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Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by cma »

sn0w_crash wrote: post #3

If my coworker tries to dunk on my boss in public, they’re probably going to get terminated. Not sure what the news is here.

Musk has said he's a free speech absolutist, and also he likes to cultivate an environment where iron sharpens iron.

This shouldn't be job-ending for someone who extends the first amendment to 'corporation owners shall make no rule abridging the freedom of speech, especially in their own town square'..

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by arthurcolle »

I saw this exchange a few hours ago. Pretty wild he got fired for correcting someone else's mistakes. It might seem trivial to confuse RPC with API calls to microservices (not sure why those were in scare quotes...?), but I mean they are meaningfully different. REST is not RPC. But whatever, what a wild time. And to the other person saying he "dunked" on Elon - not really, right? Apparently you can't challenge Elon at all. This is more like despotism than being a benevolent dictator for life.

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by SleekoNiko »

sn0w_crash wrote: post #3

If my coworker tries to dunk on my boss in public, they’re probably going to get terminated. Not sure what the news is here.

Does publicly correcting your boss count as "dunking on" them? I didn't see the employee calling Elon a moron or anything like that.

Elon made a statement, Eric told Elon was wrong based on his experience, Elon asked for him to elaborate, Eric did so, and Elon didn't like that.

If I'm working for you, and you don't have the humility to be wrong about a relatively small detail in public, I don't think I want to work for you anymore.

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by Comevius »

imafish wrote: post #6

Musk basically said: "Sorry Twitter for Android is slow. Our Android engineers are idiots." Who on Earth would want to be part of such an organization?

Eventually he will be right, only idiots will want to be a part of it. That suits him, he needs to be the smartest person in the room, and absolutely no one can tell him what to do or not to do. He bought Twitter because the board told him what to do. He also moved Tesla's headquarters to Texas for the same reason. It's a pattern with him.
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