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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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Training costs would be HUGE in time and money!!!
Smh. Wasn't feasible lol. More like they wanted to just stay home and loaf and "work" in their pajamas and now that reality hit them in the face they're whining.New boss, new rules. Don't like it, don't let the door hit your ass on your way out.
This is the recipe to lose money.
"The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) reported that on average it costs a company 6 to 9 months of an employee's salary to replace him or her. For an employee making $60,000 per year, that comes out to $30,000 - $45,000 in recruiting and training costs"
They’re not whining, they left for work where the bosses weren’t asshats. That’s why Musk had his desperate “everyone who can code come here” meeting yesterday.
I would pay $8 to have been in on that meeting via Zoom.
Hey wait! Enron! I have an idea for you!
The Real Twitter, behind the scenes $$$ subscription!
I just solved his debt problem.
Lemme guess… you can’t work from home and are jealous and upset. LMAO.
It’s not an amount of people thing. It’s an individual level of time investment spent on a person whether you love or hate him. (Obsession)
They were whining. Musk told them they were going to have to work hard and they qq'd.
Wrong on every account but keep assuming. It's rather amusing to see
At least two individuals here are definitely obsessed with him, anyway my feed is mostly 90% back to normal, people are already moving on?
Let me guess, you watch Star Wars, get to the point where Vader says, “I’ve altered the deal”, and think “hell yeah, go Vader, The empire is the best!”
I have nothing against hard work. Just make sure I am being compensated for those hours with cold hard cash, and not some airy fairy concept of twitter clout.
And I no longer view crunch time as a badge of honour. It’s more of a symbol of a failure of management and a lack of planning these days.
What are you talking about? This isn't Twitter. I haven't been using Twitter since.
I used Twitter last night and it was operating just as it had before these people were terminated, proving once again that most Twitter employees were dead weight. If there are any crucial roles that need to be filled, it’s not hard to find contractors the very same day.
The reason why organized labor unions can exist is because they can prey on a certain group of people who allow themselves to be seduced by false promises of safety and security rather than using their freedom to develop new skills and/or seek better opportunities.
No one is entitled to a job. You have to work hard and compete just like every other living thing on this planet.
I have zero sympathy for the Twitter employees who decided they’d rather leave than to work longer hours. I hope they go through a LOT of consternation, difficulty, and hardship so that when someone does finally give them an opportunity, their sense of entitlement turns into gratitude.
….yes, the servers didnt die in one night, shocker. But updates and vulnerabilities will start to build up, hardware will fail, a rollback will fail or a build will go out with a missing crucial test, etc. things will degrade until enough breaks that rolling outages become common.
and that’s not getting into the rest of the business. Ad buys wont happen because the folks with the brand relationships left. Payroll will be an issue because the *entire* payroll team quit. HR and compliance problems will build because those depts are gutted. Maintaining the FTC consent decree will become harder because the security team is mostly gone, etc.
the fact that the site is still mostly running is the same as any given weekend, of course it didnt turn into a fireball overnight. The problems are a lot deeper
and new contractors dont have the institutional knowledge to do all, or any, of above without a lot of gearing up. Also they’ll be more expensive than employees
We can only hope that all the institutional knowledge that led to the myriad of technical problems, bad hires, one-sided censorship, and the billions of dollars Twitter was losing gets lost forever.
Twitter was a sinking ship. If Elon can’t save it, who cares? It was broke and going out of business anyway thanks to the collective effort of these employees, that for whatever reason, you seem to think was contributing so much to their “success.”
Hundreds walked out instead of electing to work harder. Let that “sink in”
I’m not even touching your censorship line, it’s basically the old story of white folks complaining that they cant use the n word, with the hard r, in public without consequences: internet edition.We can only hope that all the institutional knowledge that led to the myriad of technical problems, bad hires, one-sided censorship, and the billions of dollars Twitter was losing gets lost forever.
Twitter was a sinking ship. If Elon can’t save it, who cares? It was broke and going out of business anyway thanks to the collective effort of these employees, that for whatever reason, you seem to think was contributing so much to their “success.”
Hundreds walked out instead of electing to work harder. Let that “sink in”
On the money side while twitter wasnt netting profit they also werent imminently in danger of going out of business and had billions in ad revenue. It didnt need Musk to swoop in and “save it”.
As to the rest if I was told I had to double my hours for the same pay or take 3 mos severance I’d take the severance too. Those folks are the ones who can easily find other jobs. I guarantee you the thousand or so employees who took the severance on Thurs are mostly going to end up at jobs that pay more than they made before and also will be able to pocket a couple months of extra pay. Way better deal than sticking around and watching a manchild destroy something you’ve worked hard to build while you work fingers to the bone.
You are not accurate. GM did NOT pay back all of the money. They repaid most, still owe Canada and gave stock to the US Treasury in place of some of the money they borrowed and it was worth BILLIONS less when it was cashed in.
Ford took money too and has not repaid it all.
Ford took $6B government loan in 2009 — and debt still haunts company
Ford isn't alone in the struggle, but it entered 2020 reporting a much smaller-than-expected profit than its competitors.
www.freep.com
But you are HERE, talking about it. And like I said, "you sure showed them". You sound salty
Haven't really been paying attention, but hasn't Mark already turned Facebook into the next MySpace with Apple's helpful kick in the balls, and his obsession w/ Meta and crappy corporadelic ar/vr attempt which nobody else seems to share his level of enthusiasm for? Think Facebook is busy imploding all by itself. Plz pass popcorn.
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Facebook recent Quarterly Financial results was a disaster.... it tanked the Meta stocks drastically. Everything was a miss. Guidance, revenue, profits, etc. Meta/Facebook now needs to layoff 11,000 employees.
The only thing surprising about it? That Zuckerberg actually apologized for Meta's terrible predicament. He basically admitted that "I got it all wrong" and he takes responsibility for 11,000 FB employees now being layed off.
Mark Zuckerberg Admits He 'Got It Wrong' as Meta Lays Off 11,000 Employees. At Least He Signed His Name
That was a big surprise. LOL. I still don't trust FB or Zuck. But at least Zuckerberg admitted fault and he apologized (and takes responsibility) for 11 thousand employees being fired (they are all getting at least 16 weeks severance pay and health benefits). The nasty Elno didn't even sign his name when he fired over half of Twitter. Cowardly boss.
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All this drama also makes me appreciate Tim Cook's stable hand at Apple all this while. Sure, it was amazing watching Steve Jobs go on stage and announcing how they are going to change the world (and I still get thrills down my spine when I see him remove that MBA from an envelop), but multi-orgasmic stage theatrics is no longer what enthuses me these days, but watching a company continue to execute like clockwork day after day after day.
Every year, Apple commits to updating their iPhone and Apple Watch, 4 separate OSes (iOS+iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS), as well as updating / refreshing their growing hardware lineup. It takes discipline to keep everything running in lockstep, and I will take boring but competent over a firebrand orator any time of the day.
Heck, look at the state of the tech industry right now. Which company isn't imploding?
Every year, Apple commits to updating their iPhone and Apple Watch, 4 separate OSes (iOS+iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS), as well as updating / refreshing their growing hardware lineup. It takes discipline to keep everything running in lockstep, and I will take boring but competent over a firebrand orator any time of the day.
Heck, look at the state of the tech industry right now. Which company isn't imploding?
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