DoubleG
1972
Verified users are starting to impersonate others and they’re not getting banned as fast as they used to. It’s going to be fun on Monday when $8 lets any of us do this!
Firing 3500 employees at 200k each (?) would free up 700 million.
Regarding the process of the firing. It’s not that unusual to be given zero days notice with multiple months severance, all access revoked as the meeting is ongoing. All the more so in a large corporate layoff, especially where employees have potential access to sensitive inside information, given the risk of vandalism on the way out the door.
Regarding insurance, what I’ve seen in the past is typically 6 months coverage from termination, and the standard Cobra options after. I’d be surprised if it’s significantly less or zero here.
I think it’s a huge bummer anytime anyone loses a job, especially abruptly. But besides it being tweeted live, the actual process isn’t that unusual, and these people were highly compensated in one of the most lucrative sectors on the planet. Presumably they are still as highly skilled today as their pay indicated for the past year. They’ll be fine.
Thrag
1974
For sheer curiosity I looked at today’s tweets by the chief.
Dude’s hitting the bong and doing rails at the same time.
Dude’s making Lizz Truss seem like a strong, stable leader.
vyshka
1976
I’d say extend that to all news. Carlson, Hannity, and their ilk being shown on a news channel is as bad or worse.
Put Kanye West in charge. He’d be doing much better.
Thrag
1978
Ye can’t. He’s too busy with Parler.
Quaro
1979
Elon really out there saying he’s “everything we could” when he’s been in charge for a week, lol. The sad thing I think he believes it.
Aceris
1980
That’s kind of the point - the WSJ is now “out of step” with the current centers of gravity of media opinion.
Counterpoint: Very many journalists nowadays seem to think the purpose of the news pages is to purvey the facts in the way that best supports the editorial line. You can completely change the tenor of a factual news story depending on which aspects of it you emphasize and who you go to for quotes. And of course in how you choose which stories to give precedence to.
One thing I like about politico.eu is that while a lot of the reporters do have this kind of strong bias, those biases can be very different.
It’s not just this - Fox News (and other similar right wing sources) are also amongst the most egregious culprits of the behaviour I talk about above.
The point I am harping on is that the reason that this statement is false is not because CNN is less partisan than Fox (it probably is but I honestly don’t know), but because the people Fox is partisan in favour of are completely divorced from reality, honesty and morality. CNN could literally put the most favourable dem spin on everything they possibly could and would still be much more accurate than Fox.
The left can’t compromise with itself on this issue.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I was agreeing that being able to post without people just defaulting to attacks on the NYT or whatever would be good. I don’t see a screed there?
Ah, I see what you mean, though. My bad for not being clear. I wasn’t commenting on the rest of the post just the bit I mentioned.
ShivaX
1982
Perfect example of someone showing how Elon’s verification system will actually work:
That was quick!
Edit: though this guy was ahead of the curve, on Tuesday:
I would have gone with a cabbage this time.
How about a diced avocado?
ShivaX
1987
I’m already seeing various “activists” claim credit for “beating Elon” of course.
Also send them money and follow them to keep up the fight!
The reality is that risk-averse corporations are risk-averse corporations. These groups claiming victory have been around for a long while and now they’re pretending that the stuff they did that didn’t work at all is a stunning rout instead of the landscape changing on its own.
Yeah, Elon buying Twitter has definitely provided new fundraising grist for the resistance grifter mill.
I guess wondering about advance notice for mass layoffs was a good guess!
I’m going to guess that this will be an impetus for Republicans to want to revisit the WARN Act.
dtolman
1991
From the layoffs I’ve been in, usually as part of your severance agreement you wave your rights under WARN.
Otherwise you get to stay at the company for 60 days, and get paid to stay home. I imagine that those let go today will be given a similar choice so they are in technical compliance.
