Twitter staff nearly decimated by Musk's 'extremely hardcore' demand

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  • Reply 21 of 100
    MadbumMadbum Posts: 511member
    Smart man. He knows the Twitter staff had a culture of hate toward him. He’s weeding out the underminers, the liabilities, and recreating the staff according to people who share ideals rather than having his own workforce fight against him both publicly and secretly while taking his paychecks. 

    Twitter has needed the poop cleaned out of the cage for a long time. Glad to see it finally happening. 

    Going to be a much better operation. 
    Exactly. This happens at take overs of most problematic companies with poor cultures, or even sports teams

    just managment doing their thing. Elon has succeeded at everything, no reason to think he won’t here 
    jimdreamworxdewmewilliamlondonbluefire1watto_cobraJWSC
  • Reply 22 of 100
    At this rate they will hire monkeys to run the operation. 
    edited November 2022 watto_cobra
  • Reply 23 of 100
    xbitxbit Posts: 378member
    Madbum said:

    just managment doing their thing. Elon has succeeded at everything, no reason to think he won’t here 
    He didn't succeed at keeping his wife.

    If you want to keep with the sports team analogies, go read The Damned Utd by David Peace. Very apt.
    baconstangwatto_cobraFileMakerFeller
  • Reply 24 of 100
    Keep up the good work Elon! Talking about burning money. Feel sad for whom who lost their job. But don't feel sad for Elon the dictator and his investors. The sooner Twitter is killed the better for the society.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonbaconstangwatto_cobrasconosciuto
  • Reply 25 of 100
    OMG!!! He’s asking his employees to work hard!  Damn him and his hard work philosophies!! No one should have to work hard to get paid good money!!! EVER!  :D
    edited November 2022 MadbumjimdreamworxwilliamlondonNotSoMuchwatto_cobraJWSC
  • Reply 26 of 100
    He’s a fucking genius. He’s a fucking asshole. Everything he does is something. Tesla was an asshole. 
    edited November 2022 williamlondonbaconstangwatto_cobra
  • Reply 27 of 100
    I just want to say that all of this publicity with Musks management style is going to hurt workers in the future. Especially if he’s successful. This is how he runs his very successful companies 
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  • Reply 28 of 100
    DAalsethDAalseth Posts: 2,783member
    LOL Those posts here saying that Musk is just clearing out the dead wood, that Twitter staff was full of people that weren’t working hard, weren’t pulling their weight really crack me up. Do you really think that 75%+ of the staff weren’t needed? Do you really think the site that had trouble staying up last World Cup will do just fine with not just people, but whole departments gone? With Content Moderation crippled? With  Public Relations and Communications dark? With most of the programmers and infrastructure people not there, or at best spending time looking to get out? Do you honestly think that by selectively driving away the most experienced, most talented, most capable members of the staff, the site will somehow work better? 

    Get real. This fiasco will be used by business schools in the future of exactly how not to take over a company. As an example of precisely how not to treat your staff. As Exhibit A of managers that did not know WTH they were doing. 
    muthuk_vanalingamronntdknoxroundaboutnowstompywatto_cobrasconosciutoelijahgFileMakerFellertmay
  • Reply 29 of 100
    JP234JP234 Posts: 1,434member
    Smart man. He knows the Twitter staff had a culture of hate toward him. He’s weeding out the underminers, the liabilities, and recreating the staff according to people who share ideals rather than having his own workforce fight against him both publicly and secretly while taking his paychecks. 

    Twitter has needed the poop cleaned out of the cage for a long time. Glad to see it finally happening. 

    Going to be a much better operation. 
    So Musk surrounding himself with only sycophants and mendicants makes Twitter BETTER?? Can't wait to witness what actually happens.
    That's akin to saying Trump doing the exact same thing will make America great (and glorious) again. I CAN wait to witness that happen, hopefully forever.
    muthuk_vanalingamronntdknoxbaconstangwatto_cobrasconosciutomontrosemacselijahgFileMakerFellertmay
  • Reply 30 of 100
    As always, you could put a monkey in front of three buttons that were labelled 'Layoffs', 'Benefit Cuts' and 'Workload Increase' and they could produce the same results as human beings paid millions of dollars to be CEO. Musk is just showing that he's not an original thinker. 
    ronnwilliamlondonstompywatto_cobraFileMakerFeller
  • Reply 31 of 100
    Fred257 said:
    I just want to say that all of this publicity with Musks management style is going to hurt workers in the future. Especially if he’s successful. This is how he runs his very successful companies 
    Which successful companies are you referring to? SpaceX and Boring both lose money. Tesla is solvent due to a government incentive program and has yet to be profitable in its own right. 

    Why is it that Elon Stans know the least about him?
    DAalsethronntdknoxwilliamlondonroundaboutnowbaconstangwatto_cobrafreeassociate2FileMakerFellertmay
  • Reply 32 of 100
    My guess is that most reasonably aware people knew Space Karen would completely bungle this but I don't imagine they thought he would do it so quickly. 
    DAalsethronntdknoxbaconstangwatto_cobrasconosciutoFileMakerFeller
  • Reply 33 of 100
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
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  • Reply 34 of 100
    DAalsethDAalseth Posts: 2,783member
    pjohnt said:
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
    Yes it is. Bugs the heck out of me too. Better to use something like “nearly wiped out”, or to be a bit more sensational “devastated”. 
    tdknoxwatto_cobra
  • Reply 35 of 100
    damonfdamonf Posts: 229member
    pjohnt said:
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
    How about a new term:

    elon (verb): to announce intentions to buy a multi-billion dollar company, waiver on that commitment, then be legally bound to consummate the purchase, followed by letting go a large amount of staff thus bringing instability to the company's operations, changing policies daily that confuse the company's customers/users and cast doubt on the company's ability to provide value to them, insisting your remaining employees have no work/life balance, all leading to the ultimate demise of the very company you hoped to improve, simultaneously casting massive public skepticism on your abilities as a leader and a humane person.

    Example: After he eloned the heck out of Twitter, who in their right mind would want to go to Mars as his employee?
    watto_cobrasconosciutoJP234
  • Reply 36 of 100
    avon b7avon b7 Posts: 6,810member
    pjohnt said:
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
    That's only one of the meanings. Another is the one referred to in the article. 



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  • Reply 37 of 100
    pjohnt said:
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
    From Oxford:

    dec·i·mate
    /ˈdesəˌmāt/

    verb
    past tense: decimated; past participle: decimated
    1. 1. 
      kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.
      "the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness"
    2. 2. 
      HISTORICAL
      kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.
      "the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

    The definition you're using is "historical", not current. You won't feel left behind if you grow with the language.
    ronnmuthuk_vanalingamtdknoxroundaboutnowsconosciutomontrosemacselijahgbaconstangFileMakerFeller
  • Reply 38 of 100
    thttht Posts: 4,801member
    pjohnt said:
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
    Nōnāgintied?
  • Reply 39 of 100
    eightzeroeightzero Posts: 2,836member
    bsimpsen said:
    pjohnt said:
    "Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.
    From Oxford:

    dec·i·mate
    /ˈdesəˌmāt/

    verb
    past tense: decimated; past participle: decimated
    1. 1. 
      kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.
      "the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness"
    2. 2. 
      HISTORICAL
      kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.
      "the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

    The definition you're using is "historical", not current. You won't feel left behind if you grow with the language.
    Pass that sagely advice on to the USSct? See also eg the word "privacy." ready go
    FileMakerFeller
  • Reply 40 of 100
    doal said:
    He’s a fucking genius. He’s a fucking asshole. Everything he does is something. Tesla was an asshole. 
    Don’t mince words. Tell us what you really think…
    JP234baconstang
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