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Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by giraffe_lady »

rmatt2000 wrote: post #115

I'm a little bit confounded that Twitter's current culture is such that a large number of people contemplate sabotage as an appropriate response to changing employment conditions. I mean, maybe the company culture really is broken.

I haven't seen any reason to suspect or expect sabotage per se, where are you getting that? And if you did want to sabotage it, what could you do that would be more effective than what musk himself is currently doing, short of straight up shutting it down?

> maybe the company culture really is broken.

Well it certainly is now!

I could maybe see an internal group trying to seize it. It is a very significant connector of people, I can imagine how you could believe in it passionately as a product/movement/force in the world. I don't, but it's not a big stretch. And if you did, I think also that from that perspective musk clearly does not care about it in that capacity, and has done great damage to its power and potential. The pieces are definitely there so that a "true believer" could justify a takeover.

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Post by dmonitor »

datavirtue wrote: post #119
nemothekid wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's a lose-lose situation; I don't think Twitter's problems would be solved by engineering harder; and you will spend 80 hrs/wk where you can end up fired because people aren't as deterministic as cars. It's a comp…

Those damn pens. They are making some healthy people lose their shit when used a bit too heavily. I'm worried about those with PTSD and other trauma being "prescribed" this stuff, honestly. THC vape pen use needs to be studied in-depth. Dangerous. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757764/

I don't see the relevance

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by happytoexplain »

rmatt2000 wrote: post #115

I'm a little bit confounded that Twitter's current culture is such that a large number of people contemplate sabotage as an appropriate response to changing employment conditions. I mean, maybe the company culture really is broken.

"Changing employment conditions" is a supernaturally charitable phrasing.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by prawn »

mym1990 wrote: post #60
mongol wrote: post #2

How will Musk's failure at Twitter affect market confidence in his other ventures?

Not that this is at all significant, but these past few months of Twitter charades have erased any appetite for one day buying a Tesla, or any other Musk owned products. Luckily almost every automaker is coming out with their own EVs in the next couple years, so the market should be pretty competitive(in some ways it already is).

Seems petty, but I don't think it would be an uncommon response. A Tesla-owning friend has said a couple of times, "Elon Musk is the worst part of owning a Tesla."

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by justapassenger »

dusing wrote: post #122
techolic wrote: post #84

The next outage will have a good likelihood of being the last outage.

Care to wager?

Outages of complex systems tend to be complex. It’s very likely that institutional knowledge of how to resolve them is gone.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by shitlord »

BeefWellington wrote: post #8

Regardless of your feelings about Elon Musk as a person, this kind of behavior is absolutely crazy for the leader of a company. I can't imagine what investors who signed on to do this with him are thinking unless their goal was to simply destroy the company.

According to the tweet, the buildings were closed due to prevent employees from sabotaging things.

None of us know whether the tweet is accurate, though.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by lynndotpy »

sitic wrote: post #133

Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data

In my experience, this has stopped working as of at least a few days ago. I can request, but the button never fills. I'm happy I did it a few months ago, at least

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by minimaxir »

sitic wrote: post #133

Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data

Unfortunately it may no longer be an option as some have said the 2FA SMS needed to download the archive is not responsive.
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