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He’s Fired

74 points by atdrummond 4y ago

mathlover2 4y ago
On a scale of 0 (hiring at Twitter is as easy as possible) to 100 (Twitter can never hire anyone again) how bad is it now that Musk fired an employee in front of millions of users, especially since the employee was calling out obvious bullshit?
- AmericanOP 4y ago
  For specifically calling him out on a probable lie
  - mathlover2 4y ago
    That too. Corrected ;) (I'm multitasking and on phone; pardon my terseness)
- dymk 4y ago
  Awaiting the lawsuit against him because of the obvious constructive dismissal going on
  - gruez 4y ago
    On what grounds? Most of US is at will employment, so the worst that he's subject to is something like california's WARN act which requires 60 days notice. However, AFAIK the employees are still receiving a paycheck, just that they have nothing to do and are locked out of the company's systems.
    - bamboozled 4y ago
      I just want to say that this attitude towards employment will likely be part of the eventual downfall of the USA. The reason ? It's too risky to tell your boss the truth so when things are going bad so it's easier just not to say anything, I noticed my American colleagues will often not say anything to "the grand leader", they will maybe even encourage stupidity. Where as when I worked in Europe, that doesn't happen. Not claiming those places are super powers, but I think this "shoot from the hip" American attitude towards staff will be it's undoing.
      - missingcolours 4y ago
        Nah. Everywhere I've ever worked, you can tell any boss things they don't want to hear. What you have to do is do it respectfully. I've told directors and VPs multiple levels up from me that I thought they were wrong about something in large meetings. I said it to their face and respectfully, and that was fine. As long as you understand your place and don't publicly trash your boss, there's normally no problem. The tweet in question here was... not that.
        bmitc 4y ago
        Was his original tweet actually disrespectful? His CEO is openly ridiculing his own company's engineering teams, and he simply said that what Musk said was wrong. The second tweet had some more sass to it to match the tweet he was responding to, but it also wasn't all that bad. He points out the above in that Musk should be bringing these things up internally rather than publicly belittling his own employees with what appears to be incorrect information.
        bamboozled 4y ago
        It's not about that, it's that you have to think and put a lot of mental energy into "being respectful" rather than just being straight forwards and direct. You have to wait for the right time etc. Giving feedback has higher risk and cost to it than it would otherwise be so why even do it? While I'm not claiming it's an immediate crisis, I think it is and will continue to become a net long term loss for corporate American culture. Musk is now teaching the world you can just fire people for saying anything you don't like without even a phone call, it will only make people more apprehensive to talk more freely.
        mathlover2 4y ago
        I think more than anything else Musk is teaching people to never apply to any company he owns under any circumstances. This isn't going to be treated as a role model for managers. It's going to be a model of exactly what not to do as a CEO, not just on HR issues, but everything else. I seriously don't see Twitter ever being able to hire a worker of any significant skill level ever again.
    - dymk 4y ago
      That’s not how constructive dismissal works. If your company decides they want to soft-layoff, they can’t just make it miserable and hope people quit. They’ll be sued, and courts will find the departures equivalent to a layoff if enough people leave.
- atdrummond 4y ago
  I suppose Elon misunderstood what “build in public” meant.
  - bmitc 4y ago
    And free speech and everything else he touts. Yet again, it's an example of: don't tell Musk he is wrong, especially in public. Musk has also, presumably, removed the conversation shown here from Twitter: https://twitter.com/ichdertom/status/1592217628214722560/photo/1 https://twitter.com/ichdertom/status/1592217628214722560/pho...
    - kevinmchugh 4y ago
      What's the order of events here? Between "I can say this is wrong", this "what have you done?" exchange, and "he's fired"?
      - bmitc 4y ago
        I get the feeling it is in the order that you listed. The in between discussion doesn’t seem to show on Twitter unless one has the direct link.
  - threatofrain 4y ago
    It's a shame because Elon was certainly enjoying the prerogative to shit on that team's work.
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  TBH I was already pretty against working under Musk because of his previous speech and behavior. I think this was basically another instance of the same. It certainly cements my views.
- hintymad 4y ago
  Here might be another reason for not working for Musk: he asked an executive of his, Jerome Guillen, to "forfeit some unvested equity" because he thought that "some employees were making more from Tesla than he thought their contributions merited", per WSJ. I assume that Guillen was going to get the unvested equity if Musk didn't ask, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue at all.
gruez 4y ago
Who got fired here? I'm presuming it's @EricFrohnhoefer, but his profile says he's "Still @twitter".
- atdrummond 4y ago
  Eric has also acknowledged it.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1592287037805441024 https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15922870378054410...
superchroma 4y ago
When will elon get that this stuff isn't a cool "haha high five bro nice one" moment, and is instead just a sad display of managerial power, akin to sending a dish back to the kitchen in a restaurant.
- quantified 4y ago
  It probably is one to his peer group.
  - sidibe 4y ago
    As long as he gets the wave of approvers oohing and aahing at each of his tweets, he doesn't care about anything or anyone else. Where have I seen this behavior before? Certain egomaniacs really get addicted to their Twitter fanboys.
    - superchroma 4y ago
      Let's not pretend there's that much overlap between trump fans and musk fans.
      - nikau 4y ago
        True, trump at least says his catch phrase 'you're fired' to their face
      - quantified 4y ago
        There may not be, but behaviors can be shared by groups that have very different tastes. Think religions, soccer, etc.
fragmede 4y ago
https://twitter.com/ericfrohnhoefer/status/1592287037805441024 https://twitter.com/ericfrohnhoefer/status/15922870378054410... is the tweet that makes it official
green_on_black 4y ago
Here we see the ruling class unleashing their serfs against the bourgeoisie, a tale as old as tales.
- draw_down 4y ago
deleted 4y ago
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karmakaze 4y ago
The 'device tweet was written on' looks like cargo cult of blue bubbles vs green.
- adamrezich 4y ago
  it made more sense back when the API was more open and third-party clients were the norm
  - karmakaze 4y ago
    It only makes sense if those clients aren't Twitter clients. Twitter clients being used by people are similar. If instead that mechanism was used to bring in content from an entire other network, it could be beneficial to identify that. The blue iMessage bubbles only make sense because Apple chooses not to make an iMessage for Andriod or open the protocol. I hope iMessage goes the way of BBM. It's a $$ artifact, not technical.
pylua 4y ago
My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence than what was presented to him ?
- bmitc 4y ago
  Elon Musk has a no bs persona? Isn't his persona almost always bullshitting?
- ulfw 4y ago
  Then you have the wrong impression of a narcissist.
- acdha 4y ago
  Nothing in his public behavior suggests he takes criticism or being shown up well. Remember the cave rescue in Thailand? A normal person would have said “this kids are safe, great!” but his ego was irreparably injured by the knowledge that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room. My guess is that he’s going in determined to be the alpha engineer[1], assuming everyone who isn’t “his man” is stupid, possibly a saboteur, but is still going by what trivia comes up in response to questions. Something like “when you load the app we do a GraphQL query which makes hundreds of requests to our microservices” was understood as “the client makes all of those requests one by one” and since he doesn’t respect his employees he doesn’t pause to ask whether they really wouldn’t have noticed a blindingly obvious problem like that. 1. No, he definitely doesn’t want to know that’s not even a real thing with wolves.
- sidibe 4y ago
  "no bs persona"? I guess you mean his style is "no BS" rather than the substance of what he says. It's funny I see this applied to people who constantly BS as long as they are not nice to people or PC.
- steele 4y ago
  Nothing is his public interaction or interviews lends this impression to anyone that has been paying attention.
twelve40 4y ago
the UX is so messed up you have to put in significant effort to understand wtf any of this meant. Luckily, someone pieced together the actual conversation in 4 screenshots in the thread there. What a terrible app!
- egello 4y ago
  I might be wrong but I think his responses has been shadow banned, they do not appear in his profile or replies section yet they show up if you follow a direct link to them. Interesting. Anyone more knowledgable care to explain what's happening here?
fuckHNtho 4y ago
oh come on though, eric was playing for a severance package. If you're going to call out a sensitive ego in public, bring the facts up front.
- draw_down 4y ago
- bmitc 4y ago
  He and several others apparently did bring facts. Those tweets aren't available now it seems.
  - leereeves 4y ago
    Those tweets are still available: https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1591968343229366272 https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15919683432293662...
    - bmitc 4y ago
      As far as I can tell, they are only available if you have the direct link. They don’t show up in the thread or on his profile.
      - bananapub 4y ago
        is there any reasonable explanation for why that is the case?
        leereeves 4y ago
        I didn't have the direct link and found them by browsing. The facts are in replies, not standalone Tweets, so you have to know which Tweet to start with. From his profile, click on "I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong."
  - fuckHNtho 4y ago
Havoc 4y ago
Presumably intentional? Whether right or wrong on tech that was never a survivable pissing contest
- tracerbulletx 4y ago
  Well if you thought radical transparency and public debate were still on the table it would have been, but this is further proof it is not.
  - quantified 4y ago
    Free speech as in it will be published, and free speech as your CEO will let you correct him in public at any point, are quite different things. This tweeting got into the manager-employee dynamic and that's not normally a free-speech zone.
    - timeon 4y ago
      > not normally a free-speech zone How about 'cancel culture' zone?
randyrand 4y ago
I took this to mean he was already fired.
steele 4y ago
Musk is so incredibly fragile
sumo86 4y ago
It is extremely brutal
devwastaken 4y ago
Elon's "free speech" is just marketing. He himself is not qualified to moderate Twitter. They're offended easily and throw tantrums when they don't get their way. If this is how the boss acts the rest of the staff will be taking notes and doing it to you too.
- threatofrain 4y ago
  Tantrum is a kind way of framing Elon's social media style. Elon's tactical repertoire includes accusations of pedophilia, as he did to a rescue worker during a deadly rescue mission. Elon later double-downed on the claim by elaborating on why he thought the rescue worker was a pedophile.
  - bmitc 4y ago
    It's really a sad thing that Elon Musk won that lawsuit.
midislack 4y ago
- sreevisakh 4y ago
  These sorts of incidents would be far more common if bosses shit talked their employees in the public and tanked their brand image in the process in front of their users and future employees. Fortunately, almost everyone else is smart enough to know that it's bad.
  - midislack 4y ago
    Sir, he was shit talking the app (which everybody agrees blows ass) and the dev took to Twitter to whining instead of using the internal platform. Next time your boss admits your product is trash, try shit talking a rebuttal to him on Twitter, I dare you. Elon is his father.
    - d11z 4y ago
      Correction: Elon is his brand new (abusive) step-father.
      - midislack 4y ago
        I'm sure the job market yearns to hire yet another Android "engineer" and one who shit talks their boss on Twitter to boot. The bratty stepchild will be fine.
        rideontime 4y ago
        he was getting multiple job offers in that very thread, but go off
la64710 4y ago
While this all maybe entertaining to some people , it all just seems highly unprofessional. Right things can be done in a professional and respectful way , not make it all a big show unless they are desperate ways for the company to attract eyeballs and money.
- NickC25 4y ago
  A brand new (non-technical) CEO using misinformation to call out his dev team in public is also highly unprofessional, especially when they've tried to raise the same issue to management previously (apparently). I've seen the entire thread the fired gentleman in question wrote, and I don't see anything wrong with it, besides calling BS on the world's second biggest man-baby. >not make it all a big show unless they are desperate ways for the company to attract eyeballs and money. Are we talking about the fired gentleman or Elon Musk here?
  - mmcnl 4y ago
    Yes it is unprofessional but that CEO happens to own Twitter, so there's that. The developer is trying to armwrestle his boss in public. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
    - acdha 4y ago
      Based on his timeline I think he was ready to leave anyway. I’d bet that he’ll have a new job long before Musk can find someone equally skilled willing to put up with him - fanboys are unlikely to be as good at coding as they are kissing up.
      - mmcnl 4y ago
        If that's true, it's even more unprofessional. Agree to disagree is a basic professional skill. If you don't have that, maybe Elon was right to fire him?
        acdha 4y ago
tptacek 4y ago
The sad thing is that Musk and his disciples think this makes him look hardcore. Is Musk maybe the most easily-trolled person on Twitter? Parag Agarwal trolled him out of 44 billion dollars.
- bananapub 4y ago
  I'm actually surprised at how much support he's getting for his fuckwittery on this very site. I shouldn't be, but I am.
- tptacek 4y ago
  He's since deleted the tweet, making this whole thing a 10/10 troll that Musk never in a million years should have fallen for.
- rideontime 4y ago
  He "paid" $44 billion to become the permanent main character of twitter.
kuba-orlik 4y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20221115075527/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592186302379982849 http://web.archive.org/web/20221115075527/https://twitter.co...

74 points by atdrummond 4y ago

On a scale of 0 (hiring at Twitter is as easy as possible) to 100 (Twitter can never hire anyone again) how bad is it now that Musk fired an employee in front of millions of users, especially since the employee was calling out obvious bullshit?

AmericanOP 4y ago
For specifically calling him out on a probable lie
- mathlover2 4y ago
  That too. Corrected ;) (I'm multitasking and on phone; pardon my terseness)
dymk 4y ago
Awaiting the lawsuit against him because of the obvious constructive dismissal going on
- gruez 4y ago
  On what grounds? Most of US is at will employment, so the worst that he's subject to is something like california's WARN act which requires 60 days notice. However, AFAIK the employees are still receiving a paycheck, just that they have nothing to do and are locked out of the company's systems.
  - bamboozled 4y ago
    I just want to say that this attitude towards employment will likely be part of the eventual downfall of the USA. The reason ? It's too risky to tell your boss the truth so when things are going bad so it's easier just not to say anything, I noticed my American colleagues will often not say anything to "the grand leader", they will maybe even encourage stupidity. Where as when I worked in Europe, that doesn't happen. Not claiming those places are super powers, but I think this "shoot from the hip" American attitude towards staff will be it's undoing.
    - missingcolours 4y ago
      Nah. Everywhere I've ever worked, you can tell any boss things they don't want to hear. What you have to do is do it respectfully. I've told directors and VPs multiple levels up from me that I thought they were wrong about something in large meetings. I said it to their face and respectfully, and that was fine. As long as you understand your place and don't publicly trash your boss, there's normally no problem. The tweet in question here was... not that.
      - bmitc 4y ago
        Was his original tweet actually disrespectful? His CEO is openly ridiculing his own company's engineering teams, and he simply said that what Musk said was wrong. The second tweet had some more sass to it to match the tweet he was responding to, but it also wasn't all that bad. He points out the above in that Musk should be bringing these things up internally rather than publicly belittling his own employees with what appears to be incorrect information.
      - bamboozled 4y ago
        It's not about that, it's that you have to think and put a lot of mental energy into "being respectful" rather than just being straight forwards and direct. You have to wait for the right time etc. Giving feedback has higher risk and cost to it than it would otherwise be so why even do it? While I'm not claiming it's an immediate crisis, I think it is and will continue to become a net long term loss for corporate American culture. Musk is now teaching the world you can just fire people for saying anything you don't like without even a phone call, it will only make people more apprehensive to talk more freely.
        mathlover2 4y ago
        I think more than anything else Musk is teaching people to never apply to any company he owns under any circumstances. This isn't going to be treated as a role model for managers. It's going to be a model of exactly what not to do as a CEO, not just on HR issues, but everything else. I seriously don't see Twitter ever being able to hire a worker of any significant skill level ever again.
  - dymk 4y ago
    That’s not how constructive dismissal works. If your company decides they want to soft-layoff, they can’t just make it miserable and hope people quit. They’ll be sued, and courts will find the departures equivalent to a layoff if enough people leave.
atdrummond 4y ago
I suppose Elon misunderstood what “build in public” meant.
- bmitc 4y ago
  And free speech and everything else he touts. Yet again, it's an example of: don't tell Musk he is wrong, especially in public. Musk has also, presumably, removed the conversation shown here from Twitter: https://twitter.com/ichdertom/status/1592217628214722560/photo/1 https://twitter.com/ichdertom/status/1592217628214722560/pho...
  - kevinmchugh 4y ago
    What's the order of events here? Between "I can say this is wrong", this "what have you done?" exchange, and "he's fired"?
    - bmitc 4y ago
      I get the feeling it is in the order that you listed. The in between discussion doesn’t seem to show on Twitter unless one has the direct link.
- threatofrain 4y ago
  It's a shame because Elon was certainly enjoying the prerogative to shit on that team's work.
CoastalCoder 4y ago
TBH I was already pretty against working under Musk because of his previous speech and behavior. I think this was basically another instance of the same. It certainly cements my views.
hintymad 4y ago
Here might be another reason for not working for Musk: he asked an executive of his, Jerome Guillen, to "forfeit some unvested equity" because he thought that "some employees were making more from Tesla than he thought their contributions merited", per WSJ. I assume that Guillen was going to get the unvested equity if Musk didn't ask, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue at all.

gruez 4y ago

Who got fired here? I'm presuming it's @EricFrohnhoefer, but his profile says he's "Still @twitter".

atdrummond 4y ago
Eric has also acknowledged it.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1592287037805441024 https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15922870378054410...

superchroma 4y ago

When will elon get that this stuff isn't a cool "haha high five bro nice one" moment, and is instead just a sad display of managerial power, akin to sending a dish back to the kitchen in a restaurant.

quantified 4y ago
It probably is one to his peer group.
- sidibe 4y ago
  As long as he gets the wave of approvers oohing and aahing at each of his tweets, he doesn't care about anything or anyone else. Where have I seen this behavior before? Certain egomaniacs really get addicted to their Twitter fanboys.
  - superchroma 4y ago
    Let's not pretend there's that much overlap between trump fans and musk fans.
    - nikau 4y ago
      True, trump at least says his catch phrase 'you're fired' to their face
    - quantified 4y ago
      There may not be, but behaviors can be shared by groups that have very different tastes. Think religions, soccer, etc.

fragmede 4y ago

https://twitter.com/ericfrohnhoefer/status/1592287037805441024 https://twitter.com/ericfrohnhoefer/status/15922870378054410... is the tweet that makes it official

green_on_black 4y ago

Here we see the ruling class unleashing their serfs against the bourgeoisie, a tale as old as tales.

draw_down 4y ago

deleted 4y ago

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karmakaze 4y ago

The 'device tweet was written on' looks like cargo cult of blue bubbles vs green.

adamrezich 4y ago
it made more sense back when the API was more open and third-party clients were the norm
- karmakaze 4y ago
  It only makes sense if those clients aren't Twitter clients. Twitter clients being used by people are similar. If instead that mechanism was used to bring in content from an entire other network, it could be beneficial to identify that. The blue iMessage bubbles only make sense because Apple chooses not to make an iMessage for Andriod or open the protocol. I hope iMessage goes the way of BBM. It's a $$ artifact, not technical.

pylua 4y ago

My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence than what was presented to him ?

bmitc 4y ago
Elon Musk has a no bs persona? Isn't his persona almost always bullshitting?
ulfw 4y ago
Then you have the wrong impression of a narcissist.
acdha 4y ago
Nothing in his public behavior suggests he takes criticism or being shown up well. Remember the cave rescue in Thailand? A normal person would have said “this kids are safe, great!” but his ego was irreparably injured by the knowledge that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room. My guess is that he’s going in determined to be the alpha engineer[1], assuming everyone who isn’t “his man” is stupid, possibly a saboteur, but is still going by what trivia comes up in response to questions. Something like “when you load the app we do a GraphQL query which makes hundreds of requests to our microservices” was understood as “the client makes all of those requests one by one” and since he doesn’t respect his employees he doesn’t pause to ask whether they really wouldn’t have noticed a blindingly obvious problem like that. 1. No, he definitely doesn’t want to know that’s not even a real thing with wolves.
sidibe 4y ago
"no bs persona"? I guess you mean his style is "no BS" rather than the substance of what he says. It's funny I see this applied to people who constantly BS as long as they are not nice to people or PC.
steele 4y ago
Nothing is his public interaction or interviews lends this impression to anyone that has been paying attention.

twelve40 4y ago

the UX is so messed up you have to put in significant effort to understand wtf any of this meant. Luckily, someone pieced together the actual conversation in 4 screenshots in the thread there. What a terrible app!

egello 4y ago
I might be wrong but I think his responses has been shadow banned, they do not appear in his profile or replies section yet they show up if you follow a direct link to them. Interesting. Anyone more knowledgable care to explain what's happening here?

fuckHNtho 4y ago

oh come on though, eric was playing for a severance package. If you're going to call out a sensitive ego in public, bring the facts up front.

draw_down 4y ago
bmitc 4y ago
He and several others apparently did bring facts. Those tweets aren't available now it seems.
- leereeves 4y ago
  Those tweets are still available: https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1591968343229366272 https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15919683432293662...
  - bmitc 4y ago
    As far as I can tell, they are only available if you have the direct link. They don’t show up in the thread or on his profile.
    - bananapub 4y ago
      is there any reasonable explanation for why that is the case?
      - leereeves 4y ago
        I didn't have the direct link and found them by browsing. The facts are in replies, not standalone Tweets, so you have to know which Tweet to start with. From his profile, click on "I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong."
- fuckHNtho 4y ago

Havoc 4y ago

Presumably intentional? Whether right or wrong on tech that was never a survivable pissing contest

tracerbulletx 4y ago
Well if you thought radical transparency and public debate were still on the table it would have been, but this is further proof it is not.
- quantified 4y ago
  Free speech as in it will be published, and free speech as your CEO will let you correct him in public at any point, are quite different things. This tweeting got into the manager-employee dynamic and that's not normally a free-speech zone.
  - timeon 4y ago
    > not normally a free-speech zone How about 'cancel culture' zone?

randyrand 4y ago

I took this to mean he was already fired.

steele 4y ago

Musk is so incredibly fragile

sumo86 4y ago

It is extremely brutal

devwastaken 4y ago

Elon's "free speech" is just marketing. He himself is not qualified to moderate Twitter. They're offended easily and throw tantrums when they don't get their way. If this is how the boss acts the rest of the staff will be taking notes and doing it to you too.

threatofrain 4y ago
Tantrum is a kind way of framing Elon's social media style. Elon's tactical repertoire includes accusations of pedophilia, as he did to a rescue worker during a deadly rescue mission. Elon later double-downed on the claim by elaborating on why he thought the rescue worker was a pedophile.
- bmitc 4y ago
  It's really a sad thing that Elon Musk won that lawsuit.

midislack 4y ago

sreevisakh 4y ago
These sorts of incidents would be far more common if bosses shit talked their employees in the public and tanked their brand image in the process in front of their users and future employees. Fortunately, almost everyone else is smart enough to know that it's bad.
- midislack 4y ago
  Sir, he was shit talking the app (which everybody agrees blows ass) and the dev took to Twitter to whining instead of using the internal platform. Next time your boss admits your product is trash, try shit talking a rebuttal to him on Twitter, I dare you. Elon is his father.
  - d11z 4y ago
    Correction: Elon is his brand new (abusive) step-father.
    - midislack 4y ago
      I'm sure the job market yearns to hire yet another Android "engineer" and one who shit talks their boss on Twitter to boot. The bratty stepchild will be fine.
      - rideontime 4y ago
        he was getting multiple job offers in that very thread, but go off

la64710 4y ago

While this all maybe entertaining to some people , it all just seems highly unprofessional. Right things can be done in a professional and respectful way , not make it all a big show unless they are desperate ways for the company to attract eyeballs and money.

NickC25 4y ago
A brand new (non-technical) CEO using misinformation to call out his dev team in public is also highly unprofessional, especially when they've tried to raise the same issue to management previously (apparently). I've seen the entire thread the fired gentleman in question wrote, and I don't see anything wrong with it, besides calling BS on the world's second biggest man-baby. >not make it all a big show unless they are desperate ways for the company to attract eyeballs and money. Are we talking about the fired gentleman or Elon Musk here?
- mmcnl 4y ago
  Yes it is unprofessional but that CEO happens to own Twitter, so there's that. The developer is trying to armwrestle his boss in public. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
  - acdha 4y ago
    Based on his timeline I think he was ready to leave anyway. I’d bet that he’ll have a new job long before Musk can find someone equally skilled willing to put up with him - fanboys are unlikely to be as good at coding as they are kissing up.
    - mmcnl 4y ago
      If that's true, it's even more unprofessional. Agree to disagree is a basic professional skill. If you don't have that, maybe Elon was right to fire him?
      - acdha 4y ago

tptacek 4y ago

The sad thing is that Musk and his disciples think this makes him look hardcore. Is Musk maybe the most easily-trolled person on Twitter? Parag Agarwal trolled him out of 44 billion dollars.

bananapub 4y ago
I'm actually surprised at how much support he's getting for his fuckwittery on this very site. I shouldn't be, but I am.
tptacek 4y ago
He's since deleted the tweet, making this whole thing a 10/10 troll that Musk never in a million years should have fallen for.
rideontime 4y ago
He "paid" $44 billion to become the permanent main character of twitter.

kuba-orlik 4y ago

http://web.archive.org/web/20221115075527/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592186302379982849 http://web.archive.org/web/20221115075527/https://twitter.co...