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Musk To Fire 50% Of Twitter's Workforce Tomorrow

The SF Chronicle is reporting that Musk will be firing 50% of the Twitter workforce on Friday. In addition, he's cancelling the work-from-policy. All workers will be required to be in-person at the San Francisco headquarters. I knew a few people who moved to Idaho, Washington and Oregon who will have to make some decisions.

This might trigger an exodus, where the good employees will rush to get out the door, and find jobs elsewhere, before the market saturates.

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Employees were sent an email today, and told that by 9am Pacific time Friday, workers would receive an email with the subject line: “Your Role at Twitter.”. Those keeping their jobs would be notified on their company email. Those losing them would be told via their personal email. Twitter's headquarters will be closed tomorrow.
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Ynotisay · M
Damn. Almost 4,000 workers. And I bet/hope he'll lose more than the 50% he's firing.

He may think his new employees are all in with the con man visionary bullshit but he's wrong. And for those who were working remotely? No way they're coming back. Too many opportunities out there. And once most get a taste of remote work they have no interest in walking back in to an office.

Saw this quote. "Musk has previously said that people who work from home are only pretending to work." As one who has done it for about 15 years I have jusssst a little different take on that.

Hate the idea of people losing their jobs. Love the idea of him overpaying for a platform, spiraling in to bankruptcy and then going belly up.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@Ynotisay That's exactly it.

Also this dude is literally behaving like someone who has never run a company before and instead just playacts at it. "WORK 80 HOUR WEEKS, 50% LAYOFFS, DO MORE WITH LESS" is shit idiot bad managers say.
Ynotisay · M
@CountScrofula You're right. And that management strategy isn't flying with younger workers anymore. Particularly in tech. The "Great Resignation" was a real thing. He's been anti-worker for as long as he's been in business and this isn't Tesla. I know it won't happen but I would LOVE to see a company wide walkout.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@Ynotisay Right, and vitally, his companies have always been fuelled by massive injections of public money and investment on future returns rather than, y'know, profit from sales. His true gift was selling politicians and investors on a kind of future cool which has funnelled endless cash into him. This is despite most of his ideas being dogshit dystopian nonsense.

He didn't want twitter, he just had a fit of pique after he got his wrist slapped for making a lame transphobic joke because his wife is now dating a trans woman. But his attempt at a rugpull scam blew up in his face and now he owns a company that has always been on the brink of failure.

Twitter robs him of everything he's good at and maximizes what he's bad at. There's no investment money since it's private. It never managed to get into the public subsidies game and there's no real promised future to cash in on beyond just... twitter but worse.

Anyways what's important is this is extremely funny and my hope is this destroys not just twitter, but Elon Musk as a public figure anyone cares about.
Ynotisay · M
@CountScrofula Yeah. The whole thing reeks of nothing but a temper tantrum. Love that he overpaid BIGLY for it. I didn't know about how his ex-wife. Dating Chelsea Manning? Holy shit. Too perfect. I do know one of his daughters came out as trans.
The hero worship of this guy is something I could never wrap my head around. Like with Trump it was all so blatantly clear from the start. It really speaks to how much some just need a 'savior.' And they'll get screwed in the ass over and over and still hang on to hope. I just see it as really weak-minded. They can't see that the emperor has no clothes.