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

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Post by plasticchris »

dragonwriter wrote: post #745
danans wrote: post #301

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> Wouldn't it make the most sense to announce those decisions before making layoffs? Let people self select whether they want to stay and work for you and then make your layoffs after to ensure all teams are properly staffed. He's got huge debt and declining revenue - both of his own making - so he doesn't have time for employees to self-select based on minor incentives. He has to strip down the car fast while someho…

> He also wants to recreate the place per his own vision, so it makes sense to get rid of as many people carrying the previous culture as you can and then start hiring as necessary with the kind of people you want So, he's destroying all of the institutional knowledge, the brand image, and the existing business relationships, while pivoting to a radically different market. He wanted a fresh startup to sink $44 billio…

Elon is used to taking advantage of the intrinsic motivation of employees (you get to save the environment/explore space/etc. So cool!)

No one (or very few) will feel this way about twitter and be willing to work themselves to death in the way he’s come to expect.

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Post by narrator »

jesuscript wrote: post #273
slg wrote: post #208

Let's say you run a company and you want to reduce staff. Let's also say you want to make an unpopular decision (or multiple unpopular decisions) that you know will drive a certain percentage of your staff to leave the company. Wouldn't it make the most sense to announce those decisions before making layoffs? Let people self select whether they want to stay and work for you and then make your layoffs after to ensure…

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This is like saying in 1941 Stalin signed the non-aggression pact because he wanted Hitler to destroy Russia. Capable narcissists are in it for the glory. It's only toxic narcissists, who are not good at anything, that like to destroy.

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Post by dboreham »

whacim wrote: post #526
slg wrote: post #208

Let's say you run a company and you want to reduce staff. Let's also say you want to make an unpopular decision (or multiple unpopular decisions) that you know will drive a certain percentage of your staff to leave the company. Wouldn't it make the most sense to announce those decisions before making layoffs? Let people self select whether they want to stay and work for you and then make your layoffs after to ensure…

I wonder if there is some sort of tax strategy Musk can implement if Twitter goes under? Might be more valuable dead than alive to him.

The Trump doctrine?

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Post by zen21 »

CrimpCity wrote: post #336
SkyPuncher wrote: post #313

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What has Twitter innovated on in the past decade? While I don't agree with the way Elon has been making this move, it's sure looking like he's trying to clear the place out so he can establish a new culture. These policy changes are likely to scare mobile, top-performers off to other companies. This likely clears out a lot of internal dissent and heal digging to make room for new "top performers". I wouldn't be shock…

> What has Twitter innovated on in the past decade? They basically stole clubhouses’ thunder with spaces and tbh clubhouse has lost a lot of it’s shine. Now did Twitter actually innovate? I would say not really but they did reimplement the wheel and so far seems to be working for them. I’d say the execution still counts as being innovative.

Clubhouse lost its shine on its own. It simply didn’t scale on a social level and became a cesspool of crypto scams and conspiracy theorists looking for marks.

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Post by Laaas »

batter wrote: post #391
slg wrote: post #208

Let's say you run a company and you want to reduce staff. Let's also say you want to make an unpopular decision (or multiple unpopular decisions) that you know will drive a certain percentage of your staff to leave the company. Wouldn't it make the most sense to announce those decisions before making layoffs? Let people self select whether they want to stay and work for you and then make your layoffs after to ensure…

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This is a really good video (albeit a bit too long, could have cut it in half), shame people on HN can't tell satire from reality.

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Post by loceng »

magundu wrote: post #896

People are talking about mass layoff in Twitter. But remember that,Steve Jobs did the same thing 25 years ago (after he rejoined Apple). Steve has fired 4000 people right way to reduce the expenses and hired people needed for his mission.

It's the fastest way to purposefully destroy whatever culture has formed (arguably poorly if the company is in its present state), and then can quickly rehire based on new, arguably better, direction; risky bet IMHO to bet against Elon with his track record of making at least more good decisions than bad ones, so far, with Tesla, SpaceX, etc.

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Post by ricree »

kyleee wrote: post #797
dragonwriter wrote: post #745

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He also wants to recreate the place per his own vision, so it makes sense to get rid of as many people carrying the previous culture as you can and then start hiring as necessary with the kind of people you want So, he's destroying all of the institutional knowledge, the brand image, and the existing business relationships, while pivoting to a radically different market. He wanted a fresh startup to sink $44 billio…

"the brand image" of twitter, lol, go on

It's still pretty much the go to place for journalists to mine quotes and sentiment from "normal people".

I'm addition, it remains a significant platform for informal celebrity and corporate announcements.

People in tech are pretty bearish about Twitter these days (myself included), but there are clearly a significant number of people who believe otherwise.

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Post by shalmanese »

kyleee wrote: post #797
dragonwriter wrote: post #745

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He also wants to recreate the place per his own vision, so it makes sense to get rid of as many people carrying the previous culture as you can and then start hiring as necessary with the kind of people you want So, he's destroying all of the institutional knowledge, the brand image, and the existing business relationships, while pivoting to a radically different market. He wanted a fresh startup to sink $44 billio…

"the brand image" of twitter, lol, go on

A lot of large companies have used twitter to announce some new product launch of marketing initiative. With the recent spate of fake blue checks like "Nintendo" posting Mario giving the middle finger or "Eli Lilly" posting insulin is now free or "Twitter Blue" announcing free twitter blue if you buy an NFT, I imagine many are rethinking this going forward.

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Post by itsdrewmiller »

magundu wrote: post #896

People are talking about mass layoff in Twitter. But remember that,Steve Jobs did the same thing 25 years ago (after he rejoined Apple). Steve has fired 4000 people right way to reduce the expenses and hired people needed for his mission.

That wasn't all that similar:

https://money.cnn.com/1997/03/14/technology/apple/

It was a smaller fraction of workers (30%) and was the third layoff in the past year, with the previous two happening before Jobs had even rejoined the company (and he wouldn't become CEO for 6 more months, though likely he was shadow CEO only 4 months later).

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Post by refurb »

bogota wrote: post #286
kleiba wrote: post #123

Prior to Musk’s arrival, Twitter had established a permanent work-from-anywhere arrangement for its workers ...for some definition of the word "permanent".

Really feel bad for anyone who went out and bought a house in another place or made life decisions based on this policy which is likely a lot of people. This is really showing that you don’t respect or care about your employees which is par for the course for musk. However i think what he is forgetting is that Twitter isn’t some amazing challenge to solve like self driving or rockets. I think you will see a very unde…

You'd have to be aware of the risks of buying a house somewhere far from the office.

Nothing says the company can't change their mind.

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