire. This isnt business genius, this isnt “flushing turds”, it’s utterly incompetent “leadership”
It's a good thing Musk is a genius.
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A biz writer implied that as well, that a sizable chunk of people left are on work visas and can't just quit on a dime.
So now I have this mental image of Musk wandering the halls of Twitter’s HQ alone this weekend with a mop muttering to himself
Or... pay taxes? Maybe?
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Oh yeah! I bet you he is definitely having a sleepover at Twitter’s HQ this weekend. Wonder if he is inviting anyone over.
I’m just quoting these so they’re all in one place where I can reference them later when Elon finally fails 😂
Musk is like the human form of a computer virus. I wonder how deep this rabbit hole will go.
Twitter has a data privacy agreement with the FTC that probably puts a cork on that idea thankfully
The people who stay will be people who think they'd have a hard time finding another job. People with impeccable credentials and abilities will have no trouble finding a new job.
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