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.
The exact wording of the 24-hour notice ultimatum included "extremely hardcore", "working long hours at high intensity" and "only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade".
No one has who has had a meaningful engineering career in Silicon Valley could possibly interpret that to mean anything less than 70-100 hour work weeks. If Elon meant something different, it would have been on him to better clarify. But he didn't mean something different.
This debacle has been widely covered in both traditional and social media, and not a single report I've seen has included your made up (for Elon's Twitter 2.0) "built in compensation in case longer hours are required at times."
It's not the media and left who is twisting, it is you. The quotes are there in black and white.
The official published results are not yet available, and perhaps as a private company Twitter will not ever have to disclose, but there are unverified employee reports along the lines of 72 out of 75 engineers in one group giving this ultimatum the finger it deserves.
My umbrage to this debacle has nothing to do with left vs right politics (which in my case run towards free markets, free people), but to prevailing standards for how good high-growth, high-quality companies manage good engineers. This is the industry and town I've worked in for three decades, at every level from junior engineer to CTO, and this is not how it's done. That's why its front page news.