Elon Bought Twitter- X GON GIVE IT TO YA

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Its pretty fucking  to be shit talking elon on the company forums if you don't want to get fired when he's shown himself to be petty enough to personally call people out for writing shit code on twitter after laying them off

[Potato]

Again and again Twatter people are exposed as being unprofessional idiots.

Did they not notice management changed and he was doing things differently?

Just because you used to be able to criticise your bosses doesn't mean you will continue to be able to do that under new ownership.

Read the fucking room you idiots.

[Occam]

Are the people he fires entitled to severance packages?
If so, getting kicked out now may not be the worst thing. There is lots of demand for software engineers.

[Tasty]

https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221

Urge to install my own Mastodon instance rising

[benjipwns]

Are the people he fires entitled to severance packages?
If so, getting kicked out now may not be the worst thing. There is lots of demand for software engineers.

Other than any minor legal requirements by the state this would depend on their contract if they have one. While tech companies are often unique, Twitter is old enough and has been public long enough that I would assume only the executives have them. Although that one guy had been there for a while he still seems to be more of a random engineer from what I saw.

[benjipwns]

https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221

Urge to install my own Mastodon instance rising

Eugen Rochko, the software’s German creator, explained amid a flood of new users this month that he’d adopted the word “toot” early on at the urging of a popular Youtuber who’d offered him financial support as long as he continued using the term, which in addition to describing the noise created by a horn is — in American English at least — a synonym for the word “fart.”

Rochko said at the time he was unaware of the connotation.

Gross.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592582828499570688

[HaughtyFrank]

Are the people he fires entitled to severance packages?
If so, getting kicked out now may not be the worst thing. There is lots of demand for software engineers.

With Twitter, Facebook and Amazon laying off thousands the competition is probably not that much fun right now

[Polident Hive]

Yeah. Desperate throws to make Twitter firings, or losing free lunches or whatever, sympathetic human rights issues is falling flat when Meta and Amazon are rocking higher rates. It’s pretty bad all around. But the focus is on Musk atm so nobody cares about those other billionaires.

Well, that’s not all true. Some bought the fluff piece about Bezos giving away his money. See, some billionaire tech giants are real ones! To pee in a bottle on the job is to pee for Bezos!

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/EclipseShade69/status/1592689786049159168
https://twitter.com/thebeepthemeep/status/1592691821217746944
https://twitter.com/JoeyBFutureMVP/status/1592688742846050305
https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon/status/1592707609513324545

[james]

Worlds smartest man

https://mobile.twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1592907779316252672

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1592871281153650688

The way he's running the company is truly hilarious.

[Tuckers Law]

https://twitter.com/EclipseShade69/status/1592689786049159168
https://twitter.com/thebeepthemeep/status/1592691821217746944
https://twitter.com/JoeyBFutureMVP/status/1592688742846050305
https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon/status/1592707609513324545

 

I love this.

[james]

https://twitter.com/donie/status/1592859900941852674

[Uncle]

honestly should have led with this form initially and THEN done the mass firing once you weeded out the people who aren't hardcore

[Nintex]

The lazy ones will hate this, those that want to go hardcore will only be more commited to the cause.
Those willing to work also know that rewards await them. Historically people that worked at Elon's companies have been well compensated for the work they did.

[who is ted danson?]

Me going hardcore to optimise Yum Brands ad clickthrough rates on twitter
 

[who is ted danson?]

https://twitter.com/greenTetra_/status/1592914266117795840

[Boredfrom]

honestly should have led with this form initially and THEN done the mass firing once you weeded out the people who aren't hardcore

While I don’t think it is good in the long run (San Francisco hipster engineers are not exactly cool with work),he definitely should have done that . Avoids most of the bad press and filters everyone that is not a loyalist (what I suppose he wants) willing to sleep at the floor.

[james]

WTF would anyone stay?

The whole reason to crunch is for a massive payoff via an IPO or being bought by Google.

Or, in very specific cases, working "for the greater good" if youre into the "Mars for humanity" style dream.

Twitter offers neither.

Everyone knows he massively overpaid, so if he offloads it, it would be for significantly less.

And ranting about "potential bankruptcy" and slashing costs left and right doesnt exactly spell "big payoff soon".

Unless youre on a visa, "work 12 hour days so people can pay money to shitpost" is nobodies dream.

And while Elon is all about the "impending recession" talk, none of that is reflected in the data. Hiring is still robust. Walmart just reported very high sales. The big news about Amazon firing people? 1.2%.

[Potato]

People really are that stupid James. They really are.

[james]

People really are that stupid James. They really are.

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1592955427179765760

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

WTF would anyone stay?

The whole reason to crunch is for a massive payoff via an IPO or being bought by Google.

Or, in very specific cases, working "for the greater good" if youre into the "Mars for humanity" style dream.

Twitter offers neither.

Everyone knows he massively overpaid, so if he offloads it, it would be for significantly less.

And ranting about "potential bankruptcy" and slashing costs left and right doesnt exactly spell "big payoff soon".

Unless youre on a visa, "work 12 hour days so people can pay money to shitpost" is nobodies dream.

And while Elon is all about the "impending recession" talk, none of that is reflected in the data. Hiring is still robust. Walmart just reported very high sales. The big news about Amazon firing people? 1.2%.

If Musk wanted a bunch of employees to work long hours with low pay, he should’ve just bought ResetEra.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/greenTetra_/status/1592914266117795840

[benjipwns]

Musk makes the same "hardcore" directive at every company and has since at least X.com. He has never outlined exactly what this means and I get the impression none of the management at any of the companies is actually ensuring the employees are in fact hardcore.

[Nintex]

Yeah it seems more like a rally the troops kind of thing. He also sets the example by working hard. Classic Musk move.

[Uncle]

sounds like serious shit going down right now, mass walk out protest?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/twitter-employees-ultimatum-deadline

someone said 500k tweets with the hashtag #riptwitter?

[Propagandhim]

What if Twitter implodes and everyone comes to TheBore for their social media fix?? Can our servers handle it? 

[Tasty]

This forum software can't even handle returning a large search result to a single user without momentarily hitching the site up for everyone lol

[Uncle]

total staffing is down 89%?

[headwalk]

i feel like the robot machine god who elon serves has serverely underestimated the human capacity to not work any harder than they absolutely have to. laziness will deliver us like the common cold in war of the worlds.

[james]

Called it. The only incentive to stay was a visa and you can bet they've been sending out resumes as fast as they can

https://mobile.twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593391954976382979

[Occam]

Hahahaha! Looks like he overplayed his hand. Good for them! Who wouldn't want to work for a fickle narcissist who went to the Kim Jong-Un School of Leadership? So what's Elmo going to do now? Fire everyone else as announced or give in and become even more of a laughing stock?

Maybe some of the weird nerds who keep coming to his defense are coders who would like to worship him from up close?

[benjipwns]

Who wouldn't want to work for a fickle narcissist who went to the Kim Jong-Un School of Leadership? So what's Elmo going to do now?

You really got to stop picking up all your lingo from BlueAnon orbiting grifters my man.

[Occam]

You mean "Elmo"? I thought it was funny. I wouldn't have known about it if it hadn't been posted in this very thread; I do not waste my time following these people around.

Edit: It's purportedly become his nickname inside the company, too:
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-insiders-users-calling-elon-musk-by-the-nickname-elmo-2022-11?op=1

[Potato]

I thought Elno was far more clever and insulting. El-no, Hell-no...you get my drift...

 

[benjipwns]

I do not waste my time following these people around.

You'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of this considering how much you post all their favorite scams like The Lincoln Project and are often on about every topic they are. BIONIC (and others) probably wishes I would refrain from telling people when they're being openly "cringe" anyway so they keep doing it.

[Occam]

How would you know, do you follow them around? As you may have noticed, I do not even participate in the Other Forums Containment thread (I haven't been to Resetera in many years.) Maybe all this exposure to awfulness is starting to warp your perception? I have no idea what the favorite scams of the "BlueAnon orbiting grifters" are.

[BIONIC]

I do not waste my time following these people around.

You'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of this considering how much you post all their favorite scams like The Lincoln Project and are often on about every topic they are. BIONIC (and others) probably wishes I would refrain from telling people when they're being openly "cringe" anyway so they keep doing it.

I always call him Elno Muskrat because I’m hip with the kids 

[benjipwns]

Every single one of these people, everyone associated with The Lincoln Project, a hilarious number of the Democratic PACs out there, an endless number of self-declared journalists, etc.

edit: TinyURL'd so tweet won't embed, it's just a link to a tweet full of usernames and a picture, nothing nefarious.

[Occam]

While you wrote this I made a post about it in the US politics thread, this really doesn't belong here.

[benjipwns]

I think it is relevant here in one way, while I was just poking fun at the language you used, a lot of these people seem to think they're actually influential on and because of Twitter.

[Occam]

That would be delusional.

[Occam]

Anyway, if all the employees who were fired/left got together now, they'd presumably have enough knowledge/manpower to immediately start a new company like Twitter. Except without Musk. Wouldn't that be hilarious?

Edit: Hundreds more have have resigned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html

Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay

Mr. Musk, Twitter’s new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”

Or like I wrote above, they could leave and build Twitter 2.0

Mr. Musk and his advisers held meetings with some Twitter workers whom they deemed “critical” to stop them from leaving, four people with knowledge of the conversations said. He sent out confusing messages about the company’s remote work policy, appearing to soften his stance on not allowing people to work from home before warning their managers, according to those people and internal emails viewed by The New York Times.

All the while, two people said, resignations started to roll in. By the deadline, 5 p.m. Eastern time, hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to have decided to depart with three months of severance pay, the people said. Twitter later announced via email that it would close “our office buildings” and disable employee badge access until Monday.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/1593463977824071681

[HaughtyFrank]

I don't really understand what Musk was planning there.

"Alright we're going hardcore, if you don't like that you can quit"

*People quit*

Musk: 

Either he's truly an idiot or he wanted people to quit

[Uncle]

I don't really understand what Musk was planning there.

"Alright we're going hardcore, if you don't like that you can quit"

*People quit*

Musk: 

Either he's truly an idiot or he wanted people to quit

yeah really I'm not sure if the pikachu part happened

"reportedly" he "tearfully begged" some employees to stay "while on his hands and knees"

but in advance of his takeover at various times he'd said he wanted to gut 75-90% of the workforce

it's just there are longer term, less chaotic ways of doing so, but he's getting what he said he wanted and tweeting for attention the whole way

[Occam]

In a twist shocking no one, turns out that Musk is a fraud who has been lying about having a scientific degree for decades and actually was in the USA illegally for a few years.
Someone took the time to research this using publicly available court documents:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593307541932474368.html

[BisMarckie]

In a twist shocking no one, turns out that Musk is a fraud who has been lying about having a scientific degree for decades and actually was in the USA illegally for a few years.
Someone took the time to research this using publicly available court documents:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593307541932474368.html

Pretty sure that's doxxing according to bluechecks on twitter

[Potato]

In a twist shocking no one, turns out that Musk is a fraud who has been lying about having a scientific degree for decades and actually was in the USA illegally for a few years.
Someone took the time to research this using publicly available court documents:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593307541932474368.html

Pretty sure that's doxxing according to bluechecks on twitter

Blue checks don't like Musk so it doesn't count to them

[Madrun Badrun]

Occam read the room, man.  If you want to contribute maybe try a platitude like: Elon has a history of high expectations and exploiting workers.  It's pretty  for Twitter employees to think that they wouldn't be treated just the same as someone working at Tesla and Space-X, despite never agreeing to work for those companies.  This really just shows how entitled and unprofessional these people are for publicly complaining about being expected to work harder and cover for all the people who just got fired.  Also, as a twitter user myself, I know for certain that they could have been working harder in any case.  Like imagine publicly advocating for fair working conditions and not expect any consequences.  The worst thing in all this is the tweets from SJWs exaggerating the situation, not the situation visa workers who can't leave now face.   

[Madrun Badrun]

My whole take on the situation is that at first I really didn't like this Musk guy, but then I saw a tweet where some loony compared his take over to apartheid, and now I just don't know what to think.  Like clearly all sides are awful, but it's kind of nice when one of the most powerful people in the world can give a little push back, you know?  Anyways, I think the rational position here is just to say that the world is as it is and anyone who expects anything different is nuts. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Oh, I just ventured into the Culture War thread and saw 100 more loony tweets shared by the best people.  Kinda low key rooting for Musk now.  It's funny how I'm generally anti-establishment and for workers but, those Twitter people man.  I know just the kind of people they are and I don't like them. 

I'm a pretty smart guy and to have my opinion changed so easily by the tweets from a bunch of terminally online losses really says something about them.

[Occam]

At first you didn't like him but then you saw the tweet by a crazy person and that changed your mind? [Edit, oh, you were joking].

Anyway, lots of people were critical of Musk before all this, and then he went ahead and showed everyone that they all underestimated his awfulness.

Back on topic, I read that by now some ~90 percent of Twitter's engineers are gone and that it will not be possible to keep running Twitter for long this way. We'll find out soon enough.

Yesterday Twitter

announced via email that it would close “our office buildings” and disable employee badge access until Monday.

(NYT)
That's totally normal.

[HaughtyFrank]

The panic about twitter dying is a bit curious. Pretty anecdotal but going by my follows it's mainly Americans who talk about how it's basically over while for Europeans it's just another day.

Also, while I'm not really sure if Musk knows what he's doing, this could be an interesting experiment in how many workers a social media website really needs

https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1593622087603625988

[james]

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593649356661436417

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593652897236934656

[Occam]

Is Elon alone in the building?

[james]

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593665774744350721

 

[Occam]

Getting on their private jets right now and flying over really is the least they could do to show how much they appreciate dear leader.

[who is ted danson?]

How long until

"twitter has suffered a massive hack / user data breach"

?