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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 memish »

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!

They don't have stock?

Also maybe don't say your employer is a "petulant man child" in Slack or otherwise undermine them and you'll be fine. The idea that an employer should keep people that actively dislike like him or her is insane.

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

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Post by bagels »

coolbreezetft22 wrote: post #36
tjpnz wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Does he think it's not happening because there isn't a leaked play by play on Twitter?

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

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Post by sschueller »

coolbreezetft22 wrote: post #12

Seeing Elon flail about so publicly like this is just hilarious to me. I feel like we're way off track right now from his original purpose of buying twitter (more free speech or something??? then it was bots then 8$ checkmarks and I can't even keep up anymore)

Me too and I feel quite vindicated as I have been saying it for a long time that Musk is an incompetent fraud with incredible amounts of luck.

Edit: actually less vindicated but more happy that I don't have to hear from people how great Elon is any more.

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

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Post by rybosworld »

Moctogo wrote: post #72

Wild prediction: Twitter will continue to work as it did even after that ~80% workforce haircut. Make of that what you will.

That's the one thing I think Musk has been spot-on about: Twitter had far too many employees, many of them doing what amounts to nothing.

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

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Post by lawn »

alfor wrote: post #55
JohnTHaller wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Change the world? By working for Twitter and whatever whim Musk have next for Twitter's direction?

Stop drinking the kool-aid.

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

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Post by BitwiseFool »

KVFinn wrote: post #62

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..."

Working for one of Elon Musk's companies sounds brutal, but I can understand the appeal of burning hot and bright on something truly innovative. I would feel proud and motivated to work like crazy on something like Starship, but this is Twitter. I suspect Musk's strategy of appealing to people who want to change the world and be on the bleeding edge of technology won't hold up the same way as it did for his other companies.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

alfor wrote: post #44
deeblering4 wrote: post #37

Full self destruction mode will be ready next quarter!

I expect the opposite, massive growth and improvement in the next 12 months. There will be some hiccups, attacks and slanders pieces in the news. It will become the place where corruption get exposed if the government don’t manage to close it down. Quite a show for sure.

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

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Post by jeffbee »

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?

It's obvious why the despots of Arabia and Russia—both pals with Musk—would prefer if Twitter disappeared. Unlike Mastodon, Twitter is capable of hosting a revolution. Putin and MBS and the rest of them know they can pwn or DoS any distributed, federated piece of crap, and they can't successfully do that to Twitter.

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

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Post by jcranmer »

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.

The primary purpose of communications departments is to coordinate a uniform corporate messaging. Particularly when there's a negative story coming out, the communications department is going to be the one trying to explain away the negativity, and is likely to be more competent at talking its way out of situation than an individual is likely to be (see also the former CEO of FTX, who has more or less been confessing to fraud online in trying to explain his way out of the situation).

Given that a social media company is almost invariably going to be caught in complicated negative stories like "$PLATFORM was found being used to coordinate genocide against Rohingyas in Myanmar" or "$TERRORIST posted manifesto on $PLATFORM before $TERRORIST_EVENT", not having anyone available to officially comment on those kinds of stories is... not a good idea. Even worse would be if you decide to let a shitposter be the point man...

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