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Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Well then don’t bait and switch.

If they charged a subscription fee from day one they would have zero users. This is a valid business model

If you do a bait and switch, then don’t come with the “they deserve to get paid” bullshit.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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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…

This whole "diversity" fiasco is getting out of hand. It's scary to think about what destruction and chaos it might bring.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

#83

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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

Funny how capitalists (or let's be honest about what they actually are, aristocrats) always seem to care more about the appearance of civility than the impact of their policies.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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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…

Companies that encourage this sort of culture are crumbling. Nobody wants to work in an environment that feels like you’re walking on glass every day.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

#85

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…

Companies that encourage this sort of culture are crumbling. Nobody wants to work in an environment that feels like you’re walking on glass every day.

Any proof of that?

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

#86

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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.

He "saw" white, which isn't race neutral. It is often viewed as being a race.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

#87

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Companies that encourage this sort of culture are crumbling. Nobody wants to work in an environment that feels like you’re walking on glass every day.

Any proof of that?

I refuse to work at Twitter for its racist policies against whites

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

#88

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Companies that encourage this sort of culture are crumbling. Nobody wants to work in an environment that feels like you’re walking on glass every day.

Any proof of that?

Yeah, my personal experience spending every day of my life in the industry.
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