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Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by FredPret »

Ericson2314 wrote: post #61
FredPret wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No profit = no business = no pay. Huge profits = rich business = famously huge FAANG pay.

Wages and profits are separate. Sure, equity vested to employees blurs that, but stock prices need not track profits either! Employees may also rather coast than go through a stressful shakeup that quite likely won't succeed in bringing in profits. Even if employees do want the shakeup, they are in no position to agitate for it. This would be a purely coincidental alignment of their desires with the agitating investo…

> Wages and profits are separate Of course. But if profit is zero, wages will be zero too before long. Who cares whether your aberage employee likes profitable shakeups, I’m saying it’s in their best interests regardless.

> Please understand the basics of how Capitalism works.

My god, I hope you’re more pleasant in real life. We’re done here

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by Ericson2314 »

FredPret wrote: post #71
Ericson2314 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wages and profits are separate. Sure, equity vested to employees blurs that, but stock prices need not track profits either! Employees may also rather coast than go through a stressful shakeup that quite likely won't succeed in bringing in profits. Even if employees do want the shakeup, they are in no position to agitate for it. This would be a purely coincidental alignment of their desires with the agitating investo…

> Wages and profits are separate Of course. But if profit is zero, wages will be zero too before long. Who cares whether your aberage employee likes profitable shakeups, I’m saying it’s in their best interests regardless. > Please understand the basics of how Capitalism works. My god, I hope you’re more pleasant in real life. We’re done here

We're all more pleasant in real life :) This is the internet!

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by crocodiletears »

boibombeiro wrote: post #67
cblconfederate wrote: post #37

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Incidentally i hate the new redesigns of everything to have black and white buttons only. I end up constantly double pressing them because i never know which one is pressed. Same with youtube. Whoever started this trend should be fired.

I think their previous design was counter intuitive and we just got used to it. The changes they made actually makes more sense to new users. For example. In the past, they used filled buttons to indicate unselected option (like follow button). Now it's filled when you are already following.

I just joined twitter a month ago, after seeing their redesign, and deciding to follow a person I heard on a podcast. Never could make heads or tails of the old UI, and I thought it was ugly as sin to boot. The new interface seems like a massive improvement to me.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by cblconfederate »

boibombeiro wrote: post #67
cblconfederate wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incidentally i hate the new redesigns of everything to have black and white buttons only. I end up constantly double pressing them because i never know which one is pressed. Same with youtube. Whoever started this trend should be fired.

I think their previous design was counter intuitive and we just got used to it. The changes they made actually makes more sense to new users. For example. In the past, they used filled buttons to indicate unselected option (like follow button). Now it's filled when you are already following.

Here is the buttons i see now: https://i.imgur.com/eNcYkIM.png

i dont see the pattern

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by FredPret »

Ericson2314 wrote: post #73
FredPret wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Wages and profits are separate Of course. But if profit is zero, wages will be zero too before long. Who cares whether your aberage employee likes profitable shakeups, I’m saying it’s in their best interests regardless. > Please understand the basics of how Capitalism works. My god, I hope you’re more pleasant in real life. We’re done here

We're all more pleasant in real life :) This is the internet!

Fair enough, I suppose I got a bit carried away. A little good faith goes a long way

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by daqhris »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #46
ditonal wrote: post #39

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They were both fired because they were very expensive and a net negative on the company. Dantley has an enormous ego, and that ego led to a bunch of fluff PR pieces commissioned where he bashed other employees which started a civil war. The guy who did the Google comic for years went to Twitter and made a comic about the civil war and HR accused him of racism (the comic was not racist) and made him take it down. Mont…

Good to know. I knew Parag (the CEO) a bit from college (we both graduated the same year) and he was a very nice, humble and ridiculously sharp guy. Not at all surprised to see him rise to CEO and honestly, it feels like a much much better pick than your traditional MBA old-boys-club career CEO. Time will tell but I found it refreshing to see someone immensely technical (Parag won Gold in the international Physics Ol…

It's infuriating how information about his track record is less saught for and discussed publicly.

With what you've just added about Parag, I now see him as someone mistakenly judged, someone who's not given a chance or the benefit of doubt. Can't wait to marvel at the good decisions this stellar and technically-fit person will take as Twitter CEO.

Jack Dorsey may have selected the most logical executive in the board room with a decade's worth of familiarity with the company and its products.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by Akronymus »

gotoeleven wrote: post #30
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #23

This part caught my attention: > Davis, previously a director of product design at Facebook, joined Twitter in 2019 to lead its design team. He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive manage…

When you're divying free stuff up by race, you've got to maintain some standards. I believe the "sunglass test" was first proposed in one of David Duke's early books "Practical Segregation for Racists."

I can't believe that nowadays it is racist to try and not see race.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by nr2x »

nojito wrote: post #44
DantesKite wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scott Adams talks about how it’s a common tactic amongst CEO’s. The new Twitter CEO has also worked at the company for over a decade so it’s probably been planned for a while.

>Scott Adams talks about how it’s a common tactic amongst CEO’s. The comic writer?

Yes, this guy:

""" 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams said he felt 'abused' by Trump for failing to condemn white supremacists at the first presidential debate, but says he'll vote for him anyway """

https://www.businessinsider.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-...

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by zxspectrum1982 »

spoonjim wrote: post #72

I honestly wonder if a CEO who grew up outside the US is going to be a good steward of the uniquely American attitude towards free speech. Honestly, I don’t have a lot of hope for it.

Towards free speech? Twitter is not pro free speech. Twitter has long been pro free woke speech. In other words: Twitter is censorship. Remember that's the social network who allows talibans to spread their propaganda and hate speech.
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