Twitter staffers have called Elon Musk's 'hardcore' bluff, sparking potential mass exodus | Mashable.
Twitter staffers have called Elon Musk's 'hardcore' bluff, sparking potential mass exodus
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I'm tired of Elon Musk. I'm tired of Twitter. I'm just tired. Apparently, I'm not the only one.
Roughly 75 percent of Twitter's anemic remaining workforce have reportedly not agreed to Musk's new "extremely hardcore" vision of the company, opting instead to take the money and run. In response, Twitter has temporarily closed its office buildings, suspended badge access, and is trying to figure out what the heck it's going to do now.
Multiple sources report that the majority of Twitter's remaining employees did not click "yes" in response to Musk's recent email demanding they work "long hours at high intensity." The deadline for doing so has since passed, meaning that if Twitter follows through on the missive's threats, all those people will be let go with severance pay.
This would leave Twitter with a headcount below 1000, Fortune's Kylie Robison noting that many of those remaining are presumably on visas and have little other choice but to stay. Twitter previously had around 7,500 employees before Musk's disastrous takeover at the beginning of the month.
Though Twitter's mass layoffs have been an unmitigated disaster all around, this most recent potential round may do the most damage yet. The Verge reports that some vital teams will completely disappear, including the critical engineers who maintain Twitter’s core system libraries.
Basically, even the skeleton crew will have jumped ship, leaving Twitter to simply drift along until it crashes into an iceberg and sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic. This is likely to happen sooner rather than later, considering the speed at which Musk has been rolling out poorly-conceived changes.
The only one who didn't see this coming was probably Musk. Twitter's internal culture has reportedly become "beyond toxic" under Musk's rule, with some employees even hoping to be laid off so they can get severance rather than resign.
Official notices of termination do not appear to have gone out yet, and Twitter employees currently still have access to internal systems. Many are reportedly using said access to farewell their colleagues in the company's Slack messaging system, happy to nope out of Musk's dystopian vision for their future.
Meanwhile, Musk and his team need to figure out who is staying, who is leaving, and what they have left to work with. Platformer's Zoë Schiffer reports that in addition to badge access being disabled, a code freeze has been put into effect due to Musk fearing sabotage from soon-to-be former employees.
Twitter's offices are slated to reopen next Monday, Nov. 21, though it remains incredibly unclear who will be there to see it. Users have been foretelling the death of Twitter since before Musk walked into its headquarters carrying a literal kitchen sink last month. This latest disaster feels the closest we've gotten so far to seeing Musk's incredible shrinking company actually disappear.
Mashable has reached out to Twitter for comment, though frankly we don't expect there to be anyone left to provide a response.
Good, hopefully this acts as a case study for any other billionaire who thinks they can rule/manage this way. It's almost like he wants Twitter to fail.
ReplyDeleteHe probably has a short position on the Twitter shares.
Deletewhat shares? It's not on the market since he bought it.
Deletedidn't know that 👍👍
DeleteCouldn't happen to a nicer guy.
ReplyDelete*cue incel warriors defending "Elon"*
yep, you can feel them wanting to but they've not got the testicular fortitude...
Deletego to twitter and the amount of a** kissing for him going on there is nauseating. Some people are almost cukt like and worshipping him. It's creepy!
DeleteIt is. Honestly, the only "free speech" he wants is the kind that virtually licks various parts of his pasty white body. Ewww.....
Deleteew, I nearly got sick in my mouth there...
Deleteyou seem like a real peach.
DeleteWhy? Because I don't glorify lying sacks of crap who perpetrate abusive business practices? *shrugs* Well, okie dokie.
Deleteah, good afternoon. Are you here to simp for miskrat or just to throw juvenile insults?
DeleteFord Bezos and Zuckerberg doing the same thing...
DeleteStevens 100% agreed. The glorification of billionaires and their predatory work requirements needs to be addressed and people MUST stop defending them. We must stop glorifying these people.
DeleteHe'll get an incredible tax break when Twitter fails ... and he'll own the software and hardware. Sounds like a win to me.
ReplyDeleteThat's between him and the authorities.
DeleteHe probably pays little in tax related to his income, so the tax break will be a small percentage of the $44billion loss, and, his co-investor friends and capital firms in the buyout will look at the losses, the tax break is a small mitigation.
Delete"i'm just soooo tiredddddd" - journalist who wrote this. lol.
ReplyDeletemashable is obsessed with elon musk. the free market works in mysterious ways!
They should all leave! Let him run it all by himself. F around and find out Musk. LOL
ReplyDeleteYes . Never can work for this type of character. Non human
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Musk is his own worst enemy
ReplyDeleteSoon why haven't they left yet. Guess money is too good. Next they leave the USA as those that are yet to exodus since 2016.
ReplyDeletethey *are* leaving. En masse. Can you not read? 😂
DeleteLife without Twitter will be an improvement. Frankly, I am beginning to think that the healing of our society will begin when we end social media.
ReplyDeleteBring back MySpace
ReplyDelete#BeyondToxic
ReplyDeleteค.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why anyone is staying.
ReplyDeleteThey will quickly find out that they are nothing but a cog in the wheel and nothing special in that there are thousands of other engineers waiting in the wings to fill their positions its no loss to Twitter
ReplyDeleteThey will be replaced by people willing to work hard and willing to go to the office. This is a great way to filter out the lazy ones. Best move Elon could have done to allow the slackers to identify themselves.
ReplyDeleteno, they’ll be replaced by those willing to be Elon clones, work 80 hr weeks and give up any balance between work and life. That’s fine if you want an organisation to be staffed by zombies and there are enough people willing to do that. However, you end up reducing the pool of talent from which to staff your organisation.
Deletethis country has been working an 80 hour work week since Henry Ford invented it. Why is this too much for this current generation? 😆
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Deleteapart from Ford came up with the 5 day 8 hr working week. That equals 40. Seems history of your own country isn’t your strong suit.
DeleteElon will get what he wants regardless of your temper tantrum. I’ve been working 40 hours a week my entire career and I support Elon putting his foot down and expecting his employees to sign up to it or quit. I believe in hard work, not having a good life just handed to people.
Deleteand agreed he will regardless of your inability to differentiate between 40 and 80
DeleteBoss wants workers he gives exorbitant salaries to work hard.
ReplyDeleteWorkers upset they have to work hard for their money and throw tantrums.
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Deletetheir engineers have admired on camera they work 4 hours… a week.
DeleteOkay , leave it's not like there's litteral millions waiting around the world for a job there...oh wait there is!
ReplyDeleteI wager those jobs will be replaced by years end.
ReplyDeleteReally... none of us care one little bit.
ReplyDeleteBluff?
ReplyDeleteWhat's the first thing a new leader does upon taking over an enemy city? He gets rid of anyone loyal to the old regime. What's the best way of doing it, in a corporate context, that doesn't get you tied up in legal issues for years? Get them to resign on their own. So yeah, they sure showed him. 🙂
ReplyDeleteWhat usually remains is deadweight sycophants
ReplyDeleteOF COURSE WOKE TWITTER THINKS IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM...https://www.forbes.com/.../why-are-tech-companies-laying.../
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ReplyDeleteThe chief twit twat.
ReplyDeleteTesla selloff happening now... down 3% today.
ReplyDeleteHopefully all of the Wokes will leave forever
ReplyDeleteThen you can scream into an echo chamber just like on "Truth" Social! How fun! That's REAL free speech, ain't it, sparky? LOL
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