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

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Post by firstfewshells »

rhaway84773 wrote: post #609

I don’t understand how anyone here can be supportive of the idea of the richest man in the world coming in, immediately firing half the staff, trying to get another significant portion of the staff to resign by demanding they switch from the promised permanent WFH to working from the office in 2 weeks, and then encouraging them to resign by giving them a highly fishy spammy/pushing email with an external link to a fo…

That's where the visa holders come in. They have no choice but to continue working for Twitter or else risk deportation.

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Post by solarkraft »

alsodumb wrote: post #273
7e wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

I love how the goalposts keep shifting all the time - "Tesla can never manufacture a mass production car", "Elon cannot run a hardware company", "Electric cars can only sell when subsidized". The truth is Tesla and Elon pushed an entire market forward. Tesla paid back their loans while other car manufacturers didn't. SpaceX was not the first in the launch business - they were in fact the only one who attempted to bre…

As much as I've come to dislike the guy in recent times, these points are still valid. He did that. And it's something.

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

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Post by ffggffggj »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #624
ffggffggj wrote: post #619

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Out of curiosity, where do you tend to learn about this stuff? What sites/news sources do you use?

Mostly twitter actually. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/with_replies and tweets it recommends to me. I don't actually have an account.

For what it’s worth, your post is wildly inaccurate. To me it reads like the understanding of someone who consumes a lot far-right stuff and cannot discern between online talk show narrative and factual real world events. You might consider enriching your media diet.

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

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Post by consumer451 »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #602

So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections: * Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal * Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech) * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult * Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out * Unclear if sufficient know…

> modern liberals against freedom of speech

Can you please give me specific examples of speech that modern liberals are against?

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

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Post by hef19898 »

How does one follow a come-back-to-office police while being simultaniously being locked out from said office? Is this an employer lockout, the employer version of an employee strike? So many questions! Maybe one of those blue checkmarked Elon's on Twitter can answer!

But seriously, how can someone burn down something he just bought for 44 billion so fast and consequently?

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

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Post by toast0 »

dilyevsky wrote: post #196
fotta wrote: post #95

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The TLS cert expires on December 12.

There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed. I think the answer is “quite a long time” actually. Eventually disk/machine rot in DCs will take over but it can take many months or more

I ran certificates for a well known service with lots of users (and not many employees), and it was all manual until well after we were aquired. If you don't have very many different certificates, it's not that hard to do it manually, and it doesn't look like they have that many [1]. Digicert is pretty easy to work with on a manual basis.

Of course, even if it was automated, you still have to pay the bills, and if payroll quit as has been suggested in the thread, I'd be suprised if accounts payable is sticking around

[1] https://crt.sh/?q=twitter.com

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Post by ShredKazoo »

solarkraft wrote: post #615
ShredKazoo wrote: post #602

So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections: * Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal * Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech) * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult * Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out * Unclear if sufficient know…

> Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult Where did you get that from? He immediately started firing people, so when should they have done that?

https://twitter.com/rlycalm/status/1592636069224542208

Granted, I don't know this person is actually an engineer as opposed to a troll. And she doesn't claim that she or other employees actively tried to create trouble.

So there was an aspect of me reading subtext into her tweet + Elon's ultimatum. Maybe incorrectly.

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

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Post by wasmitnetzen »

convery wrote: post #567
outlawBand wrote: post #262

So...Elon bought twitter to tank it just to stop that kid from tweeting every time he flew in his private jet?

He announced that he will not take any action against that account as it's free speech. So need to find a new "gotcha" / narrative / joke.

He also said that comedy "was now legal again" on Twitter and then banned a bunch of Musk parody accounts.

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

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Post by solarkraft »

convery wrote: post #570
nso95 wrote: post #426

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Ok but what if they can't

Then the company can hire more engineers? Even if devs in SF virtue-signal on Twitter about how they'd never work under Musk, a competitive paycheck attracts outsiders.

I wonder how high the paycheck will have to be and how much more expensive this strategy will be than just slowly firing people.
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