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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by ipqk »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #117
sio8ohPi wrote: post #109

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That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…

Musk said publicly the free food was rarely eaten. They had more people cooking breakfast than eating it. That’s probably exaggeration, but it’s probably true that it had little utilization.

You can't believe half the stuff that comes out of his mouth. He probably said that so he can justify removing the perk.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by marcinzm »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #117
sio8ohPi wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…

Musk said publicly the free food was rarely eaten. They had more people cooking breakfast than eating it. That’s probably exaggeration, but it’s probably true that it had little utilization.

Didn't the person in charge of the free food publicly disagree with Musk?

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

lapcat wrote: post #49
QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #29

A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.

Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

>Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators.

Smart, Reddit is comfortable with the fact it’s a glorified web forum, Twitter lied to itself that it’s something more.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

yreg wrote: post #123
lapcat wrote: post #49

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Do we know how many of those 7k were content moderators? Twitter also had external moderators that are probably not counted in that number.

Question is more why are they paying for moderators when Reddit has proved they’ll do it for free.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by yreg »

qwertyuiop_ wrote: post #99

Surprising the system appears to run efficiently without the extra 7000 employees.

Elon didn't fire _everyone_ so the delta is less than 7k.

Still, has it been long enough to evaluate that? The missing employees might be noticeable once there is some big issue with the infra and all the greybeards are gone, or once there is some big EU investigation and all the compliance experts are gone, etc.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by kzrdude »

gonzo41 wrote: post #19
pavlov wrote: post #11

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Apparently he’s looking to replace some of the expensive debt with new margin loans backed by his TSLA shares: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/musk-bank... IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democ…

I work with scientists. Everyone who got a tesla feels a bit off about owning it now. Many jokes are had about being a musketeer, and the rise of twitler etc. It's all jokes, but then at the end of the day, everyone else drives home in some other car and they don't know what the CEO said about "tweet of the day" etc. Yet Musk is all in everyones face all the time. It doesn't seem to be a winning strategy at the momen…

Tesla cars have been described as an electric car software platform, so I'm not surprised they are nervous. The car is not just what it is today, but depends on remote services, regular updates and foremost it seems like the car can fundamentally change its features based on remote software updates. It's concerning, suddenly you do not trust that software vendor as much as you did before.

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Post by KingLancelot »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #86
lapcat wrote: post #49

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.

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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by gardenhedge »

philliphaydon wrote: post #127

I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple. It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.

I thought we all had the consensus this whole time? It's never even had half the userbase that Facebook has had. It hasn't innovated in years. The web interface is awful to use. It hasn't been able to get any traction on any other product (vine etc).
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