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Wow. IF (if!) this is true, I really hope every single Twitter employee sends Musk an email saying "fuck you" and walks out. There's just now call for treating
by mindcrime 4y ago
Wow. IF (if!) this is true, I really hope every single Twitter employee sends Musk an email saying "fuck you" and walks out. There's just now call for treating people like this.
EDIT: let me expand this to say, it might not be as bad as it sounds if there's some massive reward (beyond just "keeping your job") tied to this or something. And I have no problem working 80+ hours a week.. I do it all the time myself. It's just that approximately every hour past 40 that I work in a week is working on my own project, not working for my employer. But that's something I choose to take on and where the potential reward if I'm successful (arguably) justifies it. It's hard to imagine any company paying a routine salary that would even come close to justifying working hours like that though, at least for me. But hey, everybody is different. So I guess I'd amend my post to say I hope almost every single Twitter employee ...
- adam_arthur 4y agoWell, that’s his intention. To force resignations
- mindcrime 4y agoWell, to a point. It could be self-defeating if enough people quit. Worst case it could effectively end Twitter as an ongoing concern. I doubt that would happen, but ya never know.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoExtremely doubtful. There is no shortage of people looking for work.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoExcept the lowest unemployment numbers in USA. That might be an issue. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/1116036160/the-unemployment-rate-fell-to-3-5-matching-its-lowest-level-in-the-last-50-years https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/1116036160/the-unemployment-r...
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoTo be fair, NPR is state media and the state has a motive for stating certain things that mispresent the truth.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago> state has a motive for stating certain things that mispresent the truth. If you want to cast doubt on some reporting you should provide some evidence not just say you think state has a motive for "stating certain things". Else people will reasonably wonder whether you have a motive for "stating certain things".
- dragonwriter 4y ago> NPR is state media No, its not. VOA, Radio Free Europe, and other US Agency for Global Media outlets are US state media. NPR neither has government editorial control or predominant government funding (direct and indirect government funding amounts to around 10% of its total revenue).
- RavingGoat 4y agoLMAO, the earth is flat too, right?
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoLMAO, no, but your reasoning is.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoTreating people like what? Asking them to be productive and get shit done? Should Musk hand out hugs and participation trophies? Maybe little "You can do it!" stickers? There are 7500 employees at twitter and nobody seems to know what they are working on. The bureaucracy at Twitter was poison and the entire company had lost billions under the old management. The free lunch, wheatgrass smoothies, and safes paces are coming to an end. Get to work. That's why you're there. Don't want to work? Go pretend to work someplace else. It really is that simple. The people who want to work will stay.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoThis is not how you get people productive. This is how you grind them into burnt out husks of themselves and massively hurt company in the long run.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoI don't entirely disagree with you, but at the same time, if you want to make $140,000 to $250,000/year working for someone else, then at times you will need to burn bright.