I always think about the $10,000 couch in the lobby of the Seattle Twitter office that no one ever sat on. Twitter wasted money on shit that didn’t matter for years.
I sat on it while waiting for someone to let me in when I forgot my badge… ;)
Twitter Office Supply Auction
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#232Heh, quite a few 60" LED TV's in there, with starting bid price of US$50. ;)
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Why is “great WLB” code for “ok to coast”? What does one write for actual great WLB, without the coasting?
There's no such thing when you define "coasting" to mean "work 40 hours a week plus unpaid on-call between 30% and 100% of the rest of your time."
They didn't though. One can still have the difference between putting in the bare minimum 40 hours per week or put in their best effort 40 hours per week.
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#234Pure speculation on my part but hard not to think that they are preparing to move the HQ someplace else.
Lubbock. Tyler. El Paso.
Places where real estate is cheap, and there are no democrats to have work rules.
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Companies do this sort of stuff all the time. Loads of companies sell merch, and even very brand-sensitive companies will sell old equipment for fans/nostalgia (see: Disneyland selling old animatronics and ride vehicles). They aren't selling it for 25 USD anyway, it's a start price at an auction. I listed my iPad at a $0.01 start price, but that doesn't mean I'm broke and need the penny :)
If Disneyland does that while shuttering 88% of parks and staff, would you have the same takeaway?
Disneyland does this when they close a section of a park to rebuild it into something else, removing most of that sections staff from their company in the process, so... yeah, kind of?
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>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.
It got them 44 Billion dollars, they must have been doing something right.
I predict that this will be the Tumblr story all over again. Maybe Apple will buy “Twitter” after their value is less than 1B in a year or something.
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#237A 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.
They do keep astroturfing on Reddit though.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
At a minimum, I'd suggest "office freeloaders" and "energy vampires" are indicative of someone not commenting in good faith.
It seems fairly clear that Twitter had at least some employees that were adding very little. Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views while ignoring staff concerns about child sexual abuse (per this morning’s news) seems like one example.
> Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views
I assume you're referring to the "Twitter Files" revelations* there? Because that showed nothing of the sort, did it?
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#240I 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.
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