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Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated to sabatouge the new owner over purely political issues. A few have even suggested it on their own twitter acco
by qull 4y ago
Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated to sabatouge the new owner over purely political issues. A few have even suggested it on their own twitter accounts. Elon is polarizing and that leads to both more challenges and more opprotunities.
- pavlov 4y ago“Fifth column” paranoia is a hallmark of authoritarian leadership.
- ForHackernews 4y agoA corporation is not a democracy. Most CEOs are are unitary authoritarian leaders within their own companies.
- gtowey 4y agoThere's a big difference in this case between a position of authority and an authoritarian leader. Typically most people would regard good leaders as people you follow because they inspire confidence, you feel like you can trust them, and that your efforts will be rewarded. Authoritarian leaders on the other hand are typically those who use their ability to punish people to force compliance. While the owner of a private company doesn't need the approval of their employees to make decisions I would never work for someone who uses threats and doesn't explain the rationale behind their decisions.
- ForHackernews 4y ago> I would never work for someone who uses threats and doesn't explain the rationale behind their decisions. You are extremely lucky and privileged to be able to make that choice while your skills are in high-demand.
- hodgesrm 4y agoPerhaps a better analogy is that the CEO is captain of the ship. You get credit for things going well but if things go wrong you are responsible. It does not matter who screwed up. There's a wide range of ways to implement that model ranging from despots like Chainsaw Al to consensus builders like Jim Whitehurst. [0, 1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Dunlap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Dunlap [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst
- upsidesinclude 4y ago>Tiktaalik 17 hours ago | prev | next [–] "I dunno why any Twitter engineers would be really trying that hard right now. Passively destroying Twitter from within by not trying, and trying to make a billionare lose 44 billion dollars is a significantly more fun and interesting challenge than making Twitter a better product." Huh
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoDid you just cite a random HN commenter who doesn't work at Twitter to prove what "Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated" to do?
- adamwk 4y agoThe quote is also unrelated to actively sabotaging the codebase. An L on multiple fronts
- upsidesinclude 4y agoHow could that be unrelated? An "L"? Are you 17?
- upsidesinclude 4y agoNope.
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoI'm curious why you thought that was relevant, then.
- upsidesinclude 4y agoI replied to this comment: >“Fifth column” paranoia is a hallmark of authoritarian leadership. Is it paranoia when within this very same thread people are making posts about ways to see the company fail? By omission or direct action, if the ideas are expressed here then they are held by workers at Twitter. Do you fail to see how this is relevant? They comment I replied to is making a rather poorly founded insinuation of authoritarian leadership, ie Musk, despite having 'lead' over the enterprise for days, at best. Presently this jibe, 'authoritarian' is being levied at conservatives & most absurdly at free speech advocates. The idiocy of such an assessment is, in fact, the operation of an authoritarian ideology. So, yes, I believe that makes it relevant.
- chinabot 4y agoDown vote the guy all you want but this does happen I've seen it with my own eyes.