Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by systemvoltage » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

dougSF70 wrote: post #40

He is ingeniously driving up engagement with Twitter by using Twitter itself. Many people want him to fail, expect him to fail, are willing him to fail. Past evidence of his failures had yet to be found.

I haven't seen any indicators of Twitter failing besides 2FA failures; but every time I read anything on HN, it is doomed to fail. I feel like some of the resentful people here will try to hack into Twitter possibly get caught and see jail time? May be they will do something bad because this kind kind of irrational hate for a billionaire is not normal. Hell, even Peter Thiel doesn't get this vitroil. It reminds me of hate for Bill Gates by far-right nutjobs.

Why do you guys hate Elon with your guts with such an intense passion?

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

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Post by snowwrestler » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

elunmask wrote: post #18

elunmask wrote: post #14

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If "most Republicans including DeSantis also support the program," why did Musk supposedly have to spend $44 billion to buy Twitter to influence them? This story makes no sense.

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

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Post by themitigating » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

hackandtrip wrote: post #34

tjpnz wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 outli…

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

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Post by memish » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

bluepoint wrote: post #15

> Twitter reportedly no longer has a communications department to relay information to the media. Doesn’t look good.

Why is that not good? Twitter can communicate to people directly without the media middleman.

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

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Post by alfor » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #27

GenerocUsername wrote: post #5

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.

80hr+ in-office work weeks with no equity and the threat of being instantly fired for appearing disloyal in Slack or correcting the CEO... sounds fun!

If you want money, work life balance, comfortable pace it’s not the place.

If you want to change the world, are ready to push yourself, work with the most dedicated people, it is.

It’s a place for very few. I would really like to work in one of his company, but I don’t think I have the stamina for it.

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

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Post by standardUser » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

GenerocUsername wrote: post #5

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 could see working for an unstable egomaniac if it meant working on something big and meaningful like space travel or green energy or ending ICE cars. But to work on a glorified comment section? Hard pass.

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

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Post by coolbreezetft22 » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

Jerry2 wrote: post #39

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…

The layoffs are so far confined mostly to "big tech" and other high-profile tech companies like Twitter and Stripe. After the Meta layoff news my linkedin was absolutely flooded by recruiters from smaller-mid size companies and non-tech companies looking for devs. As others have pointed out the laid off twitter employees have a good resume and will have no trouble getting interviews.

Harder thing would be getting same or better pay maybe.

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

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Post by sgu999 » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

beernet wrote: post #38

sph wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...:)

Depends on your definition of growth...

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

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Post by memish » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

GenerocUsername wrote: post #5

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.

Go for it. It's rare to see such a high alpha opportunity. It's like getting in an early stage startup but in this case they already have network effects.

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

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Post by systemvoltage » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

GenerocUsername wrote: post #5

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.

Yea, I have friends who work at SpaceX and seems to be doing just fine. The zeitgeist on HN is basically if you ever do anything challenging, don't even think about it, it is bad for your mental health. You probably should just concede in life, don't work hard, regress into resentment for "rich people" and make sure no one else succeeds.

What kind of a shitty place has this become? Supposed to be "Hacker News". Not a whole lot of hackers here.