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Notoriously overstaffed based on what? The fact that you've heard this repeated in different ways over a long period of time?
Based on the staff they actually need.
Need based on what?
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#152>My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it. I wasn’t really thinking about whether those changes were good for Twitter; I just really liked being part of that community, working together on a deadline. I even slept on a sofa in the office on Saturday night. It's not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a…
I thought about commenting on this. But I figured that people would just take the argument down the path of indirectly competing about who the most passionate hacker (tm) is.
Re: Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired
#153>My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it. I wasn’t really thinking about whether those changes were good for Twitter; I just really liked being part of that community, working together on a deadline. I even slept on a sofa in the office on Saturday night. It's not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a…
> It's not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a good thing, and we need to be more vocal about this
Just stop, please. There's nothing wrong with working long hours and people enjoy it, let them live in peace.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
We'll see when they actually start shipping stuff. Things tend to go smooth when nothing gets deployed...
Right in the article: blue check mark changes. And how a lot of people had nothing better to do on their own projects than to help a person in charge to complete changes.
Because blue check was released with no issues what so ever?
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value. Never seen any intellectual value in a BBC drama, comedy, or nature documentary?
> Never seen any intellectual value in a BBC drama, comedy, or nature documentary? The C of BBC does not look like the current practical meaning of corporation for or typical case. Being state-owned change a lot of things.
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#156It's fascinating how Elon Musk supporters on Twitter cheered, almost like a sports team, when the Twitter employees got fired in such inhumane ways by Elon Musk. Don't his supporters realize that Elon would do the same thing to them if they worked at Twitter? The stereotype about conservatives ring true - they don't care about others until it affects them personally.
Layoffs aren't particularly inhumane, they're common, especially after a change of leadership. If you want workers' rights, fight for them. It's bizarre to make it into a soap opera of judging the moral worth of great men . It's bizarre how Musk has been propped up into a surrogate for the bad aspects of capitalism, especially by an administration that just overruled a union vote through legislation.
GP didn't say "layoffs are inhumane", but that the manner in which people have been fired is inhumane.
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#157The "hacking" hook is simply that their Macbook went into MDM lockdown mode. That's completely normal for companies at-scale, and I can understand why they'd want to lock the devices before laying people off. If the opposite had happened, they'd be writing an article about how Twitter failed to protect their files and angle it as a "they're running out of staff" article. I still don't really understand what there is…
Notoriously overstaffed based on what? The fact that you've heard this repeated in different ways over a long period of time?
Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet. If anything, it's gotten better now that I don't need to log-in to scroll through someone's feed. Best change they've made in years, from where I'm standing.
But generally, yeah. I've heard a lot of people question Twitter's opex and headcount over the years, from HN to daily standup meetings. Twitter is a big company that ships a small handful of products, of which only Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Web really seems to matter. As long as they don't fire their sysops and iOS developers, most Twitter users would probably never notice a difference.
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#158> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing. > I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagues could also benefit from it if they needed to. One hour and four minutes later I was fired. Gosh, I wonder these two incidents are related? PROTIP: Don't distribute tools to facilitate…
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the same when reading those lines.
The hilarious part is they literally buried the lead in the last paragraph. Nothing says "our readers will definitely think this guy deserved to get fired and not read any further if we tell them this" than burying it in the last paragraph.
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#159>My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it. I wasn’t really thinking about whether those changes were good for Twitter; I just really liked being part of that community, working together on a deadline. I even slept on a sofa in the office on Saturday night. It's not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a…
A user on HN, kamaal, posted something that many on this site agree with: > Let's be honest this is far from what people call slavery. They are being paid multiples of six digit salaries, RSUs and work in one of the most happening tech ecosystems of the world. > I would love to be a part of something like this. Heck most of us would love to be a part of something like. > I kind of envy those guys working on these pro…
Just saying that you are “lucky” without considering the fact that you make money for your employer makes you into a simp for your employer.
So you’re privileged, you say. What about your employer?
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Normal according to who, exactly? Like where is your reference point for 'normal'? I've worked for companies at scale and have never dealt with these sort of problems before because usually there's an understanding that employees when laid off aren't going to do anything bad (unless you're perhaps cutting them out of severance and spiting them, which...). Do you have any reference points or reasons why you believe th…
One company I'm personally familiar with announced a layoff at a branch office a couple months in advance. When the main branch people showed up two months later to manage the layoff, the building was looted clean and nobody was there. Even the furniture was gone. Only trash remained.
Source please? It really sounds like a myth but let’s see your source