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Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Le

Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill to pay, with no one to keep the lights on or answer the PagerDuty alerts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? No time for silly "knowledge transfers", or "onboarding new team members". You just wake up to learn everybody left and you're left with nothing.

kleiba 4y ago
Friday afternoon: 100% of Twitter's staff are competing with each other to find a new job.
- loloquwowndueo 4y ago
  Competing with 11k people fired from Meta. FTFY
- jreese 4y ago
  ... and everyone laid off from Meta this week ...
- csmpltn 4y ago
  Half of them were already fired (more will probably follow), and the rest will be messed with for months (if not years) to come (as is evident by the email being discussed here). Having nothing to lose...
- grumple 4y ago
  370k software engineer jobs listed on linkedin right now. So each person laid off from these companies gets to choose between 10 open roles at other companies. And that's just what's listed on linkedin; most jobs aren't.
  - cableshaft 4y ago
    There aren't 370k jobs paying FAANG or near-FAANG compensation and benefits. Probably about 10% of that is paying anywhere near what Twitter employees are used to getting. I'm making close to the low end of an entry level software engineer at Twitter according to levels.fyi, and I'm making above average for senior software engineers in my region, based on recruiter/job posting salary ranges and posted salaries on these websites. Haven't gotten a regional recruiter offering anything competitive in the past year since I started this job. Also the unlisted jobs paying anywhere near Twitter level compensation is probably close to 0%, so no need to add them to the mix.
UncleOxidant 4y ago
> Play stupid games, win stupid prices Prizes. Win stupid prizes.
- csmpltn 4y ago
  You got it, chief.
coffeeblack 4y ago
You stay home then. I’d go (if I worked at Tw).
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yrgulation 4y ago
Sounds like something i would love to do. Musk, the peepole farmer, would be in for a treat. But those who wish to fill in their social voids with onsite work wouldn't be game.
unwind 4y ago
Don't typical contracts for people like Twitter's staff in the US come with timing requirements on quitting? As in, you can't really quit "on the day", you have to leave proper notice and so on? I understand that in practice once someone says "I quit!" there might be little interest from the employer to keep them around, but in a scenario like you outline I would be very afraid of legal ramifications. Just a thought, I don't really have an opinion here, Twitter is pretty "meh" in my view. I of course hope it ends well for the employees! Edit: spelling, and fix weird final double bang.
- yazaddaruvala 4y ago
  Most states in the US are "At will employment". You can quit on the day! It is just not considered "polite" / "professional".
  - jeffrallen 4y ago
    Buying a company, firing all the executives and then half the employees is also not very polite or professional. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
  - Leherenn 4y ago
    Are there any restrictions on timing your quitting so that it damages your employer as much as possible? Like, I don't know, a senior sale person quitting 2 minutes into a meeting to sign a massive contract, the company lawyer quitting 5 minutes before representing the company in a trial, or somesuch.
- eep_social 4y ago
  No. Off the top of my head, my understanding is that the vast majority of full time jobs in the US are at-will employment which means there is no required notice period. It’s considered a best practice to give two weeks or more but that’s a social contract and not enforceable in any way. In the past, when employee reference checks were a real thing, that two weeks might buy you a better reference, but even that has been stripped away now with references handled by HR and only confirming dates of employment and conditions of termination (this is to avoid lawsuits I think).
thrown_22 4y ago
If only software devs had setup a union or something. No, we're too privileged to be fired: https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere Oops: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter
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cwilkes 4y ago
Musk: “revenue per employee (1 remaining) has gone through the roof!”

kleiba 4y ago

Friday afternoon: 100% of Twitter's staff are competing with each other to find a new job.

loloquwowndueo 4y ago
Competing with 11k people fired from Meta. FTFY
jreese 4y ago
... and everyone laid off from Meta this week ...
csmpltn 4y ago
Half of them were already fired (more will probably follow), and the rest will be messed with for months (if not years) to come (as is evident by the email being discussed here). Having nothing to lose...
grumple 4y ago
370k software engineer jobs listed on linkedin right now. So each person laid off from these companies gets to choose between 10 open roles at other companies. And that's just what's listed on linkedin; most jobs aren't.
- cableshaft 4y ago
  There aren't 370k jobs paying FAANG or near-FAANG compensation and benefits. Probably about 10% of that is paying anywhere near what Twitter employees are used to getting. I'm making close to the low end of an entry level software engineer at Twitter according to levels.fyi, and I'm making above average for senior software engineers in my region, based on recruiter/job posting salary ranges and posted salaries on these websites. Haven't gotten a regional recruiter offering anything competitive in the past year since I started this job. Also the unlisted jobs paying anywhere near Twitter level compensation is probably close to 0%, so no need to add them to the mix.

UncleOxidant 4y ago

> Play stupid games, win stupid prices Prizes. Win stupid prizes.

csmpltn 4y ago
You got it, chief.

coffeeblack 4y ago

You stay home then. I’d go (if I worked at Tw).

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yrgulation 4y ago

Sounds like something i would love to do. Musk, the peepole farmer, would be in for a treat. But those who wish to fill in their social voids with onsite work wouldn't be game.

unwind 4y ago

Don't typical contracts for people like Twitter's staff in the US come with timing requirements on quitting? As in, you can't really quit "on the day", you have to leave proper notice and so on? I understand that in practice once someone says "I quit!" there might be little interest from the employer to keep them around, but in a scenario like you outline I would be very afraid of legal ramifications. Just a thought, I don't really have an opinion here, Twitter is pretty "meh" in my view. I of course hope it ends well for the employees! Edit: spelling, and fix weird final double bang.

yazaddaruvala 4y ago
Most states in the US are "At will employment". You can quit on the day! It is just not considered "polite" / "professional".
- jeffrallen 4y ago
  Buying a company, firing all the executives and then half the employees is also not very polite or professional. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
- Leherenn 4y ago
  Are there any restrictions on timing your quitting so that it damages your employer as much as possible? Like, I don't know, a senior sale person quitting 2 minutes into a meeting to sign a massive contract, the company lawyer quitting 5 minutes before representing the company in a trial, or somesuch.
eep_social 4y ago
No. Off the top of my head, my understanding is that the vast majority of full time jobs in the US are at-will employment which means there is no required notice period. It’s considered a best practice to give two weeks or more but that’s a social contract and not enforceable in any way. In the past, when employee reference checks were a real thing, that two weeks might buy you a better reference, but even that has been stripped away now with references handled by HR and only confirming dates of employment and conditions of termination (this is to avoid lawsuits I think).

thrown_22 4y ago

If only software devs had setup a union or something. No, we're too privileged to be fired: https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere Oops: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter

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cwilkes 4y ago

Musk: “revenue per employee (1 remaining) has gone through the roof!”