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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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Post by themitigating »

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…

If I was in that situation I would quit. I would take the risk to make him suffer. He's a complete pile of garbage and I'm sick of shitty people who never get punished.

Also he sent a letter that people had to sign about intensive work, if you didn't you get three months severance.

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

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Post by KVFinn »

Did Musk describe 'Breakthrough Twitter 2.0' in a separate message that hasn't been made public?

"Stay at Twitter because we're moving to 80 hour work weeks and cancelling Christmas" can't be the argument by itself, right?

It's got to be something like "Stay at Twitter because we're building exciting new project X, but we'll need 80 hour work weeks to pull this off..."

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

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Post by djanogo »

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 think Musk played people who quit this week, he used some trigger words in his email to sus out people who are not committed to the company. And the heard mentality kicked in and more people quit.

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

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 »

memish wrote: post #54
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.

They previously had a team whose sole job was to respond to requests like this. If they no longer exist and the company relies solely on Musk being interested enough to respond, media outlets will never get a response before the article runs. It's bad for Twitter, bad for the article, bad for the readers. Even if it's just PR speak, it's still a response that can be analyzed by the other two parties in the story (the author and the reader).

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

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Post by sschueller »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #19
giaour wrote: post #13

At this point, I'm kinda wondering if Musk's deal to finance the Twitter acquisition included some Brewster's Millions -style clause where he gets to keep the company and the $44B if the company goes bankrupt within 90 days.

About $2billion is owned by the Saudi prince with a penchant for murdering journalists. So... maybe?

And immunity as we just learned in another HN post.

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

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Post by zucked »

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…

I know of at least one company local to me who is actively trying to recruit ex-twitter staff. They'll be fine. We'll all be alright - we're in for a bit of a bumpy patch, but the industry over-hired, we let too many people hang out on the roof, and we need to redistribute. This is a perfect example of why having many employers of different industries and sizes is better for the ecosystem than having 10 mega employers.

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

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

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.

> past evidence of his failures have yet to be found

It’s right there on his Wikipedia page, he was fired from the CEO job at x.com and again after it became PayPal.

Not to mention the boring company, hyperloop, that time he called a hero cave diver a pedo for no reason, his relationship with his many children, etc.

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

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Post by pavlov »

It would be interesting to know what portion of Twitter employees are on work visas and can’t easily take the offer to quit.

I’d guess an international company like Twitter had several hundred people on H-1B, L1 and similar visas. After these voluntary layoffs it seems like there might be 2,000 employees left, so at least 10% of them would be on work visas by this napkin math.

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

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Post by PKop »

jcranmer wrote: post #33
snvzz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Website and app working fine for me. Don't really see this "spectacular collapse" everyone seems to wish would happen

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

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Post by crooked-v »

djanogo wrote: post #63
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 think Musk played people who quit this week, he used some trigger words in his email to sus out people who are not committed to the company. And the heard mentality kicked in and more people quit.

"Played them" how? They'll find another job easily (especially with three months severance) and he's left with a company that's falling apart.
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