Twitter locks remaining employees out of offices after hundreds leave following Elon Musk's...

[AlaskaGuy]

I wonder if he will relocate Twitter out of San Francisco. At this point, it might be the smart thing to do. He should move it and hire new people in a new city that are motivated and excited about the direction he wants to take it.

This ^^ There's rumor floating around that he will relocate twitter to either Florida or Texas.

 

[Rocky4040]

For every employee that leaves there are 10,000 more willing to fill their spot. Musk is not worried he is thinning the herd of turds to get better employee's that are willing to work and earn their pay checks.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Yep, the real-people Alt-Right Nazis can't wait to come back!!!

Their exile / other hideout everybody was praising turned out to be as successful as any of Trump's failed businesses!

Alt Right Nazis = 'anyone who doesn't agree with me'

 

[brucek]

We will see how long it takes to actually build talent back up

This is where I really don't get his plan. His current offer appears to be all the hard work, risk, and poorly managed chaos of a start up, but without any of the upside. Also instead of being a promising seed idea that people can reasonably hope will zoom to success, it seems rather that his revenues and market positioning are plummeting.

Maybe even worse, he has signaled multiple ways that even if the new Twitter does bear fruit, he is firmly against paying out to anyone who helped make it happen. He tried to weasel out of his signed purchase contract until it was clear a court wasn't going to have it. He asked his team to rush a layoff to land just prior to an employee stock vesting date, until again they showed him that a court would make him pay dearly for it. He has just recently signaled that he feels free to change the terms of employment on a whim without any compensation. So even if you believed the company had upside here, and you received an offer that appeared to reflect it, if you have any sophistication you'd have to consider that you may be cheated out of it or need a lawyer to collect it.

The professionals he needs by and large are well-informed, have options, and whatever the pro/con of the Elon and culture sideshow around all this, most of them are likely to ultimately act in the cold hard self-interest of themselves and their family, which demands seeking employment from a reputable firm elsewhere.

 

[m3tavision]

I think there is a reason why no big social network apps/websites ever asked for any money from the users. I don't believe it will work. I just think this opens a door for a comparator.

But ideas are not binary or polar, they are not one set of ideas, but millions.

$8/month ensures that bots farm and kiddies with multiple accounts pushing their echo-chamber ideas all over the place... are neutered.

ie:
$8/month clean up the place and attracts more people that Advertisers are trying to reach... Adults.

 

[Loadedaxe]

This self proclaimed genius much like Trump is a numbskull. Good luck getting anyone to work for you when you publicly admit you want work slaves Willing to work hardcore hours. Hahaha best entertainment all year. Next up Trump being turned on by the GOP. Who has the popcorn?

yeah, hes so stupid he is the richest man on the planet.

 

[erickmendes]

I think users should delete their accounts too... Mass twitter boycott

 

[umbala]

Welcome to Twitter. You have to work twice as hard and twice as long to support a poor South African billionaires bad decisions to buy random stupid things.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Those poor twitter employees, being forced to work to justify their 6 figure sums. I feel SOOOOO bad for them 😢.
Welcome to the real world snowflakes. The rest of us have been working our balls off to recover from the 2008 recession, the 2020 lockdown, and the 2021 inflation crisis. Now you gotta work too, no more sitting on golden chairs in ivory towers complaining about ~isms and ~phobics. The bourgeoisie never think they will become the next proletariat

This is free market capitalism at work. Why would anyone work 60 hours a week to make $100,000 when there are dozens of other companies who will offer the same amount of money and only make you work 40 hours a week? Those Twitter employees who are coders will easily find new jobs because computer programming is in demand everywhere in the world.

The only thing I am surprised at is the 25% of the 50% that is left. I thought it would be fewer.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

I wonder if he will relocate Twitter out of San Francisco. At this point, it might be the smart thing to do. He should move it and hire new people in a new city that are motivated and excited about the direction he wants to take it.

At this point, he should just relocate Twitter to India like he did with moving Tesla factories to China.

That is one of the few ways he can get lots of computer coders who will work more hours for less pay and less benefits.

 

[goldman]

Food is up over 60%, for those of us who pay attention. Natural gas heat quadrupled. Electricity went up 30%. Vehicle prices up 60% compared to 2 years ago.

The "real world" is hear snowflake, time to wake up.

wow, he really thinks he has it bad hahahhaaha

 

[TheRealSCDC]

I love Elon. If I was gay, I would want to be his partner.

 

[m3tavision]

Welcome to Twitter. You have to work twice as hard and twice as long to support a poor South African billionaires bad decisions to buy random stupid things.

Musk derangement syndrome^ ?
40h or 60h a week.. they are still getting paid...! You keep framing this, as if these people are volunteers. Performance is part of ANY job.

You are just unhinged because Elon broke up the Social club and liberal echo-chamber...

 

[Enaks]

$8/month ensures that bots farm and kiddies with multiple accounts pushing their echo-chamber ideas all over the place... are neutered.

ie:
$8/month clean up the place and attracts more people that Advertisers are trying to reach... Adults.

“Meanwhile, those who subscribed to Blue Verified were often accounts promoting right-wing politics, cryptocurrency speculation or adult content such as pornography”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/16/musk-twitter-email-ultimatum-termination/

Advertisers are leaving the platform in droves too:

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-list-of-advertisers-leaving-1849751644/amp

 

[McMurdeR]

Musk derangement syndrome^ ?
40h or 60h a week.. they are still getting paid...! You keep framing this, as if these people are volunteers. Performance is part of ANY job.

You are just unhinged because Elon broke up the Social club and liberal echo-chamber...

Why stop at 60h? Why not 80 or 100? Let the self entitled snowflakes jump off, and we can all get back to the heady days of social media where we can use our free speech to be obnoxious and insult people who don't agree with us!

 

[ZackL04]

You don't seem to understand how salary pay works. The entire point is to work people more than 40 hours.

This is 100% the answer

 

[yRaz]

Good luck with that.

My 30 year pension kicks in a 55, I can retire if I so choose. And by retire, I mean get some fun job as a mountain bike mechanic in a resort town.

 

[fps4ever]

I see the left is getting quite triggered from Musk's statements. He only required 40hrs in the office at first. His official statement going forward was asking employees that they may need to work longer hours and dedication to get Twitter 2.0 up as soon as they can. Now we have posters making him out like he is demanding employees work up to 70-100 hour work weeks. The media and left is twisting the truth with hyperbolic outrage as usual. A lot of salaried positions like mine have built in compensation in case longer hours are required at times. The ignorance and outrage in here is astounding.

 

[fps4ever]

My 30 year pension kicks in a 55, I can retire if I so choose. And by retire, I mean get some fun job as a mountain bike mechanic in a resort town.

I remember pensions...🙁

 

[havok585]

This self proclaimed genius much like Trump is a numbskull. Good luck getting anyone to work for you when you publicly admit you want work slaves Willing to work hardcore hours. Hahaha best entertainment all year. Next up Trump being turned on by the GOP. Who has the popcorn?

40 hours is hardcore? get out of here.

 

[TheRealSCDC]

The left and woke truly have become completely unhinged. My god, making people work. Oh.. the insanity. This is the most fun I've had watching people become so unhinged.

The person who said $8 for the blue checkmark is bringing in all conservatives? Why, the government isn't giving it away?

Please keep posting. This is great.

 

[nnguy2]

LOL sure...no Musk hate there.

The left and woke truly have become completely unhinged. My god, making people work. Oh.. the insanity. This is the most fun I've had watching people become so unhinged.

The person who said $8 for the blue checkmark is bringing in all conservatives? Why, the government isn't giving it away?

Please keep posting. This is great.

No one is becoming unhinged. Giving an opinion that is different from yours is not unhinged. If this is what you think is unhinged you have a disconnect from reality.

 

[fps4ever]

No one is becoming unhinged. Giving an opinion that is different from yours is not unhinged. If this is what you think is unhinged you have a disconnect from reality.

Did he specifically say you were unhinged? I know by your words you hate Musk...no disconnect at all. Just my opinion.

 

[McMurdeR]

The left and woke truly have become completely unhinged. My god, making people work. Oh.. the insanity. This is the most fun I've had watching people become so unhinged.

Yes this is clearly a political issue! Anyone who has just a passing thought of sympathy for Musk's new colleagues can only be a communist libtard, isn't that right?

Don't choke on that popcorn!

 

[nnguy2]

Did he specifically say you were unhinged? I know by your words you hate Musk...no disconnect at all. Just my opinion.

Yes he typed out the words "unhinged". 2 posts up any one who disagrees is a woke leftist.


Like I said I don't hate Musk. I think Twitter will be his albatross. And I will enjoy watching this blow up in his face.