Your thoughts on Elon musk?

Not much more to add, but here is the alledged email...

Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven. Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so I think this makes sense.

If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below:

[Google form link]

Anyone who has not done so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance.

Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful.

He's come up with a brilliant plan. Have his employees sign a pledge that they're going to work insane unpaid overtime or get fired! And they'll definitely do it because who doesn't want to work for an insane boss an extra 40 hours a week for free.

Boom! Your move, libtards.

Quote from: Crouton on November 16, 2022, 08:57:52 AM

He's come up with a brilliant plan. Have his employees sign a pledge that they're going to work insane unpaid overtime or get fired! And they'll definitely do it because who doesn't want to work for an insane boss an extra 40 hours a week for free.

Boom! Your move, libtards.

He has done this both at SpaceX and Tesla multiple times. His has been very vocal that he is not impressed at the talent at twitter. The goal is to get rid of most of the staff and only keep the guys willing to do his bidding.
I dont see how this wont actually work.

Quote from: Crouton on November 16, 2022, 08:57:52 AM

He's come up with a brilliant plan. Have his employees sign a pledge that they're going to work insane unpaid overtime or get fired! And they'll definitely do it because who doesn't want to work for an insane boss an extra 40 hours a week for free.

Boom! Your move, libtards.

He has done this both at SpaceX and Tesla multiple times. His has been very vocal that he is not impressed at the talent at twitter. The goal is to get rid of most of the staff and only keep the guys willing to do his bidding.
I dont see how this wont actually work.

Quote from: MaNaeSWolf on November 17, 2022, 01:29:37 AM

Quote from: Crouton on November 16, 2022, 08:57:52 AM

He's come up with a brilliant plan. Have his employees sign a pledge that they're going to work insane unpaid overtime or get fired! And they'll definitely do it because who doesn't want to work for an insane boss an extra 40 hours a week for free.

Boom! Your move, libtards.

He has done this both at SpaceX and Tesla multiple times. His has been very vocal that he is not impressed at the talent at twitter. The goal is to get rid of most of the staff and only keep the guys willing to do his bidding.
I dont see how this wont actually work.

Because there was an existing culture at Twitter he has upended. The culture at SpaceX and Tesla were his way from the start.

Musk doesn't exactly have the reputation he once had. And giving Twitter looks to be in a death spiral - it's not exactly going to 'attract' new talent. Elon would be better tasked ensuring those that are still there feel good to work there.

Crushing work ethic and respect for the business is not the way forward to success. I've had shitty managers in my day. It resulted in having zero care for the job or success of the workplace. I left as soon as I had the chance. Also the IT industry is not exactly hard to get into.

Elon Musk needs these workers a hell of a lot more than they need him

Quote from: Wolvaccine on November 17, 2022, 01:38:53 AM

Quote from: MaNaeSWolf on November 17, 2022, 01:29:37 AM

Quote from: Crouton on November 16, 2022, 08:57:52 AM

He's come up with a brilliant plan. Have his employees sign a pledge that they're going to work insane unpaid overtime or get fired! And they'll definitely do it because who doesn't want to work for an insane boss an extra 40 hours a week for free.

Boom! Your move, libtards.

He has done this both at SpaceX and Tesla multiple times. His has been very vocal that he is not impressed at the talent at twitter. The goal is to get rid of most of the staff and only keep the guys willing to do his bidding.
I dont see how this wont actually work.

Because there was an existing culture at Twitter he has upended. The culture at SpaceX and Tesla were his way from the start.

Musk doesn't exactly have the reputation he once had. And giving Twitter looks to be in a death spiral - it's not exactly going to 'attract' new talent. Elon would be better tasked ensuring those that are still there feel good to work there.

Crushing work ethic and respect for the business is not the way forward to success. I've had shitty managers in my day. It resulted in having zero care for the job or success of the workplace. I left as soon as I had the chance. Also the IT industry is not exactly hard to get into.

Elon Musk needs these workers a hell of a lot more than they need him

There was an existing culture at Twitter before the current one upended it, too. Jack envisioned Twitter as a place for free speech. Then they hired a bunch of DEI types and all that went to shit.

I don't know if Elon can pull it off, but I think most companies would be better off without the words are violence people running them.

Okay, but Twitter was losing millions before Elon took over.

Twitter, from the onset, quickly became a cesspool of "free speech"

Okay, but Twitter was losing millions before Elon took over. This is why I don't get it when people blame it all on Elon. The site has been garbage for years. When the safe space weirdos took over, they just allowed a different group of people to have free speech, to be hostile, and to spread dubious information.

Okay, but Twitter was losing millions before Elon took over. This is why I don't get it when people blame it all on Elon. The site has been garbage for years. When the safe space weirdos took over, they just allowed a different group of people to have free speech, to be hostile, and to spread dubious information.

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on November 17, 2022, 02:06:40 PM

Okay, but Twitter was losing millions before Elon took over. This is why I don't get it when people blame it all on Elon. The site has been garbage for years. When the safe space weirdos took over, they just allowed a different group of people to have free speech, to be hostile, and to spread dubious information.

The thing is because the way the buyout was structured, twitter now has about 10x the debt.  That with increased prime rates are really making Elon hurt right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html

In other news the most predictable results of Elon's "hardcore" email has happened.

If I were playing werepenguin, and there was a list of topics and a set narrative on those topics that the werepenguins had to adhere to. If I were a werepenguin, I would rather remain silent in most cases than to push those topics and narratives the werepenguins were required to push.

With competent inspectors, if the werepenguins were overly vocal, the werepenguins would be easy to spot.

Liar. Dumbarse. Idiot

Which begs the question: Why the fuck did he want to take over? Why pay an over inflated price? And why can't he STFU so as not make his primary source of revenue (advertisers) uneasy?

Surely twitter couldn't possibly have had 70% dead weight?

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on November 17, 2022, 02:06:40 PM

Okay, but Twitter was losing millions before Elon took over.

Which begs the question: Why the fuck did he want to take over? Why pay an over inflated price? And why can't he STFU so as not make his primary source of revenue (advertisers) uneasy?

And how did he not foresee car companies pulling out given he owns and is a famous face of a rival car brand.

To all and sundry he's coming off as a major dickwad. I'm sure the reality of the $44 billion 'investment' is starting to sink in

Remember none of his workers need Twitter to succeed more than him. Being a major dickwad of a boss who clearly has no fucken idea of what he's doing or a comprehensible plan moving forward while Twitter loses even more money than before he took over is not doing him any favours

Good luck to him because luck is the only thing that will save his 'investment' at this point. I didn't spend a dollar for that steaming pile of shit so idgaf what happens

They only care about free speech when they're the ones allowed to have it.

Quote from: Wolvaccine on November 17, 2022, 07:42:01 PM

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on November 17, 2022, 02:06:40 PM

Okay, but Twitter was losing millions before Elon took over.

Which begs the question: Why the fuck did he want to take over? Why pay an over inflated price? And why can't he STFU so as not make his primary source of revenue (advertisers) uneasy?

And how did he not foresee car companies pulling out given he owns and is a famous face of a rival car brand.

To all and sundry he's coming off as a major dickwad. I'm sure the reality of the $44 billion 'investment' is starting to sink in

Remember none of his workers need Twitter to succeed more than him. Being a major dickwad of a boss who clearly has no fucken idea of what he's doing or a comprehensible plan moving forward while Twitter loses even more money than before he took over is not doing him any favours

Good luck to him because luck is the only thing that will save his 'investment' at this point. I didn't spend a dollar for that steaming pile of shit so idgaf what happens

He hasn't said anything that should make advertisers uneasy. The people driving the advertisers away are the ones the most pissed that the sale went through. These advertisers don't have a problem placing ads alongside the most disgusting shit on the internet until someone points it out, and then only if the outrage kicks in.

The ones crying the most about the possibility of free speech on Twitter are the ones who have been controlling the narrative. The same people who made fun of people for objecting to being banned for expressing (sometimes completely normal) opinions, and saying it's a private company they can do what they want are the ones complaining the most that this private company is changing its rules. They only care about free speech when they're the ones allowed to have it.

Twitter is a dead simple site.

Discord, which is VASTLY more feature rich has an entire team of 750 people

YouTube has 2800 people

Reddit has 700

TikTok 700

WTF is twitter doing with 7500 people?

How is it in anyway conceivable that they have more people than YouTube working on a app that allows people to send short messages?

How many engineers are there tunning TFES? 1000? 10 000? Heck, we can even send messages longer than 300 characters here?

They need probably around 300 Engineers. An accounting department of about 50 people. And a massive team of content and PR moderation. 2000 people is a LOT of people to run a frikken website that does so little.

Twitter is a dead simple site.

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They need probably around 300 Engineers. An accounting department of about 50 people. And a massive team of content and PR moderation. 2000 people is a LOT of people to run a frikken website that does so little.