Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

Post by jurassic » Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 6:49 AM UTC

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>then start hiring as necessary with the kind of people you want. That assumes that people will still want to work for Twitter after all of this. Given that there is no shortage of jobs for engineers even after massive layoffs at Facebook/Meta and Twitter, many people are going to think twice about signing up to work for a company and owner that have a reputation for treating people as disposable trash. Employees are…

> That assumes that people will still want to work for Twitter after all of this. Just a data point, but Twitter is now much more interesting to me (as a place of work) than it was before. Which is to say, it went from zero interest to "maybe?" * Chaos provides opportunities to make real changes instead of being just a tiny cog doing what you're told. * Advancement is going to be faster in a fast-changing organizatio…

Post by sekai » Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 12:36 PM UTC

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I agree that there are pros and cons to remote work, and that it should be possible to have a frank discussion about where the balance lies. However, that is sadly irrelevant to this news item, as Musk isn't banning remote work because of any logical consideration of its merits. He's banning remote work because he's an authoritarian micromanager who believes that workers are to be treated like cattle.

citing some evidence for all the people who are calling you out and accusing you of making up these claims against him: > He calls himself a "nano-manager". source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-car-pioneer-elon-musk-... > In conversations with 35 current and former Tesla employees, CEO Elon Musk is described as a polarizing figure who inspires but micromanages to an extreme. source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018…

Post by nurettin » Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

Post by dang » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 12:01 AM UTC

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What's stupid is people thinking that someone who successfully rules over some of the most influential companies in the world is stupid. Reminds me of all those people who claim that Trump or Putin[1] are "stupid" where in reality they just mean "I don't like them". [1] You can be a murderous dictator and not stupid, I would actually wager a guess that those people tend to actually be cleverer than average. Some appl…

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Post by curious_cat_163 » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 1:27 AM UTC

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You are assuming that he is optimizing for employee happiness. I am not associating a value judgement to whether that is the right/wrong move in Twitter's context. I wish that we, as a culture, stopped harping over what Elon Musk might do to Twitter next. It does not matter. This will take some time to play out. I hope Twitter employees land on their feet. That is pretty much the only thing that matters. I don't have…

I bet a lot of people actually experience Schadenfreude at seeing these social media empires being toppled. The point was not employee happiness, but an attitude that completely ignores that the employees might know a thing or two about how to run the place. And plenty of employees are willing to put up with subpar pay and otherwise boring work if they feel valued for the stewardship and experience.