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

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Post by brailsafe »

slg wrote: post #53
pschuegr wrote: post #25

I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking. Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. But somebody who takes over the company and accrues…

>Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. And for the right financial upside. I completely understand going hardcore at a startup in which you have equity. But hasn't Twitter going private removed a lot of the incentive for employees? What is the upside for a Twitter engineer dedicating themselves to the company? Making one of the richest peo…

I'd never grind myself into the dust again for a company I don't have a stake in somehow. You have to be able to control your outcome on a big bet.

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

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Post by xrayarx »

bogomipz wrote: post #385
pschuegr wrote: post #25

I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking. Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. But somebody who takes over the company and accrues…

And it's not even just going "hardcore" his wording was "extremely hardcore."[1]. That sounds devoid of fun to me and possibly a euphemism for exhaustion. The World Cup starts on Sunday, it will be interesting to see if the wheels stay on for that. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twi...

Last sentence in the article:

Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment.

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

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Post by twelve40 »

dehrmann wrote: post #394
valeg wrote: post #54

Why Elon insists on actually running a company? He should hire competent people and stick to PR/bullshit thing. It works wonders in his other ventures, mostly. And no, competent doesn't mean Kimbal.

He can't. Competent people (mostly) don't want to work for him, especially after this fiasco.

so all the satellites are being launched, and the cars are being built exclusively by incompetent idiots?

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

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Post by paul7986 »

A lot of what he's tweeting and or replying to is completely fabricated trolling everyone stuff.

Maybe he's trying to burn it to thr ground to hide something ... pardon conspiracy theory but it's just weird that someone goes and spends $44 billion and takes negative action after negative action against your new shiny toy.

Though maybe he knows what and who is needed only to run Twitter and all the others were just sitting at home or on the beach working an hour to two a day yet getting paid $150 to 500K a year for a full time job they far from worked.

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

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Post by timmytokyo »

allen3 wrote: post #64

Elon needs to step down and remove himself from the company. No one with any sanity would want to work in that environment right now. Proper leadership would be one great step towards fixing all of these issues.

It's probably too late for that. The skeleton crew left behind at Twitter isn't going to be large or capable enough to plug the holes that are about to start bursting. The next service outage Twitter has will probably finish it off.

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

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Post by systemvoltage »

the_snooze wrote: post #411
m3kw9 wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really can’t argue when twitter works fine right now and everything is just talk till it happens.

It works fine until a cert expires somewhere or a hard drive fills up and there’s no crew to catch it before it kicks off a cascading failure.

What's going to happen is that we'll find out either of these are true:

1) Elon will run this thing to ground and site will disappear one day, and entirely stop working for days. Elon will call up ex-employees with 2x overtime pay to help fix it. They might not. It will be a major news event since most politicians these days are on Twitter and Elon's reputation will be forever tarnished. Other CEOs and leaders will join the mocking gang.

2) Elon will show to the world that Twitter can just run fine with 75% less work force and all you need is highly motivated, talented (and compensated) employees. It will be a direct testament to the fact that these woke corporations in SF/SV are totally dysfunctional and they've had a good ride so far from the adtech boom.

We'll have to return back to your comment and see how it ages. Stakes are high.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

r721 wrote: post #157

>Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned. https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593431420587761664

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

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Post by recuter »

kibwen wrote: post #250
barbazoo wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad he's having fun /s

I hope all the employees whose lives he's glibly and unnecessarily upended while having the audacity to meme about it are having half as much fun!

Does he or anybody owe them infinite amounts of money with no strings attached?

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

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Post by memish »

hintymad wrote: post #175

The management is worried about internal sabotage? My Twitter friends said Twitter has been having large exodus. CSL(core systems lib?) team, blobstore team, graph platform team, and revenue forecasting team seemed have all quit. I'm not sure how robust and autonomous Twitter's infra is. Hopefully Twitter will continue to function.

FTX had like 20 employees, how many could Twitter possibly need? /s
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