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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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I forgot about that.
And look what the billionaire genius thought about the FTC decree forced on Twitter last year:
Good.
God.
In which state? Being fired for performance usually means no unemployment. The 3 months severance pay is quicker and more painful to the company.
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"Musk and his team are "terrified employees are going to sabotage the company."" He is doing a fine job of that himself. Someone needs to tell him the days of treating employee like crap are over. Your best people are just going to walk and get a job where they are respected. What an idiot. They are losing their best talent. Who in all honestly wants to stick around and be treated like that? Taking away privileges, forcing them to work in the office, and threatening them that they need to work like slaves or they are gone. No thanks mate!!!
I’ve no doubt Twitter will be much stronger. Tim Cook needs to do this.
Musk thought that he could scare the employees to stay when it did the exact opposite as hundreds were reported to have left and took the severance package.
Hopefully, they can file for unemployment but Musk would probably deny them.
At least the employees have 3 months severance and time to look for another job.
Good luck to the remaining non-engineer employees. Hopefully they'll find another job soon when they leave.
It's not worth working for a boss like Musk who micromanages and insults employees to make them work harder. Musk created a toxic work environment all on his own.
He could've paid the $1B termination fee and walked away, savings $43B, but his Ego didn't allow it.
Now he's in slash and burn mode as users are deactivating their accounts, advertisers are leaving, the team in charge of Musk's changes have left and he's hemorrhaging money as the monthly fees are currently on hold so hardly any money coming in.
Musk did this to himself as it's all on him.
Hopefully, they can file for unemployment but Musk would probably deny them.
At least the employees have 3 months severance and time to look for another job.
Good luck to the remaining non-engineer employees. Hopefully they'll find another job soon when they leave.
It's not worth working for a boss like Musk who micromanages and insults employees to make them work harder. Musk created a toxic work environment all on his own.
He could've paid the $1B termination fee and walked away, savings $43B, but his Ego didn't allow it.
Now he's in slash and burn mode as users are deactivating their accounts, advertisers are leaving, the team in charge of Musk's changes have left and he's hemorrhaging money as the monthly fees are currently on hold so hardly any money coming in.
Musk did this to himself as it's all on him.
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Closer to 1,000 people quit today. Maybe core systems have no team.
I can’t believe it may actually be true: twitter may go dark and fail. I’m sure Elon is spending the day throwing money at anyone who can help.
I can’t believe it may actually be true: twitter may go dark and fail. I’m sure Elon is spending the day throwing money at anyone who can help.
Oof. Well, that’s one way for him to tank his own value more I guess. The FTC fined Meta $5B a while ago for screwing up such an agreement, Twitter itself couldnt afford a fine like that right now, it would have to come out of Musk’s pocket
I love how everybody here is suddenly a business executive and has experience running one of the, if not the biggest social media/news sites in the world. I see a lot of haters that sound real jealous and salty of someone else's success. Who CARES what he does to Twitter? Who cares if he blows it up and shuts it down?! IT'S HIS TO DO WHAT HE WANTS. Do you also put in your 2 cents when Sears or The Good Guys closed up? Lots of Monday morning quarterbacking going on. Not sure why so many people let his success or failures get under their skin so much. It's HIS money, HIS company, and HIS life. Stop always being haters and rooting for failure. Those Twitter employees that he is expecting hard work and commitment from....they get paid A LOT of money and have a ton of other perks besides just salary. Id' expect them to commit and work hard too. People are complete babies nowadays. Everyone EXPECTS everything to be given to them and everyone gets so offended over everything.
I’m fully expecting a complete twitter outage next week
In behaviour economics, we learned that the number of employees doing most of the work in a team or company can be calculated by the square root of the total employees.
So...
Team of 4, then 2.
Team of 9, then 3.
Team of 16, then 4.
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Team of 100, only 10.
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Team of 10,000, only 100. <-- This is approximately the scale of Twitter before Elon.
I would keep firing and shed the deadweight.
The difficult part is to keep the best employees and let go the bad ones. One thing you can never do is to lower compensation. This will only drive away the best, who got options. The only alternative is firing and trimming all the time.
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Twitter became a political pawn when "he who shall not be named" (orange face) used it to create threats online businesses and countries. Ah the bad old days...😒
Musk just brought in George Hotz to join on this "Twitter 2.0" project, and if you know the significance of this, you won't be calling Elon stupid.
Sunday. my money is on.
And someone needs to start a YouTube channel of a head of lettuce and a photo of a blue bird and see which on last longer.
I am an expert in this, literally. My career is as a senior engineer in devops automation and infrastructure for large scale enterprise SaaS products. So I say this as an expert: what musk is doing is going to completely tank the ability for twitter to function
As for why to care? Outside anything else a lot of folks, including friends and acquaintances of a lot of folks on this forum, are getting their lives upended right now. Also the industry as a whole is waffling between headdesking and eating popcorn at the insanity. It’s like a trainwreck, I cant stop watching
MuskRumors.net is still available... For Sale 
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To me, I am a student of history and there have been just a few bigger business disasters as this one will end up being.
ALL OF IT SELF-INFLICTED.
ALL OF IT SELF-INFLICTED.
At this point, those remaining should look at jumping ship as well. Tons of work, plus fewer people to carry the workload means more crap for everyone to shoulder.
I just lost a lot of respect for him, but also he didnt actually rejoin twitter, he’s just commenting. Musk did ping him but that doesnt mean he’s actually going back
EDIT: Also probably couldnt be rehired now anyway given there’s pretty much no HR dept left 🤣
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Well the former employees could go and build their own Twitter and call it Flitter and use a butterfly logo.🦋
Others were told something similar and have built very good alternatives not relying on the old infrastructure.
🦋Others were told something similar and have built very good alternatives not relying on the old infrastructure.
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