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Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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how are too many making it if none of them are making it?

>none of them are making it You do realize you're commenting on a story about Twitter that made it, right? Which is proof by counterexample that the statement is false.

It made it after he made the comment.

Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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Interesting that none of these twitter articles are making it to the front page.

That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is: Too many are making it.

Twitter is collapsing so quickly and in such spectacular fashion that it would probably be better to have some sort of permathread that consolidates the latest updates on Twitter.

At the rate it's going, Twitter may be spared all of the lawsuits coming its way simply by virtue of not existing by the time the lawsuits can come to fruition.

Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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Is he working though?? It seems to me that he just spends all day on twitter. Not all that different from myself actually, except no one is writing books and stories about me and my mythical 100 hour work weeks.

I suspect he is working but probably has a very short attention span.

There is no way a person in his position has any time for focus. CEOs of big companies (especially in case they manage multiple companies!) usually act as firefighters and mainly mentors to top-management. They need to be able to quickly jump between calls, board meetings, press, Q&A, in matter of minutes.

Something very similar is also written in Cal Newport's Deep Work book, where Jack Dorsey's typical day is outlined just as a series of interruptions.

I guess that tweeting between these interactions is not that time-consuming for him, + he actually sleeps at the workplace and is 100% focused on work.

Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>none of them are making it You do realize you're commenting on a story about Twitter that made it, right? Which is proof by counterexample that the statement is false.

It made it after he made the comment.

Said comment was a reply to mine.

Yet, I only made mine after clicking at the story in the front page.

Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is he working though?? It seems to me that he just spends all day on twitter. Not all that different from myself actually, except no one is writing books and stories about me and my mythical 100 hour work weeks.

I suspect he is working but probably has a very short attention span.

It's only 9am and he's already tweeted several times this morning about random nonsense - including a complaint about congress ignoring the FTX fiasco overlaid over an image of two Rhinos having intercourse. Which is another misleading claim as FTX is being actively investigated by DoJ and SEC lol: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/11/17/the-failure-of...

Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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post #30

I've always wanted to work for Musk, but never felt like I was skilled enough to work on spaceships or cars... But Twitter? I am thinking about applying, so go ahead and quit.

I want to work on cool things, not specific people. One should let go of idols past their teenage years.

That's pretty narrow-minded and limits your growth potential tremendously. Oh well, sometimes I forget this website is dominated by engineers...:)

Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

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If you're a current Twitter employee and you dislike Musk, do no quit. Job market is super-tight and recession is coming like a freight train. So many companies are doing mass layoffs and hiring freezes. You will have hard time finding another job paying similar salary. No matter how hard things get at Twitter, at least you'll be able to pay the rent and pay for your food.

It doesn't matter how good you are, even if you find another job in today's market, you will have to take a haircut.

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