Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

Post by boredtofears » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:55 PM UTC

kevingadd wrote: post #120

boredtofears wrote: post #89

I have to admit if I was an executive and I watched one of those "day in the life of" tiktoks from twitter employees that show them spending maybe 20% of their day doing work and the other 80% enjoying company amenities I might be considering tightening things up as well.

'20% of the day doing work and 80% enjoying company amenities' is ridiculous hyperbole. even if a hypothetical employee is doing that, putting them in the office clearly isn't enough to fix it since they supposedly put a tiktok video up saying 'i don't do my job' and they weren't fired

Post by kridsdale2 » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:56 PM UTC

manuelabeledo wrote: post #44

Lay off a sizable chunk of your workforce, and then make a sizable chunk of those who kept their jobs miserable. Genius /s

Post by Balgair » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

rgovostes wrote: post #152

> over the next few days, the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam. Would it improve the situation to simply require a CAPTCHA once per day per non-subscriber to tweet? I would think it would greatly increase the cost to operate a troll farm, but have minimal impact on real users (setting aside accessibility and third-party clients a moment). If it causes attrition because som…

Post by csmpltn » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:58 PM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #116

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…

Friday afternoon: 100% of Twitter's staff are competing with each other to find a new job.

Post by fermentation » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:59 PM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #157

I think that the NYT article has the much better lede from the emails in it: Due to resignations by 3 top execs yesterday, engineers are now likely to have to make sure that their code is compliant with the FTC w.r.t. the 2011 judgement against Twitter. As in, there is a good chance that individual SWEs at Twitter are going to be legally culpable for violations. Even if I am totally misreading that quick lede about d…