Twitter Fork in the Road

[rightwinger]

Who didn’t see this one coming?

Elon Musk gives Twitter employees an ultimatum: Stay or go by tomorrow

Twitter CEO Elon Musk tells workers they must decide to stay with the company and be prepared to work long, intense hours, or leave with three month's severance pay.

www.npr.org

Fire half your employees and then demand your remaining workforce work harder and longer hours.
Gutsy move with low unemployment numbers

Great way to build loyalty in your workforce

 

[rightwinger]

In an email to staff entitled "A Fork in the Road," Musk said Twitter would "need to be extremely hardcore" to succeed. Those who choose to stay should expect long, intense hours of work. Those who leave will receive three months' severance pay, he wrote.

 

[mamooth]

Musk has fantasies about turning Twitter into something more like WeChat, the Chinese do-everything app that shares all user info with the CCP. No, his new-Twitter won't send info to the CCP, but it will send it to whoever Musk wants to sell it to.

There are already alternatives that do what Twitter does better than how Twitter does it. Twitter's value was in its user base, not in its technology, and Musk is alienating that user base.

 

[Rye Catcher]

If every employee walks away, and the fired CEO and others in the leadership get together a new and similar technology business, named, "Parrots"(?); thus, a flood of former twitterers will leave for Polly. Revenue would be from advertisers and the sale of stocks and bonds would be the funds needed.

 

[rightwinger]

If every employee walks away, and the fired CEO and others in the leadership get together a new and similar technology business, named, "Parrots"(?); thus, a flood of former twitterers will leave for Polly. Revenue would be from advertisers and the sale of stocks and bonds would be the funds needed.

Twitter has few Brick and Mortar assets
It’s value is in its Human Capital

The people who built the code, understand why things were done the way it was, vulnerabilities, who to call when things go wrong and how to fix it.

Firing half the workforce and making the remaining half miserable is not a good business plan

 

[rightwinger]

Musk has fantasies about turning Twitter into something more like WeChat, the Chinese do-everything app that shares all user info with the CCP. No, his new-Twitter won't send info to the CCP, but it will send it to whoever Musk wants to sell it to.

There are already alternatives that do what Twitter does better than how Twitter does it. Twitter's value was in its user base, not in its technology, and Musk is alienating that user base.

Musk overpaid and now must try to recoup his losses off his employees backs

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

In an email to staff entitled "A Fork in the Road," Musk said Twitter would "need to be extremely hardcore" to succeed. Those who choose to stay should expect long, intense hours of work. Those who leave will receive three months' severance pay, he wrote.

Gee you mean they'll have to work 40 hours a week!?
The Horror!!!!

 

[rightwinger]

Gee you mean they'll have to work 40 hours a week!?
The Horror!!!!

If only

Looks like uncompensated overtime. I didn’t see Musk offering any bonus to his workers.

Just……Accept it or you are fired

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

If only

Looks like uncompensated overtime. I didn’t see Musk offering any bonus to his workers.

Just……Accept it or you are fired

Are they salary employees?
If so thats their problem,they should have signed up as hourly employees.
Oh...looks like or is uncompensated?

 

[rightwinger]

Are they salary employees?
If so thats their problem,they should have signed up as hourly employees.
Oh...looks like or is uncompensated?

The email says nothing about showing gratitude or rewarding those who are expected to work harder an$ longer hours.

Just accept it or you are fired
Decide by Friday

Hope large numbers tell him to stick it

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The email says nothing about showing gratitude or rewarding those who are expected to work harder an$ longer hours.

Just accept it or you are fired
Decide by Friday

Hope large numbers tell him to stick it

And whats wrong with that?
Work a standard work week or hit the highway.

 

[rightwinger]

And whats wrong with that?
Work a standard work week or hit the highway.

Seems anything but a standard work week

But they are salaried employees. They can take it or hit the door.
I would make sure my resume is current

 

[rightwinger]

Two Twitter employees told CNN ahead of the deadline on Thursday that they planned to reject the ultimatum, citing a toxic work environment they say the billionaire has introduced. Another Twitter employee told CNN Wednesday they were still weighing the decision, saying the email from Musk “felt like a punch in the gut

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/twitter-employees-ultimatum-deadline/index.html

 

[rightwinger]

A recently laid off employee who remains in touch with former coworkers told CNN that everyone they had spoken to plans to reject Musk’s ultimatum and exit the company. “People can’t overlook the public mockery and firing of other employees,” the former employee told CNN. “In the same vein, they can’t overlook or feel comfortable working for someone who has handled the last few weeks in the way Elon has.”

“People don’t want to sacrifice their mental health and family lives to make the richest man in the world richer,” the former employee added.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Two Twitter employees told CNN ahead of the deadline on Thursday that they planned to reject the ultimatum, citing a toxic work environment they say the billionaire has introduced. Another Twitter employee told CNN Wednesday they were still weighing the decision, saying the email from Musk “felt like a punch in the gut

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/twitter-employees-ultimatum-deadline/index.html

Sounds like they're a bunch of pussies.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Gee you mean they'll have to work 40 hours a week!?
The Horror!!!!

The talk is eighty.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The talk is eighty.

The talk?

 

[Indeependent]

If only

Looks like uncompensated overtime. I didn’t see Musk offering any bonus to his workers.

Just……Accept it or you are fired

Like every Tech company.

 

[Indeependent]

The talk is eighty.

What's the salary range?
In the real world, making 80K+ means working 80 hours a week.

 

[SweetSue92]

Who didn’t see this one coming?

Elon Musk gives Twitter employees an ultimatum: Stay or go by tomorrow

Twitter CEO Elon Musk tells workers they must decide to stay with the company and be prepared to work long, intense hours, or leave with three month's severance pay.

www.npr.org

Fire half your employees and then demand your remaining workforce work harder and longer hours.
Gutsy move with low unemployment numbers

Great way to build loyalty in your workforce

Twitter had 7,400 employees. What?

I laughed out loud at "work extremely hard and long hours". Add in, "for no respect and little pay" and you have a teacher's job!