Elon Musk Issues Ultimatum

[Skylar]

Every tech worker in the world wants to work for a Musk company. Except perhaps for the woke. But they need to go anyway.

Or those that don't want to work all nighters for the same pay they can get in other tech companies with regular hours.

Especially for a boss that will blame his employees (or even more laughably, his customers) for his own bad decision making.

 

[Skylar]

What is you job?

Kinda of key detail for the 'point' that is trying to be made.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Or those that don't want to work all nighters for the same pay they can get in other tech companies with regular hours.

Especially for a boss that will blame his employees (or even more laughably, his customers) for his own bad decision making.

Bad decision making? That's a joke right?

 

[Skylar]

Bad decision making? That's a joke right?

Are you kidding me? Musk's response to his advertisers concerns that Twitter would become a breeding ground for misinformation was to promote the conspiracy that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a 'lover'.

Then fired the company leadership and dissolved the board. With a leadership purge (and no replacements yet, mind you) of VP level positions and a coring of his engineering teams. Leaving the company essentially leaderless......save for Musk.

When advertisers predictably balked as hate speech on Twitter skyrocketed, Musk responded by *attacking his advertisers*. Which lead to even more ad dollars leaving Twitter.

Musk called for a $20 a month verification system to make up for lost revenue. They backed down to $8. They launched it prematurely where it promptly failed. Then suspended the entire system 2 days later.

During this 2 day shitshow, Musk allowed a fake Eli Lilly account to be made with the blue check....which announced that insulin was free. When the actual Eli Lilly corrected the misinformation, its stock prices tanked. Elon's incompetence cost his own advertisers MILLIONS in stock value.

Within 9 days of taking ownership, revenue had tanked to *well* below its pre-Musk levels. Musk himself described the revenue drops as 'massive'. With his revenue drops only exceeded by the drop in company morale.

And in response to revenue drops and cratered company morale.....Musk is now preparing his employees for BANKRUPTCY. Its only been a few weeks!

This has been an absolute clusterfuck from top to bottom, with Musk responsible for the outcome at every stage.

 

[Grumblenuts]

Musk runs a lot of companies. He knows what he's doing.

Seen Tesla's stock lately?

 

[miketx]

Lol, leftist loons bloviating out their sphincters about something the TV has told them. How typical.

 

[Skylar]

Lol, leftist loons bloviating out their sphincters about something the TV has told them. How typical.

Laughing....says the guy who hasn't demonstrated the slightest understanding of anything being discussed.

For example: how is Elon Musk's botched blue check launch and predictable supension anything but an unmitigated disaster?

 

[miketx]

Laughing....says the guy who hasn't demonstrated the slightest understanding of anything being discussed.

For example: how is Elon Musk's botched blue check launch and predictable supension anything but an unmitigated disaster?

Sorry skank, I don't waste my time with you vermin and your lying. It's pointless just like your lives.

 

[Skylar]

Sorry skank, I don't waste my time with you vermin and your lying. It's pointless just like your lives.

Laughing....thank you for confirming your ignorance and irrelevance on anything being discussed.

When you've bothered to educate yourself, feel free to join the conversation.

 

[Skylar]

Yes, but once a workplace gains a crappy reputation, those new folks being brought in are the bottom of the barrel.

Musk's treatment of the engineer he called out publicly won't help the company's reputation.

 

[miketx]

Laughing....thank you for confirming your ignorance and irrelevance on anything being discussed.

When you've bothered to educate yourself, feel free to join the conversation.

Nothing was confirmed but your lying skank status.

 

[Skylar]

Nothing was confirmed but you lying skank status.

Rage in ignorance, friend.

 

[Skylar]

Doubtful.

Twitter will be there but, if you look at what sustains these companies is a mix of public buy-in as well as ROI. Public buy-in is the biggest component. If Doha-Kat or whatever her name is doesn't tweet, nobody logs on to Twitter to see what she is saying to her followers. No eye-balls; no advertising....no income.

Now, Facebook for a great example, became a must have in some circles because they offered something nobody else had...this virtual community to where you could share your experiences with people whom you already communicate; turning every move you make into a potential teleconference complete with original content, sourced media, etc... Before FB, YouTube was an innovator in that space except for the shared experiences....you could broadcast audio, video, third party media, etc... Then....boom.....TikTok supplanted them...so now Facebook has Reels through it's subsidiary Instagram to compete with TikTok. This is what a workplace does; they have the intellectual bandwidth to adapt to a changing marketplace.

Does Musk really think that these engineers who are looking to jump ship are chomping at the bit to work for a guy who just fired 1/2 of the staff of a social media giant? I grant that there is a strong mercenary culture in Silicon Valley but, unlike the mercenaries who read Soldier of Fortune, these folks can see the big picture.

Twitter will be around but to continue to get the buy-in; you have to offer something that is at least a few degrees outside of what everyone else is offering (which is why you see a new menu item launched every other week from McDonalds and whatnot). Its difficult to get the buy-in when you don't have the content and even harder still when your just fired your innovators.

Musk is opening up huge opportunities for Twitter alternatives. There's a non-right wing market for what Twitter offers. Lay off enough engineers, and they'll make it.

 

[miketx]

Rage in ignorance, friend.

Lie without a spine, friend.

 

[miketx]

Musk is opening up huge opportunities for Twitter alternatives. There's a non-right wing market for what Twitter offers. Lay off enough engineers, and they'll make it.

Never worked at Twitter. Makes ridiculous claims to the contrary.

 

[miketx]

There's a non-right wing market for what Twitter offers.

It's called prison.

 

[Skylar]

It's called prison.

Truth Social and Parler have attempted to become Twitter. There just aren't enough hard core right wingers to make the projects scalable. Or in the case of Truth Social, remotely profitable.

If a Twitter alternative existed that wasn't focused on promoting Trump or right wing politics......it would likely siphon audience off of Twitter if it continues down its current path.

 

[miketx]

Truth Social and Parler have attempted to become Twitter. There just aren't enough hard core right wingers to make the projects scalable. Or in the case of Truth Social, remotely profitable.

If a Twitter alternative existed that wasn't focused on promoting Trump or right wing politics......it would likely siphon audience off of Twitter if it continues down its current path.

Knows nothing about Twitter, spews anyway.

 

[Skylar]

Knows nothing about Twitter, spews anyway.

Rage in ignorance, friend.

 

[miketx]

Rage in ignorance, friend.

Lie in infamy, friend.