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Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had g

by ajkjk 4y ago

Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.

e40 4y ago
The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.
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- ajkjk 4y ago
  Oh yeah, not surprised. I'm just griping that there's a lot of assuming going on in here and it's worth, like, checking.
d35007 4y ago
How many are left? /s
acomjean 4y ago
I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round. Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..
teg4n_ 4y ago
Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.
- jeffrallen 4y ago
  Stock options in a non public company are only as valuable as the boss decides to make them. They do work as toilet paper though.
reducesuffering 4y ago
Blind has a sentiment analysis called 'Pulse' where verified employees answer survey Q's about their company. Employee morale has driven off a cliff.
PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Layoffs are always morale-killers. Twitter isn't particularly special in this regard, and if Twitter found a way to lay off 50% within 3 days to a boost of morale to the remaining workforce that would be finally be the one truly innovative accomplishment its done, lol.
freejazz 4y ago
Yes, I cannot wait for the chance to take my own company's legal liability onto my own shoulders so I can prove how faithful I am to my new leader!!
giantrobot 4y ago
Even the biggest Musk fanboy at Twitter isn't immune to the morale hit from a doubling or trebling of their workload because their team was cut in half from layoffs. What consolation is the company "getting back on course" if you've got to work 70+ hour weeks for the next several months. No time off, sleeping at your desk, never seeing family, and certainly no holiday time off. At the end you now work for a Musk company so your compensation will lag the SV mean. I feel bad for anyone in that position that feels happy. That's just a really sad Stockholm syndrome at that point.

by ajkjk 4y ago

e40 4y ago

The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.

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ajkjk 4y ago
Oh yeah, not surprised. I'm just griping that there's a lot of assuming going on in here and it's worth, like, checking.

d35007 4y ago

How many are left? /s

acomjean 4y ago

I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round. Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..

teg4n_ 4y ago

Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.

jeffrallen 4y ago
Stock options in a non public company are only as valuable as the boss decides to make them. They do work as toilet paper though.

reducesuffering 4y ago

Blind has a sentiment analysis called 'Pulse' where verified employees answer survey Q's about their company. Employee morale has driven off a cliff.

PuppyTailWags 4y ago

Layoffs are always morale-killers. Twitter isn't particularly special in this regard, and if Twitter found a way to lay off 50% within 3 days to a boost of morale to the remaining workforce that would be finally be the one truly innovative accomplishment its done, lol.

freejazz 4y ago

Yes, I cannot wait for the chance to take my own company's legal liability onto my own shoulders so I can prove how faithful I am to my new leader!!

giantrobot 4y ago

Even the biggest Musk fanboy at Twitter isn't immune to the morale hit from a doubling or trebling of their workload because their team was cut in half from layoffs. What consolation is the company "getting back on course" if you've got to work 70+ hour weeks for the next several months. No time off, sleeping at your desk, never seeing family, and certainly no holiday time off. At the end you now work for a Musk company so your compensation will lag the SV mean. I feel bad for anyone in that position that feels happy. That's just a really sad Stockholm syndrome at that point.