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Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

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Re: Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

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Post by gw98 »

How it looked in his head:

Swoop in to the sounds of Jan Hammer’s Crocketts Theme with his Tesla staff entourage, you’re fired you’re fired, sit down, hack the planet, job done, planet bows before him, free speech restored.

How it turned out:

“Um, boss, we’ve spent the last three days trying to get a build running in Jenkins. Might want to get the dudes you fired back.”. While all the advertisers distance themselves from the unravelling incel, racist, sexist shit show.

The guy’s a fucking idiot. Nothing else to it.

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Post by awb »

qeternity wrote: post #21
zzzeek wrote: post #11

Can't wait to see the HN "just give Elon a chance to put his brilliant plans in motion!" crowd to explain this one to us. Enlighten us please !

HN seems pretty anti Elon, no?

There was tons of excitement over the years about his companies transforming the world and his successes there have been spectacular.

But over the past few years he’s become much more vocal about current events unrelated to his companies. He has every right to do it, but whether you’re a cable news commentator or Musk, the more you weigh in on social issues the more polarizing you become.

Re: Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

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Post by pella »

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488224

see the top comments.

"Allegedly Oracle did this years ago when they had layoffs-- employees were let go, then asked if they wanted to return. Apparently, if they said no, the company considered the exit a resignation instead of a layoff, and would refuse severance. If oracle was then taken to court over the lack of severance by former employees, those employees' refusal to rejoin the company could be used to avoid an unfavorable ruling for Oracle."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488447

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Post by brigandish »

atum47 wrote: post #15

It seems that this website asked me to accept cookies with a Pop up that covers the whole screen (mobile) after accepting (only apparently option) it was still behind a subscription. Could HN parse links and put how many cookies each website is trying to force you to accept?

Turn off Javascript, and possibly CSS and you can read it. (I browse the web now with both off by default)

Re: Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

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Post by akmarinov »

BrentOzar wrote: post #9

I would love to listen in on those negotiations. If you’re reading this, and Twitter wants you back, I hope you ask for a contract with a year’s pay in advance, due before returning to work, at 10x your prior rate. After all, you must be one of those 10x developers if Elon is willing to eat crow and ask you to come back.

There’s likely no negotiations. More of a “could you come back please?” And you either accept because you don’t have anything lined up or tell them to go pound sand

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Post by BrentOzar »

onion2k wrote: post #27
BrentOzar wrote: post #9

I would love to listen in on those negotiations. If you’re reading this, and Twitter wants you back, I hope you ask for a contract with a year’s pay in advance, due before returning to work, at 10x your prior rate. After all, you must be one of those 10x developers if Elon is willing to eat crow and ask you to come back.

Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.

> Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.

Only at your old rate.

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Post by thordenmark »

fm2606 wrote: post #23

If I were asked back I'd take it (hopefully with an increase in salary) then I'd actively search for another job. Once I landed it I'd give zero day notice. Fuck them. I understand I could be potentially hurting coworkers by adding additional work to their plate but Twitter didn't give 2 shits about the people left behind and the work that they would have to take on. Why is it corporations can "layoff" without notice…

That is certainly a hot take. When a company is losing $4 million a day drastic measures are in order to save the company so the remaining employees still have a job. Having worked in tech for over 20 years and being on both sides of layoffs I can tell you how hard it is for the people making the decision of who to layoff is exceedingly difficult and heart breaking.

It definitely looks like Twitter was a hot mess and needed an amputation to save the patient.

Re: Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

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Post by awb »

vinyl7 wrote: post #42

From what I've been told, this is common at large companies. Lay off staff then hire them back as contractors.

California is one of the strictest states around the contractor / employee designation.

I’m not sure of all the rules but I think working more than 20hrs or getting the majority of your contractor income from a single source raises a lot of flags.

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