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Twitter hit with mass resignations after Elon Musk's ‘hardcore’ ultimatum

Elon Musk is now facing a new crisis at Twitter as a wave of employees seemed to reject his ultimatum of an “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 or leave the company.

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Twitter hit with mass resignations after Elon Musk's ‘hardcore’ ultimatum​

Karissa Bell
·Senior Editor
Thu, November 17, 2022 at 8:43 p.m.·2 min read

Elon Musk is now facing a new crisis at Twitter as a wave of employees seemed to reject his ultimatum of an “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 or leave the company. Hours after a deadline for workers to check “yes” on a Google form accepting “long hours at high intensity, it seems a large number of employees have rejected Musk’s vision.

Exactly how many employees opted for severance over remaining at Twitter isn’t yet clear. The New York Times reported the number was in the “hundreds,” while other early reports suggest the number could be much higher. The departures come after Musk already cut 50 percent of Twitter’s jobs in mass layoffs.

On Twitter, dozens of Twitter employees who had survived the initial round of layoffs tweeted farewell messages. One employee tweeted a video of a group of workers inside Twitter’s office counting down to the 5pm ET deadline on Musk’s ultimatum. “We’re all about to get fired,” he said.

Others tweeted messages alluding to Musk’s policies. In his Wednesday morning message, Musk had said that “only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

As the deadline approached, Musk reportedly grew concerned about how many remaining employees could leave the company. In a new memo, he appeared to walk back some of his earlier comments banning all remote work, though he still said he would fire managers if remote workers on their teams weren’t performing.

But it seems the concession wasn’t enough for many at Twitter Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer reported Thursday that Musk and his lieutenants were struggling to figure out just how many employees had declined to check the “yes” box on his Google form, and that Twitter would be closing down access to its offices for a few days as an extra precaution.

The departures raise new questions about whether the remaining Twitter engineers will be able to reliably keep the service up and running. Current and former employees are already speculating that the latest exodus could further put Twitter’s ability to function at risk, especially with the start of the World Cup a few days away.

Twitter no longer has communications staff, but Musk so far hasn't publicly commented on the resignations.

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I like how they try to frame it as musk 'facing a crisis' when they did exactly what he wanted and expected them to do. Fucking manipulative journos

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

>get rid of dangerhairs and stacies that do literally nothing
>replace them with programmer pajeets

Hindu or Muslim?

 

[byuu]

>either crunch like crazy for the same salary or leave with a severance
I know what I'd pick.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

An ultimatum means either outcome is acceptable. Choosing one or the other is not an win on the ultimatum giver; it's capitulating to the either/or.

 

[Honored guest]

Its been great watching everyone on Twitter freak out and doom about how its all over. Watching artists freak out because "its Tumblr all over again" has been quite entertaining, then of course you have the terminally online addicts who are putting on a pathetic sour grapes performance on how "I'll be just fine without Twitter".

 

[augment]

Let them go back to the cesspits of tumblr or just dedicate themselves to the unpaid janitorial reality of redditwork.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Twitter is going down and anyone intelligent/capable is fleeing the ship.

big assumption thinking anyone that worked at twitter was intelligent

 

[Iron Hamster]

Even if the company dies $44 billion to kill twitter is $44 billion well spent

I'll laugh if he can make it turn a profit after losing the dead weight. Make them eat their free words.

 

[Absolutego]

Its been great watching everyone on Twitter freak out and doom about how its all over. Watching artists freak out because "its Tumblr all over again" has been quite entertaining, then of course you have the terminally online addicts who are putting on a pathetic sour grapes performance on how "I'll be just fine without Twitter".

The meltdown last night was the funniest Twitter has been in years. People legitimately thought the site would be dead within hours. It's hilarious how many "tech journalists" seem to think a platform like twitter needs a massive staff, when it ran fine with a skeleton crew for its first half-decade of existence, and that was back when they were running everything on their own hardware instead of AWS.

 

[2020chan]

They think they're sticking it to Musk by not agreeing to his hardcore workplan but they're really just giving him what he wants. He has said before that it's better to have a few of the best people than lots of mediocre slackers, not exactly in those words but you get the point.
How many of these people would make the company better? If they're so willing to just walk away from this company that they love so much, because they might have to put some time and effort into the job, they probably didn't do much in the first place.

 

[A-Stump]

A bunch of tranny jannies are out of work? Well I'm sure this place has a few mod positions available.

 

[Catler]

He has said before that it's better to have a few of the best people than lots of mediocre slackers

He’s about to be left with none of the best people and Indians who produce 4 hours of work in 12.

If they're so willing to just walk away from this company that they love so much

It’s just a job. Do a good job, but if you love it you’re a corporate cuck. There is no loyalty in business and no value in staying if the situation becomes unfavourable.

 

[2020chan]

He’s about to be left with none of the best people and Indians who produce 4 hours of work in 12.

I think the end game is to replace most of the current staff. At least that's what I would do.

It’s just a job. Do a good job, but if you love it you’re a corporate cuck. There is no loyalty in business.

To them twitter isn't "just a job" it's their whole lifestyle and identity. That's why they're all throwing tantrums like they can't just get another silicon valley tech job. How many of them use "twitter staff" as a personality? Turns out they're working for a company instead of an ideology.

 

[byuu]

when it ran fine with a skeleton crew for its first half-decade of existence

Twitter never ran fine in all of its existence.
At the beginning it was a crappy Ruby-on-Rails app back when Ruby was completely unoptimized for that task.

 

[Oerlikon]

Good, i hate the new world and i hate information technology. I hope these people find what they need in life.

(A father figure most likely)

 

[make_it_so]

How was twitter generating enough revenue to keep all those dangerhairs employed and happy?, Wouldnt they have gone under regardless of Musk stepping in?.

It wasn't - like all these other massive Web 2.0 entities, it was reliant entirely on venture capital.

 

[X Prime]

Imagine making a statement that Twitter is totally done for while having a Sonic av.

 

[MavisBeaconTeachesSnipin]

layoffs/walkouts aren't going to be what kills twitter. our labor doesn't have that kind of power to change things anymore.
imo what kills twitter- there will probably be a new social media site in a month that every corporate channel shills nonstop. maybe timed with some scandal where someone does something violent on twitter.

 

[heathercho]

So when Elon walked in and asked "Working Hard or Hardly Working?", these "people" replied, in earnest, "hardly working".

He saw that the user base was grossly inflated with bots, bots pushing a narrative that it wasn't grossly inflated with bots, turned the bots off and watched the excessive amounts of employees, who were hardly working, bubble and fizz like a slug under salt.

Then he emulated banned Cheeto Overlord's "Ya fired" and sent them scuttling.

So now he has a site that has less bots, so less drain on resources, which means less need for employees who exploit these resources.
The bots - Russian or otherwise - are gone, the site will run more efficiently, with more people able to be heard and signal to noise ratio cleared, meaning more ability to curate and make sure disinfo is at an all time low and more staff can do what they need to do - cater to the consumer.
Yet mysteriously, this is seen as a bad thing.... I wonder why.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

maybe timed with some scandal where someone does something violent on twitter.

Couldn't they just let the scandals of human trafficking and child porn out? They've been covering those up for a while.

 

[Absolutego]

Twitter never ran fine in all of its existence.
At the beginning it was a crappy Ruby-on-Rails app back when Ruby was completely unoptimized for that task.

It wasn't well optimized but it wasn't constantly offline. Journos last night were acting like if there were less than 500 people in the building at all times the servers would burst into flames and die.