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"To the hard working (current and former) Tweeps out there who made all this happen: Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this place " Tweeps? Is that really a term of endearment they refer to each other as? Really?
Twitter's consumer product team is truly awful and have just made the product more and more miserable to use, so I don't cry too much about the change in leadership. Having said that, firing someone on paternity leave is terrible and would be rightly illegal in many countries.
Twitter's consumer product team is truly awful and have just made the product more and more miserable to use, so I don't cry too much about the change in leadership. Having said that, firing someone on paternity leave is terrible and would be rightly illegal in many countries.
Firing someone for being on paternity leave is definitely illegal in most places, but laying off executives and high level business folks before a transition at the top isn't illegal. I wonder if being on paternity leave is a "get out of layoffs free" card where you simply cannot be laid off with others while you're out.
It’s that he was fired when he happened to be on paternity leave.
But at the end of the day, isn’t it another form of paid leave?
So if he was paid out in advance for that time off would that fulfill the company’s obligations?
Genuinely asking, I am neutral on this since I don’t know the intents involved.
Letting people go while they’re on maternity or paternity leave us not cool.
> I’m just now learning that Parag fired Kayvon while he was on paternity leave, which is truly awful. > Parag is on his way out too. Why is he firing his product leaders during his lame-duck period? https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1524790595968901122
At least now the guy can 'extend' his paternity leave freely.
Literally head of product at Twitter, and still not enough clout to have paternity leave respected.
It’s sort of the opposite. A low level IC would not be called while on leave to be fired. But when the company needs a change of excecutive leadership, they aren’t going to wait months because you had a baby. I’m sure he’s being paid through the end of his leave period and besides is compensated in the millions.
Why is Parag making any major changes at this point? What "new vision" is he going to execute in his last few months at the company before Elon comes in and torpedoes it anyways?
I'd be shocked if these changes weren't Musk's
OT but one thing I've noticed is that Twitter has scaled back its aggressive modal/login prompt when viewing the site without being logged in. This seems to have occurred recently. It seems like it would have nothing to do with the acquisition talks but, curiously, it coincided with them.