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That's not an acceptable explanation. They need to be assigned an acceptable one. As you can see, there are many volunteers assigning them.
sorry I dont quite understand what you mean by "acceptable one" and "give them one". Which one are you referring to?
I am amazed by how polarizing this seems to be. Some of my best memories are from previous startups with this exact 1am energy. This is how shared mental models are built, shit gets done, and shared suffering cements lifelong bonds.
AFAIK Tesla & SpaceX aren't known for great work/life balance.
Honestly, I like the picture of the new owner coming in and having engineers whiteboard the systems out to him and start getting up to speed with the company. It does have a nice feeling of espirit de corps to it. If he had started with that instead of fire and fury and a lame sink joke, he wouldn't have tarnished his image and the company so much.
But doing it at 1am is asinine
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That's not an acceptable explanation. They need to be assigned an acceptable one. As you can see, there are many volunteers assigning them.
sorry I dont quite understand what you mean by "acceptable one" and "give them one". Which one are you referring to?
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I have 20 years in startups and this is not normal.
Twitter has been a product for literally 16 years, pretty sure it’s not a startup .
But that's because I really enjoy watching weird shit happen, and there's so much weird shit happening there right now. It would be a win-win for me, odds are I'd emerge in a few months, maybe a year, with some great stories about watching a bizarre implosion of a foundational tech company as well as experience a billionaire self destructing. Or, way less likely, but possible I suppose, I would help that crazy billionaire reinvent the tech company and walk away pretty rich.
Lots of comments on how hackathons and late night sessions were fond memories for people. The difference is those events were chosen. If you are forced to remain at your company (due to visa issues for example) being forced by your CEO to stay at work until 1am is atrocious. This is not a profession where being at the office this late is the norm and it's not typical for the environment. Twitter is not a startup in a…
I really don't agree with what you're saying here. Why do you automatically assume that every single one of these people is there unwillingly? Why would they pose for the camera with Elon with smiles on their faces? You want to claim that not only are they there unwillingly that they're lying to everyone about their emotions as well. They had the option of leaving the company with a 3 month severance pay. And no H-1B…
As the comment says, it would be interesting to interact with the richest person on earth. Short of that, I have no idea why anyone would think it's fun or anything to be in that atmosphere. He could change direction on a whim and make you redundant in a second.
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Twitter has been a product for literally 16 years, pretty sure it’s not a startup .
And doing this for an established company owned by one of the richest people on Earth is… supposed to make this better?
I honestly do not understand why it’s getting the hate here, it’s like the least controversial thing he has done. Although I guess it’s on par for the cadre of folks with Musk derangement syndrome on here.