Twitter is now asking some fired workers to please come back
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#2If true not surprised. It’s also not a thing that is unique to Twitter.
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#3Why not do something less humiliating and just go back out to the market for new engineers under a banner like
"Twitter looking for a new breed of engineers to build fresh original capabilities"
Or something...
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#4If 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…
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#5I suspect that they ran into something like,
"Hey, none of the batch jobs ran today because of DST changeover, and we fired the batch jobs team"
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#6I would assume this might have to die with WARN acts?
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#7While 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 such that those refusing to come back now before signing their severance offers, are considered to be quitting and hence don't get their severance pay. But IANAL so not certain of that.
Re: Twitter is now asking some fired workers to please come back
#8No surprise - there was no way for them to do proper planning within the short time they made the decision.
Re: Twitter is now asking some fired workers to please come back
#9While 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.
Re: Twitter is now asking some fired workers to please come back
#10I would assume this might have to die with WARN acts?
I'd assume Musk planned on just eating any settlement. This looks like the few people that are left and supposedly sleep in the building can't do all the things required to keep Twitter operating.
I mean, they fired their entire SRE team. That alone will cause things to fall over and be left unfixed.