When you have a crisis you need all hands on deck. Nobody hiding at home. We need to pull up our socks and get back to work.
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@9ylz you lot have been conned by Dotard, Musk, all the crypto bros and every televangelist since the advent of TV.
@7qhm, You got that halfway correct, only it’s the left-wingers you’re talking about. Wake up, silly.
“ Imagine if Chevron tried…” needless to say, we are lucky our management is not as stupid as Musk. As painful and unfocused as our layoffs tend to be, they are nothing like what Twitter is gong through. Twitter, if it survives, will have a long slow rebuilding process ahead because it did not do a careful bottom up review of its business before chopping off limbs.
I know half a dozen San Ramone IT geeks who moved on over to Twitter to avoid the Houston move. I wander how they feel now!
I know half a dozen San Ramone IT geeks who moved on over to Twitter to avoid the Houston move. I wonder how they feel now!
"Musk told employees on Wednesday that those who choose to stay will be required to commit to working “long hours at high intensity” and presumably agreeing to Musk’s demand for Twitter employees, who have been largely working remotely, to return to in-office work. "
Imagine if Chevron tried this with all our snowflakes! They would all burst into tears at once!
Twitter reportedly down to 238 employees, speculation most of those are H1B and literally cannot quit without leaving the US. Office locked up today, no badge access.
WFH aside and politics be damned, musk’s handling of twitter has…not gone that well.
The right-wing kooks do have a way of getting conned by loudmouth m0r0ns.
I hope Wirth never decides to drop $44 bln on an acquistion just so internet trolls can dunk on him 24/7.
Yeah, Musk is ending WFH. Did you know he just ended the free lunch at work as well?
What does WFH have anything at all to do with red-necks? I think some of the pitiful sore losers on this site just want someone to hurl their ill-thought insults at. Glad whoever it was hit a nerve, anyway.
Seems like a lot of r ed necks on here desperate to get people in the office are make sure people are being controlled, same attitude for a couple hundred years from these people. People are working just fine from home and have more time with family and for yourself. If you want quality workers then respect them and give them their lives back. No more companies rule everyone.
I wouldn’t put it passed Musk to take a run at Chevron…
Everyone remember when this very stable genius disables “micro services” bloat ware and nuked mfa on twitter?
Uh, yeah, WFH unsupervised forever, what could possibly go wrong? LMAO!
Everyone knows you have to be super smart to be a billionaire. It’s why Capitalism is so great!
@1xkf You’ve obviously never worked for the guy.
To the person praising him for firing half the workforce, many of those people have been called and asked to come back. You know not of what you speak.
This MFer got fired from PayPal for wanting to migrate the backend to windows.
Fast forward and he’s asking SEs to print their work for code reviews and is ranking them by lines of code committed.
A true technological genius. Edsger Dijkstra chose to die rather then be overshadowed by musk’s incendiary brilliance.
Never bet against Musk. Twitter is going to take over all the content and functionality of PayPal, TikTok, YouTube and OnlyFans. Mark my words.
Firing half the workforce is a good way to make sure you have everyone’s attention.
WFH has always been an excuse to work at 50% effort (if even that).
If there's a crisis at Twitter, it's of Musk's own making. How will working in the office change a damn thing when the poor decisions are coming from the top?
"When you have a crisis you need all hands on deck. Nobody hiding at home."
Firing half the workforce wi--y-nilly is a strange way of getting all hands on deck. Dude is a m0r0n.
Business genius has in less than two weeks:
Twitter Blue got rid of ad-free articles for its subscribers
Major advertisers paused their spending
The lady in charge of advertiser relationships quit
Musk fired half the workforce
Musk discovered he needed to rehire some of the workforce
Musk noted there’s been a major drop in revenue
Twitter planned to charge $20 / month for Twitter Blue
Musk then revised that to $8 / month after Stephen King complained
A bunch of people, including celebrities, impersonated Musk on Twitter and got booted
Twitter briefly disabled letting verified users change their display names
Twitter said user growth is at its all-time highs under Musk
Musk sold another $4 billion in Tesla shares
Twitter rolled out gray checks for “official” accounts
The same day, Musk ki---d the gray checks
Musk’s first emails to employees: “Sorry that this is my first email to the company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message. The economic picture ahead is dire.”
“Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.”
Musk warns it’s possible Twitter will go bankrupt
Sign me the f' up for all that mess. Who wouldn't want to be involved?
Now it’s WFO (work from office), as it always used to be, and should. If you want to work from home, become a freelance novelist.
@1rjn I take your point.
He’s not a anything close to a great business man.
He was born to mining baron and built his business using a combination of family wealth and government subsidies. In some of his businesses, he did literally nothing; the technology was essentially copied & pasted from work that has long since been done by government agencies, and he outsourced his most challenging problems to non-profits.
I have no idea how he has convinced so many people that he’s some sort of real-life “Iron Man”. It’s absurd in the most existential way thinkable.
@OP You might last a week working for him, assuming you could even get hired at one of his companies (only about 5% of applicants are extended offers at Tesla, same for SpaceX). Apply for a job at one of his companies and see what happens. My guess is that the AI will scan your application and reject you in a nanosecond (that’s 10^-9s, in case you’re wondering).
WFH is generally offered as a perk in lieu of higher pay to seasoned white-collar professionals with an in-demand skill (ex. machine learning). It isn’t what you seem to think it is. Your remarks are typical of a person who has little in the way of formal education and subsequently minimal understanding of knowledge-based work.
The layoffs at Twitter are focused on middle-management and other soft-skills. Many people I know there are still WFH. The best people left months ago. Several are being asked to come back.
You evidently know very little about anything happening outside of the carbon-drenched swamp that is the oil and gas industry.
I thank you in advance for the massive number of downvotes, and I’ll take them as an indication that I touched a nerve.
This supposed great businessman is going to lose his backside on the Twitter deal. $44 bln and he didn't even bother with due diligence? Yeah, just a regular ol' John D. Rockefeller there.
Well at almost $90 a barrel and possibly going higher with the OPEC cut, we are not in crisis, actually we stay out of it by staying home.
Knock yourself out! Office is open everyday.
Musk is America’s greatest businessman. The Carnegie of the 21st century. Nothing like the robotrons and muppets running CVX.
Troll comments or real? The Musk bootie kissing is pathetic. Just like Trumpies.
I agree - we have really lost our edge at this point.
Time MW grew a pair qnd followed Musk's example, come to office or your out of a job. Far too many of the staff are hiding qt hone claiming they are working
He is an id--t. Going to lose a lot of his twitter workforce
No one is stopping you from going in.