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It definitely feels like internal sabotage at the moment...

yrgulation 4y ago
How is abandoning a mad boss sabotage? Those people are my new heroes. They clearly send a message to anyone in the industry trying to emulate musk, that if you mess around you find out.
- janalsncm 4y ago
  I read it as Musk sabotaging it himself.
  - Aaron2222 4y ago
    That would be how I meant it.
    - pfarrell 4y ago
      If that’s what you meant, then I think a clearer wording would have been “self-sabotage”. The wording “internal sabotage” implies a coordinated effort against Musk by people inside Twitter.
vkou 4y ago
By whom, Musk? Because while particular actions he's taken in the past few weeks may be justifiable in certain contexts, all of them taken together can only be interpreted as an attempt to set 44 billion dollars on fire.
- Aaron2222 4y ago
  Yeah, I meant internal sabotage by Musk.
rsynnott 4y ago
Weird new CEO fires half the company, then demands a _loyalty pledge_, like a common Henry VIII. Sensibly, everyone quits. I mean, the only saboteur there is the leadership.
- ShredKazoo 4y ago
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  - dfghbbjiiugb 4y ago
    Why would you assume it's about politics instead of the whole "shitty asshole boss who has open contempt for you and your coworkers, who is promising to massively overwork you, who might fire you any moment and has already fired half your peers"? I think you'd have to be completely insane to want to work there right now.
    - ilyt 4y ago
      Well, there was twitter drama that preceded elon's buying twitter, and there was clearly a lot of employees pushing their politics using it. Hell, we got recent thread about how Japanese Twitter changed the moment the "moderation" got kicked out. But yeah, asshole boss gonna be #1 cause here with literally anything else being barely related.
  - smcl 4y ago
    You're putting a lot of stock into this idea that the root cause is some left-leaning employees. I don't buy it whatsoever. But even if we assumed it true (it's not), if you bought a company where the employees hate[0] you and you immediately start antagonising them doesn't that indicate that you were the problem? [0] - I don't believe this is true either. As I said in another comment, not everyone likes their boss. But many people at Twitter liked their jobs and their colleagues, and probably would've tolerated some cringe-y Musk tweets or a change in direction. But my sense is that when Musk started firing people (either en-masse or individually, like the guy patiently explaining the "1000 RPC calls" thing) that's when the mood shifted to "fuck this guy, and fuck this company"
Aaron2222 4y ago
It appears I wasn't paritually clear. I meant Elon Musk is the one commiting internal sabotage.
- thereare5lights 4y ago
  So is this ignorance or malice?

How is abandoning a mad boss sabotage? Those people are my new heroes. They clearly send a message to anyone in the industry trying to emulate musk, that if you mess around you find out.

janalsncm 4y ago
I read it as Musk sabotaging it himself.
- Aaron2222 4y ago
  That would be how I meant it.
  - pfarrell 4y ago
    If that’s what you meant, then I think a clearer wording would have been “self-sabotage”. The wording “internal sabotage” implies a coordinated effort against Musk by people inside Twitter.

vkou 4y ago

By whom, Musk? Because while particular actions he's taken in the past few weeks may be justifiable in certain contexts, all of them taken together can only be interpreted as an attempt to set 44 billion dollars on fire.

Aaron2222 4y ago
Yeah, I meant internal sabotage by Musk.

rsynnott 4y ago

Weird new CEO fires half the company, then demands a _loyalty pledge_, like a common Henry VIII. Sensibly, everyone quits. I mean, the only saboteur there is the leadership.

ShredKazoo 4y ago
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- dfghbbjiiugb 4y ago
  Why would you assume it's about politics instead of the whole "shitty asshole boss who has open contempt for you and your coworkers, who is promising to massively overwork you, who might fire you any moment and has already fired half your peers"? I think you'd have to be completely insane to want to work there right now.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    Well, there was twitter drama that preceded elon's buying twitter, and there was clearly a lot of employees pushing their politics using it. Hell, we got recent thread about how Japanese Twitter changed the moment the "moderation" got kicked out. But yeah, asshole boss gonna be #1 cause here with literally anything else being barely related.
- smcl 4y ago
  You're putting a lot of stock into this idea that the root cause is some left-leaning employees. I don't buy it whatsoever. But even if we assumed it true (it's not), if you bought a company where the employees hate[0] you and you immediately start antagonising them doesn't that indicate that you were the problem? [0] - I don't believe this is true either. As I said in another comment, not everyone likes their boss. But many people at Twitter liked their jobs and their colleagues, and probably would've tolerated some cringe-y Musk tweets or a change in direction. But my sense is that when Musk started firing people (either en-masse or individually, like the guy patiently explaining the "1000 RPC calls" thing) that's when the mood shifted to "fuck this guy, and fuck this company"

Aaron2222 4y ago

It appears I wasn't paritually clear. I meant Elon Musk is the one commiting internal sabotage.

thereare5lights 4y ago
So is this ignorance or malice?