All Twitter Offices Closed as Hundreds of Employees Resign

Post by anon291 » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 3:02 AM UTC

kccoder wrote: post #8

willt1979 wrote: post #4

I just kept wondering, why in the heck would you want to work there anymore? Is it this amazing devotion to Musk for...what? This just makes me think Musk basically got rich off of other people's ideas and hard work. This guy seems incredibly stupid.

He’s not stupid, he just isn’t as smart as he and all his sycophants think, and certainly not smart enough to overcome his myriad of personality and mental health disorders. Unfortunately for us, after ruining a perfectly fine company and damaging the lives of thousands of employees, he’ll loudly retreat to his lair to sit on his remaining mountain of gold, recharge his narcissistic tank, and then emerge to set somet…

Post by mikkergp » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 3:13 AM UTC

nomel wrote: post #9

mikkergp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It almost seems on purpose but that seems like a money and reputation to burn to what, defeat wokeism? Pave the way for truth social? Seems very high risk to assume that Twitter is that essential a source of that influence.

To try to steel man a mass cut to headcount, and increased focus, note the feature complexity, and time between them, in this history up to 2017: https://blog.interactiveschools.com/blog/the-evolution-of-tw... What feature set, between 2017 and now, justifies a doubling of headcount, since then?

Post by kccoder » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 3:21 AM UTC

anon291 wrote: post #11

kccoder wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s not stupid, he just isn’t as smart as he and all his sycophants think, and certainly not smart enough to overcome his myriad of personality and mental health disorders. Unfortunately for us, after ruining a perfectly fine company and damaging the lives of thousands of employees, he’ll loudly retreat to his lair to sit on his remaining mountain of gold, recharge his narcissistic tank, and then emerge to set somet…

Twitter was never perfectly fine. It has lost billions of dollars.

Post by rdtwo » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 3:28 AM UTC

soupbowl wrote: post #12

It'll be nice when hacker news stops being twitter news 24/7.

Post by Rebelgecko » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 3:49 AM UTC

arcturus17 wrote: post #14

anon291 wrote: post #10

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Because Twitter employees are well compensated and can apparently just quit and be fine

This, but unironically... Has there ever been a union for those making 200k+?