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Twitter just announced it’s cutting holiday pay for its remaining contractors

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Re: Twitter just announced it’s cutting holiday pay for its remaining contractors

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As a contractor, I never expected holiday pay. Sort of goes with the title. If I'm sick I get nothing. How is this a surprise?

What exactly is your comment accomplishing? They were receiving holiday pay. This is common enough for a lot of contractors since it doesn't cost much and improves morale.

This isn't them not receiving something they never had. This is an employment perk they have had for years being taken away right before a holiday.

Re: Twitter just announced it’s cutting holiday pay for its remaining contractors

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is an irony in the world's richest man being a penny pincher with those less well-off than himself.

Is the worlds richest man expected to support a company’s billion dollar burn rate out of pocket? Everyone has been aware for months that the business would get gutted. The business remains at risk of bankruptcy. These are employees and contractors, they are not a charity case. And to also assume they are “less well off” is to suggest that they are somehow poor, disabled, or lack the personal agency to find a new rol…

Some people empathize with the working class over CEO’s and billionaires. Some people think in the end, billionaires will be ok, and ultimately are not being exploited.

> If we’re going to go down that road we might as well count how many janitors HP fired today, and how the CEO should have personally kept them on salary.

Agreed

Re: Twitter just announced it’s cutting holiday pay for its remaining contractors

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post #3

What do these people think “cost cutting” means? Every time something totally expected happens they make the shocked pikachu face.

Some people thinks it worth trying to make the world a better place.

If that’s really the goal there are a million better ways to spend your time and energy.
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