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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
 
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Cuckoman said:
I have to admire their bravery/entitlement. They think that in this coming climate they can go to an interview and basically say "Then they wanted me to work hard, so I quit, because I don't want to have to work hard." lol
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Any firm worth it's salt should just shitcan any resume they get that lists Twitter as the last employer, since its a red flag you're hiring a lazy, insubordinate, incompetent, permanent HR nightmare.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
That's a huge fucking myth.

McDonalds is infamous for fucking people over on their hours, which entirely depend on what shift you get locked into when you get hired (so you can't change shift/assigned gig if something happens and you need to change your schedule). You'll be lucky if you can get just under 30 hours a week due to the company being very (((elfish))) when it comes to not wanting anyone working 40 hours and that's assuming your shift leader/manager are not complete cunts and explicitly only schedule you for one or two days if any days, as I've had friends who've worked at McDonalds openly complain about getting no hours or worse, only one or two days a week if they piss someone off even before the pandemic forced them to hike their wages up.

Hell, McDonalds kikes people over so badly that they naturally ASSUME that you'll have to also be working a second job as a given (as seen when they put out their infamous "how to live on a McDonalds salary" to their workers in the early 10s to combat pushes from the media to hike their wages to something remotely livable, as their budget was based literally on the premise that their workers had two fucking jobs). Not to mention, like Wal-Mart, McDonalds tacitly DEMANDS that if you are struggling to get by on their poverty wages, that you'll NATURALLY just sign up for food stamps and other government assistant programs, as far as expecting the government to have to spend tax money covering their asses so their employees don't starve to death.
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mmm is completely different to our McDonalds here, back in the day students WANTED to work on it because if you were studying in collegue and were working for more than 6 months the company paid for your education in full, the gig is that during those 4 years you cant leave, most people just lasted the 4 years because the other option was public universities that are absolutely trash, it also include very good food benefits, no Healthcare tho and not so much rapetastic shifts (because they cant be open 24/7)
 
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I can't get over how journos and libs on Twitter are acting like everyone quitting or being fired is an amazing software engineer.

There may be some, but a lot of people removed were like HR or helped organize ads. Then even when it comes to the programmers, the majority are likely incompetent and getting propped up by the minority that do anything. They may be able to lie their way into another job, but it's hard to imagine they'd get something as cushy as Twitter was doing for them.
 
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Just_Somebody said:
Isn't getting these clowns to resign far cheaper than firing them?
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It might not be cheaper, but it's definitely less risky. I'm not a lawfag, but common sense would suggest that it's much harder to bring a successful wrongful dismissal claim against Twitter if an employee leaves of their own volition, especially if the company is willing to pay them 3 months' severance when they don't technically have to.

I have no doubt Musk's lawyers and finance team did their homework when they decided to clean up Twitter's staffing issues in the manner they have.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
That's like almost every office job I've ever worked in. The IT department never had their own quiet section, they were always in the same room as the people that were always on the phones. Either that, or you had the IT guys that would visit specific buildings of the branches and do work there, but even then the environment was always loud.

One of the IT jobs I worked in had the IT row, the Data Entry row, and the payroll/accounting row across from the customer support row, which took like 85% of the office space, so you heard nothing BUT talking considering almost everyone that worked there were women.
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Stupid companies, IT and Devs go in the server room with the other robots. Nice constant, persistent whir to drown out noise. Climate controlled, keeps them comfy and the filtered air is good for the high incidence of allergies/asthma in that demographic. Out of the way and not really visited by other people. This is good as some IT personnel can be "abrasive" in interesting ways but too important to shitcan and too sensitive to counsel. Also lets them setup whatever gives them a feeling of privacy so they can set up cool shit like a network Halo or Quake lobby.
 
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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.
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If that's all they got in the ultimatum, without any further clarification, I'd take my severance. One of my problems with Musk is how he wants to go from step 1 to 2 to 100 and doesn't have anyone to tard wrangle him down and explain steps 3 through 99. Whether it's his Hyperloop, Tesla Truck (that's gonna beat rail, LOL, retard), going to Mars, or whatever he wants to do with Twitter. Give me your vision and a path or fuck off. I'm not gonna play hardcore gopher for someone just because of who they are, and if you want me to, we're gonna renegotiate my pay. Don't get me wrong, I can respect his take of "Under new management, I'm in charge" and the progressive insanity it's caused, but laughs don't pay the bills. So give me a clear vision (and path, or let me chart on) or boost my pay; otherwise, I'm going elsewhere.
 
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Saw that one guy that left Twitter was being frank that the company was bloated thanks to Jack stacking up on staff thinking the company would take off big in spite of the lack of revenue. So at least some people saw what was coming before Musk got involved.
 
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With all these Twitter articles I have to call my doctor about my prolonged erection…
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It might not be cheaper, but it's definitely less risky. I'm not a lawfag, but common sense would suggest that it's much harder to bring a successful wrongful dismissal claim against Twitter if an employee leaves of their own volition, especially if the company is willing to pay them 3 months' severance when they don't technically have to.

I have no doubt Musk's lawyers and finance team did their homework when they decided to clean up Twitter's staffing issues in the manner they have.
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It makes it easier for sure.
 
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I expect a lot of companies were already wondering at the moment how much of the fat they can trim without affecting output. Twitter seemingly unaffected by offices closing and thousands leaving says a lot.
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Also, the promised social backlash to firing your entire DEI staff has been shown (much like with the end of Roe v Wade) as more of the usual screeching online and no real negative "real world" effects, as it was always a given that touching those scared cows would unleash more Floyd style "peaceful" protests, at your HQ.

Now that they see that all you get is impenitent mewling ?

They're much more likely to follow suit and can the internal race grifters.
 
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TowinKarz said:
Actually, it does. As the big trucker protests show.

It's that to have that kind of power, you have to be important, not self-important.

You have to have value to others OUSIDE your immediate peer group.

The guy who drives the truck that brings the gas to the corner store's absence will be felt much harder and faster than the lost of 5,000 DEI directors..... Musk is just proving that 10% of the workforce is all you need to run Twitter because the other 90% were useless eaters (or non-eaters as the cafeteria bill showed) who did nothing but the kind of content-policing everyone who isn't a raging libtard hates, and did it half-assed and for 10 minutes a day.... nobody's gonna miss them.


Yes, the same people who proudly said they only ever came to the office once a week for 3 hours and did 15 minutes of work while there, who said it was cruel to end free meals and free yoga, who likely operated in a way that meant there weren't 500 people in the building at any time for the last 2 years... are now CERTAIN the place is doomed if 500 people aren't there 24/7 and ready to work. Funny.
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This.

As someone who works in a tech field it's hilarious to me that Elon pretty much went "Ok you guys have been at a daycare the last few years, who wants to work an actual job." and then fired everyone who said no, and apparently this is the death of the company.

Also I just realized you could say "learn to code" to an overwhelming majority of Twitter layoffs and it's probably still applicable lmao
 
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man got rid of troons??? Lol semi humans is at least a step in the right direction
 
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These clowns are doing his job for him.

That said: I would probably be tempted to leave with a nice severance if I thought I could get another easy job at another worthless tech company.
 
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