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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 »

dissent wrote: post #129
gw98 wrote: post #61

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…

The world's full of them though. I don't really get the passion behind the anti-Elon camp. It sounds personal. Isn't it just some billionaire doing what they do?

I can assure you my disdain spans more than just Musk.

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Post by gw98 »

Watchwatcher wrote: post #135
dissent wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The world's full of them though. I don't really get the passion behind the anti-Elon camp. It sounds personal. Isn't it just some billionaire doing what they do?

It does feel unnaturally influenced, I agree. Follow the money, I suppose. Who stands to gain from twitter and/or elons failure? We can speculate for fun. Certainly Bill Gates, with his half billion short on Tesla. He'd have the money to influence social media. We already know Microsoft games HN from when the CEO was bragging about it to shareholders. So it can be done. Who else? Oil and Gas probably hate him for Tes…

Not even slightly jealous. The guy purports to be solving the greatest problems humanity has in some kind of altruistic way. But really he’s built a company selling luxury electric cars to the top 5% which allow us to carry on our bad behaviour for a few more years in a new way. At the same time trying to crush worker rights and sell out to China.

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Post by lultimouomo »

recuter wrote: post #85
rufflez wrote: post #83

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Fired due to clerical error! That’s a new one, and quite motivating for the employee who is no longer fired.

It is absolutely not a new one. Welcome to planet earth. Read some Kafka.

I'm not sure if you're trying to defend twitter, but if you are, I absolutely love that you're doing it by calling it a Kafkian company!

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

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Post by recuter »

lultimouomo wrote: post #143
recuter wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is absolutely not a new one. Welcome to planet earth. Read some Kafka.

I'm not sure if you're trying to defend twitter, but if you are, I absolutely love that you're doing it by calling it a Kafkian company!

Somebody caught it ;)

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Post by jjgreen »

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?

No, if anti, then anti Musk. I'm not on first-name terms with narcissists.

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Post by theonething »

lultimouomo wrote: post #138
thordenmark wrote: post #69

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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…

Of those 4M/day, 2.7M are the interest on the leveraged buyout debt that Musk had Twitter take, they weren't there before! In comparison, assuming an everage yearly cost per fired employee of 200K, by firing 3000 of them they are saving 1.6M a day. Musk added 2.7M/day of purely financial cost, and then tried to reduce the damage by firing half the company and it's not even nearly enough! And this is before the lost i…

I wonder if all these commenters blaming Musk for screwing up Twitter and the layoff realize that the pre-Musk Twitter had already planned layoffs.

> Before Musk took over the site, Twitter had already planned broad layoffs, which would have affected up to a quarter of the staff, according to people familiar with the plans. The Post reported previously the company’s board was planning to cut thousands of jobs as part of an effort to save $700 million in labor costs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/03/elon-mu...

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Post by activitypea »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #115
kivle wrote: post #113

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You missed one: * Russia buys Blue for all of their Twitter bot-farms, giving Twitter tons of extra income, and Russia even better influence over US voters.

$8 should be plenty sufficient to cover some sort of identity verification service -- assuming possession of a distinct US credit card number isn't sufficient on its own. (Could make it so if you mouse over a checkmark, it displays a flag based on what country the payment for the account originates from.) Additionally, I don't believe bot detection is an inherently hard problem. And if every bot detected means the bo…

I am not giving up my identity to continue being a Don Hughes reply guy.

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Post by dchftcs »

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…

The company needs to bite the bullet to secure a short-term contract that stipulates certain things need to be done on a (expensive) fixed-cost basis. No reason to expect any of these employees to work the same way anymore, and they might even present some risk, so extra carrot is needed to keep them around for critical duties and hand-over.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

dissent wrote: post #129
gw98 wrote: post #61

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…

The world's full of them though. I don't really get the passion behind the anti-Elon camp. It sounds personal. Isn't it just some billionaire doing what they do?

Yeah but they're keeping out of the news at the minute. There's no need for whataboutism imo, they're all pricks, but at the moment it's Musk (and Zuckerberg) failing hard.
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