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At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.

shapefrog 4y ago
Over summer, tech companies were offering wheelbarrows full of cash to potential employees. Love him or hate him, once he started f'ing around at twitter, why would anyone have stayed? Unless you really desperately wanted to be in the presence of the man himself, and maybe thought he was going to buy you a horse in exchange for something
- rdtwo 4y ago
  Probably because the people getting let go aren’t in high demand anywhere with current tech layoffs
- bawolff 4y ago
  Probably it takes more than a week to find a new job and people like to have the new job in hand before quiting the old one.
  - _fat_santa 4y ago
    It's been 2 weeks since he officially bought it, but working at twitter (and even as an outsider just reading the news), you see the writing on the wall. There were tons of reports of planned layoffs, and the changes that Elon wanted to see in the company. None of what he is doing is surprising, least of all to Twitter employees.
    - mrguyorama 4y ago
      Companies have always known that employees will put up with abysmal conditions to some level. The stress, effort, insecurity, and fear of finding a new job has always had an extreme value to most people.
    - bawolff 4y ago
      Yeah, but it was unclear up to that point if he was actually going to buy it or not.
- pastor_bob 4y ago
  Layoffs started over the summer. Hiring freezes had been implemented. I'm sure many twitter employees thought he would drag his feet or the deal would fall through, and they'd have at least a year+ of time before he comes in.
newaccount2021 4y ago
ajkjk 4y ago
Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.
- e40 4y ago
  The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.
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  - ajkjk 4y ago
    Oh yeah, not surprised. I'm just griping that there's a lot of assuming going on in here and it's worth, like, checking.
- d35007 4y ago
  How many are left? /s
- acomjean 4y ago
  I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round. Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..
- teg4n_ 4y ago
  Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.

Over summer, tech companies were offering wheelbarrows full of cash to potential employees. Love him or hate him, once he started f'ing around at twitter, why would anyone have stayed? Unless you really desperately wanted to be in the presence of the man himself, and maybe thought he was going to buy you a horse in exchange for something

rdtwo 4y ago
Probably because the people getting let go aren’t in high demand anywhere with current tech layoffs
bawolff 4y ago
Probably it takes more than a week to find a new job and people like to have the new job in hand before quiting the old one.
- _fat_santa 4y ago
  It's been 2 weeks since he officially bought it, but working at twitter (and even as an outsider just reading the news), you see the writing on the wall. There were tons of reports of planned layoffs, and the changes that Elon wanted to see in the company. None of what he is doing is surprising, least of all to Twitter employees.
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    Companies have always known that employees will put up with abysmal conditions to some level. The stress, effort, insecurity, and fear of finding a new job has always had an extreme value to most people.
  - bawolff 4y ago
    Yeah, but it was unclear up to that point if he was actually going to buy it or not.
pastor_bob 4y ago
Layoffs started over the summer. Hiring freezes had been implemented. I'm sure many twitter employees thought he would drag his feet or the deal would fall through, and they'd have at least a year+ of time before he comes in.

newaccount2021 4y ago

ajkjk 4y ago

Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.

e40 4y ago
The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.
- deleted 4y ago
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- ajkjk 4y ago
  Oh yeah, not surprised. I'm just griping that there's a lot of assuming going on in here and it's worth, like, checking.
d35007 4y ago
How many are left? /s
acomjean 4y ago
I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round. Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..
teg4n_ 4y ago
Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.