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| Layoff Emails Arrive as Elon Musk's Employee Purge Begins-Building locked and accounts disabled |
| 2022-11-04 |
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| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #30 Keep 'em!!!!! We don't want 'em up here. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2022-11-04 22:50 |
| #29 Maybe they'll all go to Canada. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-11-04 20:48 |
| #28 I suspect the severance package include at least 6 week of continual pay to meet the 'advance notice' requirements. No way Musk will let them even close to the family jewels code after informing them. Since several employees vowed to 'burn the place down' severing them from the company assets is a damn good idea. These people consider the code 'theirs' and not the 'companies' and will act accordingly to deny access to 'their' personal code. Next step: Look for backdoors and landmines and the like. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2022-11-04 19:42 |
| #27 Learn to Coal! Why yes. An excellent idea. Better than working in tech in 2022. Peabody Coal $BTUYear to date: +138% |
| Posted by: Clyde Shiter7236 2022-11-04 18:51 |
| #26 His company, his rules. Not my style. Yeah, I would have included the Thumps-Up dealmoji with the tweet myself. Learn to Coal! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-11-04 18:44 |
| #25 Speaking of Schadenfreude |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-11-04 18:20 |
| #24 Woke Twitter was a lefty employment scheme. Wasn’t run like a modern tech company at all. |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-04 17:31 |
| #23 Make that 25 years. < /bad-math> |
| Posted by: Nero 2022-11-04 17:16 |
| #22 Even if they were 100% objective and even-handed (hah!) that kind of 'curation' is a stupid idea, because it cannot scale. Yahoo showed that over 15 years ago when it abandoned manual indexing of the Web. |
| Posted by: Nero 2022-11-04 17:15 |
| #21 Breaking: Post-Millennial: Elon Musk Fires Twitter's "Content Curation" Team And Their "Human Rights" Team Twitter's "content curation team" -- the people who gather leftwing propaganda and shriek it into your timeline 24/7 I have a Schadenfreude hard on |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-11-04 17:12 |
| #20 If they move away from ad serving, the tech stack becomes vastly simpler. Then they only need 1,000 or so employees in total. |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-04 16:54 |
| #19 As tech companies go, Twitter has a very simple tech stack and operating model. Their payroll was absurdly bloated under the previous Woke exec staff. Do they even have their own SSP? I doubt it. Even if they did, you could build a bidder with maybe 12-15 engineers working for 9-12 months: maybe $20 million all in cost. That’s nothing compared to a new version of a hypervisor or anything similarly complicated. There’s no way that Twitter needs more than a few hundred non-engineer staff. Maybe 2,000 engineers maximum for scaling up and out. Musk can and should reduce headcount by at least 60%, probably more. |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-04 16:52 |
| #18 #7, if the Dems get their way, we're all gonna be mining coal. It can be a nasty business. Grandpa Mundi lost a leg to coal cart. Not long after, the family was escorted out of the company town. #15, yep, that's the reality, so your style really isn't a consideration here, particularly considering the style of the previous management which would look something very much like this: open bottles (1.75 ML bottles by the way) of booze sitting on workers desks. I know, I've worked enough projects for Silicon Valley software co's and seen enough including that which I just mentioned. As long as folks were punching the ticket belonging to the approved team, all was acceptable. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-11-04 16:30 |
| #17 Are these the same a&&hats who threatened to quit if Musk bought Twitter? |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2022-11-04 16:02 |
| #16 Remember how upset everyone at Twitter was about the Keystone Pipeline layoffs? Me neither. |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-11-04 15:32 |
| #15 His company, his rules. Not my style. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2022-11-04 15:06 |
| #14 "So let me show you around the office on a normal day at Twittter...here is our fooseball and pinball galley....this is our robot mail delivery named ROBBY; gender neutral name notice?...it/theirs delivers mail and quotes 80s movies for you to guess....this is our reclining room with complementary onesies so you can rock cry in privacy if you don't feel like it is a share day.....this is le cuisine, that is chef Wolfgang Puck, just ask him what you want but just to let you know, the shrimp are a 10-12 count per half kilo gram on purpose so we don't lose touch with the reality of things." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-11-04 15:03 |
| #13 A generation of people build on emerging technology and then retire. Then a new crowd of idiots roll in and drive it into the ground. Elon is going to restore it back to its original form. |
| Posted by: Sloluse Slutle9788 2022-11-04 15:01 |
| #12 Apparently those being released today will be paid until Feb 2. Basically knocks the crap out of the "six weeks notice" lawsuit that was just filed. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-11-04 14:59 |
| #11 Just before Christmas. To be fair, he only took ownership on Wednesday. And he’s been tweeting about downsizing staffing by 75% for a week or two – so that shouldn’t be any surprise to anyone. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-04 14:54 |
| #10 Most of these dopes publicly stated they would not work for Musk. Now that he is facilitating, it all seems terrible and unfair to them. If they did not see this coming then shame on them. And in most of these cases if you are truly capable you will land on your feet and maybe even be better off than before. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2022-11-04 14:42 |
| #9 Considering they violated the right to free speech, encouraged people to be hateful and even violent to those they didn't agree with, kept on accounts that actively planned violence upon said people, and worked with the government to all above said goals... The least I will accept is to have strips of their skin pulled off, then have them put in crow cages in the town square while they scream away their few remaining days and rot there for a year after they perish. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-11-04 13:58 |
| #8 ...or pick up one of those several Indian accents for call center work. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-11-04 13:53 |
| #7 No, Rex, time they learned to mine coal. |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-11-04 13:33 |
| #6 Musk to Jason Calcanis in April: “Twitter has about ten ‘managers’ for every person who codes.” |
| Posted by: Billy B 2022-11-04 13:30 |
| #5 No sympathy even after having been through the same multiple time - the software biz is like that. Time they learned to code. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-11-04 13:23 |
| #4 Abu, those people love our misery. Fuck em. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-11-04 13:12 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-11-04 13:09 |
| #2 Earned it, and if they scoff at religion well then doesn't really matter. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-11-04 12:59 |
| #1 Just before Christmas. Been there, done that. It ain't fun. Corporations like to do it just before Christmas. Not that there is any time that is particularly good to do it. I suppose it's better now than after they've maxed out their credit cards on Christmas shopping. But if any group of people actually deserve this kind of thing... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-11-04 12:42 |