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> Don't give notice, just stop showing up for work. I’d assume many of the employees that will be kept are grateful they don’t have to carry the low performers
by nemo44x 4y ago
> Don't give notice, just stop showing up for work.
I’d assume many of the employees that will be kept are grateful they don’t have to carry the low performers any longer. Game knows game and high performers want to work with similar people.
Why would the cohort of high performing employees walk out for the benefit of the low performing employees?
- _jal 4y agoWhy would a high performer put up with being treated like shit because the new guy regrets his stoned impulse buy? If I worked there, I'd walk.
- nemo44x 4y ago
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- UncleOxidant 4y agoSince you're so inspired sounds like maybe you should volunteer to go work there for free?
- piva00 4y agoYou sound terribly out of touch with reality, workaholism won't cure the void you feel in your soul... It can make you more money, which will just feel as empty as you are feeling right now.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoIt sounds like everyone is being required to work some pretty crazy hours. Why would even high performing employees want to be burned out when they could easily get another job?
- nemo44x 4y agoSad they’re asking people being paid many hundreds of thousands to put in some time to make real impact. The great engineers are inspired by this leadership. It’s like fresh oxygen. They have purpose.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoHi Elon! Sounds like you're smoking weed again.
- threeseed 4y agoMaybe you can educate us all on what Twitter's new purpose is. Because from what I've seen from Jason Calcanis, David Sacks etc they seem to be outsourcing product vision to their followers who have no skin in the game and plenty of hidden agendas. Can't imagine any great engineers finding that inspiring.
- fzeroracer 4y agoSo you're telling me that if your current job told you to do 12 hour work days 7 days a week, you'd leap right on that because it's inspiring?
- kcplate 4y agoWould and have. My wife is an insurance agent, basically that is her Q4.
- jakupovic 4y agoLol. Seriously just give up on your original assertion and say you're wrong. If not today, you will realize this eventually.
- kcplate 4y agoYou might consider the fact that some folks have a different work ethic and approach to their careers than you do. Also if I haven’t “realized” it in the 35 years that I have been doing this sort of thing…that perhaps there is nothing eventually to realize.
- threeseed 4y agoReading this comment I highly doubt you're a high performer. The really great people understand that life isn't a zero sum game and have a high degree of empathy and altruism for their team members. And they definitely see the bigger picture e.g. that firing 50% of the company (as is rumoured) is not going to be good for anyone.
- georgemcbay 4y ago> I highly doubt you're a high performer. They could also be young/naive, but.. yeah. I'm old enough to have survived large layoffs a couple of times in my career. In both instances a very large number of the "top performing" survivors left the company within a couple of months. Large layoffs tend to breed a sense of insecurity and insecurity tends to get the remaining people to scurry, and the first out the door are naturally going to be the ones with the most options because their skills are highly sought after. Putting it in very superficial terms... assuming you manage to get it right with choosing the "Cs" and lower on the layoffs, the As generally bolt soon after and you end up with a company full of Bs. At least that tends to be how it goes in my real world experience.
- fzeroracer 4y agoA lot of things managers and higher ups don't see is the human connection. You can look at the metrics, organize people by stack ranking and then fire the quote unquote worst performers, but those worst performers can also be core to the business in other ways by being good team players or good to work with. That's when you get Jim the all-star programmer leaving because John the slightly underperforming guy gets laid off and he no longer has anyone with relevant interests to talk to. That's assuming that John is underperforming as a whole and not just underperforming relative to his team, which his team could be generally high performance. So then instead of a 150% programmer and a 90% programmer, you end up replacing both of them with 110% programmers for a net loss in productivity.
- type-r 4y agoDepends on the current ratio of A/B/C/lower. If Musk thinks that As are currently rare at Twitter, then having a company full of Bs left could be a big improvement. I have no idea if this is true, but Twitter's profits and pace of innovation don't necessarily make me think they're filled to the brim with rockstars.
- Volundr 4y agoI've never met a "high performing employee" who is willing to work the kind of hours being demanded, especially to meet arbitrary deadlines. Frankly to high performers know their value and are far less likely to bow to this nonsense.
- jurassic 4y agoHigh-performing employees do not enjoy being abused the way Elon is abusing current Twitter employees. Being good at what you do does not make someone enjoy working 24/7 under threat of firing. They especially don't like doing it for somebody who is openly antagonistic and disrespectful towards them.