And of course, why should they? They have skills that transfer just fine to any other company in town. Why hang around to work overtime and be berated by a nutcase?
One also wonders about the HR department.
I got a laugh out of “Space Karen”
JoshL
3080
I seems pretty amazing that he said “everyone who doesn’t click this is fired and gets three months severance”, but now they have no idea who didn’t click it and may not have any good way to find out. So now there’s thousands of people who have no idea if they work at twitter or not, or if they’re getting checks.
That’s some good management right there.
jsnell
3081
On teams without anybody left:
On his genius last minute retention plan for the most critical people:
Yeah, that’ll work wonders. Why, his entourage are all bought into the plan, why would the peasants be any different?
Dejin
3082
Microsoft Flight Simulator let us all know where we can find them if Twitter suddenly dies. I’m curious if other companies/organizations are doing similarly.
LeeAbe
3083
Basically my whole Twitter feed is this now. From government accounts to individuals.
Yep. I move that if we ever switch to a He Who Shall Not Be Named circumlocution for Musk, we go with “Space Karen.”
Timex
3085
The thing is, apparently during these meetings where Musk was telling critical people to stay with him on his vision quest, people were apparently literally hanging up while he was speaking.
Tim_N
3087
So will browsing twitter right now make it ever so slightly more likely to go down? Should I be pressing random buttons?
You break it, you bought it.
From the replies to the “all of Payroll just quit” thread. (chef’s kiss)
This also highlights that there is no Twitter competitor. No one else serves info like Twitter. Hence Twitters downfall is being communicated on Twitter.
It makes me skeptical that Twitter goes down as a business, despite this incompetence.
Tim_N
3092
Pretty sure “you bought it, you break it” is the correct order here.
Yup. We still have all the folks decrying Twitter on Twitter, and as long as that’s the case it’s not going anywhere in the larger scheme - short term technical issues notwithstanding. There’s simply nowhere for a mass exodus to go.
Alstein
3094
Oh, lot depends on how bad things break, and how long it breaks.
There was no Livejournal competitor or Myspace competitor either.
All creature will die and all the things will be broken. That’s the law of samurai
Twitter might survive this, but there’s a chance it won’t. Things will break up for a while, then coalesce around a few, but this time more folks might do a backup.
I was lucky to have planned for this two years ago.
I’m seeing folks prepare for Twitter’s death now in a way they didn’t a week ago. That’s going to make it easier for it to lose critical mass, and once that happens, Twitter is Myspace.
If, as we’re hearing, the engineering staff is completely hollowed out, eventually it’ll topple over. I’m sure there are smart people willing to work long hours at Twitter, but it’s gonna cost. Elon has pretty publicly blown all his leverage.
