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Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by UncleOxidant »

csmpltn wrote: post #106

Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill to pay, with no one to keep the lights on or answer the PagerDuty alerts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? No time for silly "knowledge transfers", or "onboarding new team members". You jus…

> Play stupid games, win stupid prices

Prizes. Win stupid prizes.

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by kevingadd »

rdtwo wrote: post #38
jstx1 wrote: post #3

> Musk told workers in the email that he wants to see subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s revenue. Given the direction in which their advertising revenue is going, they might get there.

Seems dumb, ads pay more than users

Even worse, they're offering reduced ads as a part of their new subscriptions, so every subscription actively decreases ad revenue.

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by acomjean »

ajkjk wrote: post #60
yummybear wrote: post #11

At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.

Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.

I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round.

Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by csmpltn »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #121
csmpltn wrote: post #106

Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill to pay, with no one to keep the lights on or answer the PagerDuty alerts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? No time for silly "knowledge transfers", or "onboarding new team members". You jus…

> Play stupid games, win stupid prices Prizes. Win stupid prizes.

You got it, chief.

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by coffeeblack »

csmpltn wrote: post #106

Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill to pay, with no one to keep the lights on or answer the PagerDuty alerts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? No time for silly "knowledge transfers", or "onboarding new team members". You jus…

You stay home then. I’d go (if I worked at Tw).
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