Menzo
3016
Yeah, that’s just a right-wing fever dream. It’s common for conspiracy theorists to assume there’s intent and a plan in every single little thing, and they tie together disparate elements in their hope that everything has meaning.
I really don’t get why people are so afraid of something just being random, haphazard, or mundane.
Also, working in commercial real estate, I use this pic every time someone emails me to ask who owns a building.
Menzo
3019
That idea scares the shit out of a lot of people, and is one of the main reasons religion exists. It’s human nature.
Maybe that explains why I’ve never felt drawn to religion.
Timex
3022
How big was Twitter before this started?
Timex
3024
Cutting your staff by more than half without really understanding what they do seems smart.
Well he is a Visionary Genius, after all.
strategy
3026
I see that the people commenting on this think that anywhere from 50 - 80% of the remaining employees will take severance.
80% seems insane - I have difficulty believing that is possible. But if we’re even anywhere near the lower bounds of that, it’s still insane. Twitter will have gone from 7500 employees to around 1500 - an 80% reduction - in a matter of weeks.
I really don’t see anyway this is survivable without serious breakdowns.
HumanTon
3027
CraigM
3028
Pass the popcorn.
Can Musk buy Facebook too?
Telefrog
3029
Why would you stay at this point if you’re not one of the H1B folks? Even if you wanted to move forward and be part of Musk’s “hardcore” bullshit, now you’re just going to be stuck handling everything while short-staffed and without a lot of institutional knowledge.
I’m reminded of the story of the lottery pool winners at this company that happened to all work in the same department. All the employees save one quit the next day. That one guy missed out on the lottery pool by being absent when they were putting it together, so he got stuck having to cover for everyone while the business scrambled to rehire.
Timex
3030
At some point, when you see everyone leaving or getting fired, the what nice becomes taking the severance before the business collapses entirely.
It is a compliment to the engineers who left if it doesn’t go down!
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You live in a superheated real-estate market in California, and your rent or mortgage is so hilariously off the charts that you have to have a high-paying job at a place like Twitter, and
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You’ve just seen Amazon and Meta lay off a bunch of folks, and are hearing rumors that Alphabet may do the same (if smaller in scale), along with some other companies, and realize the job market in your field is super-saturated and is likely to be that way for a while.
Those two things suck, but they’re reasons why people would stay. And yes, that Twitter workforce would have incredibly poor morale.
JoshL
3033
Well, I guess a lot of people didn’t sign the pledge, Twitter management doesn’t know exactly who didn’t sign it, so they have to close the buildings to prevent sabotage. Like you do.
Hmmm.
Seems extreme, but tech reporter so maybe?
Papageno
3035
All is not well in the Twitterverse:
Ninja’d!
