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https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589075543420325888
"sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday."
While I totally sympathize with the schadenfreude, I won't be surprised if Elon himself fully expected to do this. They still end up with fewer workers than they had before and now know for certain they people they hired back were indeed important for day-to-day functioning. Faster process than going through each employee's job function individually. And I won't be surprised if the severance terms were structured suc…
Oh c'mon, this is not an Elon galaxy brain move. They could've just slowly laid off people instead. And no, people got fired on the spot, some with dubious cause and against state labor laws.
While I totally sympathize with the schadenfreude, I won't be surprised if Elon himself fully expected to do this. They still end up with fewer workers than they had before and now know for certain they people they hired back were indeed important for day-to-day functioning. Faster process than going through each employee's job function individually. And I won't be surprised if the severance terms were structured suc…
Oh c'mon, this is not an Elon galaxy brain move. They could've just slowly laid off people instead. And no, people got fired on the spot, some with dubious cause and against state labor laws.
I see it as a healthy sign that Twitter management are rapidly identifying and rectifying any missteps.
some additional context, they don't seem picky about who can return either: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589075543420325888 "sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh c'mon, this is not an Elon galaxy brain move. They could've just slowly laid off people instead. And no, people got fired on the spot, some with dubious cause and against state labor laws.
A slow layoff is terrible for morale. Much better to cut deep then bump the salaries/reward the ones that stay. A drawn-out layoff is a great way to lose top talent as uncertainty is stressful and they will begin interviewing elsewhere.
Surely it would have been more remarkable if a company lays off 3,700 employees and exactly zero mistakes are made. A company like Twitter is impossibly complex, and it's very likely that some number of people are legitimately important, but their importance cannot be seen from a top-down view. I see it as a healthy sign that Twitter management are rapidly identifying and rectifying any missteps.
If true not surprised. It’s also not a thing that is unique to Twitter.
True, but few ceos make a big public stink about how overstuffed the company is, abruptly and arbitrarily fire half the staff a few days in, with almost no notice, then are like oh wait…
He didn't do it on the same day, while carrying a sink into the office.
Elon is a showman. Constantly overpromising on things that don't exist.
In this case, he's allowed himself to be fooled by his cheering twitter fanbase. But it's not as real as he thinks.