3036

So, work from home is good again?

3037

Free speech baby!

3038

I like that it will reopen on the 21st, just in time for the “hardcore” to work through Thanksgiving!

3039

I was on r/askreddit today. The answer was, one day, what is the question?

My reply? How long will it take Elon Musk to destroy Twitter?

3040

If they’re worried about sabotage, I would think they would have to shut down remote access for most as well.

3041

This sounds like the “massive number are taking severance” is accurate.

And yeah, I get that there are layoffs, etc., etc. going on right now in some companies. But again - a really good developer never has trouble finding a job. Sure - they might not be able to land that “dream position” in Meta or Amazon, but I’d be surprised if there are not plenty of opportunities for people with the kind of CV these guys will have.

I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment if I were in their position. After the first round of layoffs? Sure - think it through. But that latest letter is just so absurd and oozes so much contempt for the people working at Twitter that you’d have to be either stupid (and unfortunately lots of those tech bros do exist) or desperate to want to continue working there.

3042

A lot of them also have a nice cushion because a delusional billionaire just bought all their equity for an insane price.

3043

Also, the whole “click link to stay” is the oldest mistake in the book. The default expectation for people is always not to click a link (just check any meeting invite with a significant number of people you have ever sent), so things probably look even worse than they actually are right now. They probably have quite a few people who intended to click the link, who didn’t read the message to the end, or just left it in their inbox, or who meant to click but just plain forgot about it.

If they had even the remotest bit of competence, they would have had the mail require the person to click the link to request a severance.

3044

Or, you know, not tried to execute such large scale corporate changes via the equivalent of an elementary school note that says “Do you like me? Check one.”

3045

That too. And yeah, I know it’s too much to expect any kind of competence from people who have so thoroughly demonstrated their incompetence.

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3047

Musk is going to call a “do over” and pretend like his email never happened.

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3049

Oh, and they’re going to have to pay people more to stay now, too.

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3051

I don’t think that part was a mistake. He wants all the employees to explicitly be on board with his vision for the company culture; making employement opt-in gives a clear signal on that, opt-out leaves too much ambiguity. Of course there’s nothing legally binding to force the people who signed on to be “hardcore”, but at the very least he’ll be able to point out to any future complainers that they really signed up for this.

As for employees forgetting to fill it in or being unaware of needing to make a choice, there’s basically zero chance of that. I guarantee that this will have been the topic of half he internal slack chats for the last days.

3052

Never underestimate the ability for engineers to be completely oblivious about anything unrelated to code.

3053

This new “vision” doesn’t seem to be clear at all, beyond “do whatever this new dude says, even though he has no idea how our business works.”

3054

You’d be surprised.

I can’t exaggerate how many times I’ve had to ride shotgun on people to “click the goddamn invite” despite them being told over and over and over again to do so (on chat, email, and in person).

Many techies have the attention span of goldfish. The old canard about trying to herd cats isn’t totally off (and I’d be the first to raise my hand as guilty myself).

Or basically what @Menzo said. We’re terrible, heh.

But you may be right, and it’s by design.

3055