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Well Elon has a lot of haters, especially among liberal people, so it seems pretty reasonable to deduce that many Twitter employees were Elon haters? And yeah,

Well Elon has a lot of haters, especially among liberal people, so it seems pretty reasonable to deduce that many Twitter employees were Elon haters? And yeah, a company full of employees who hate the CEO isn't gonna function great. So in that sense, it's a problem to solve independent of the damn snowflake liberals angle. Is there a specific "enriching my media diet" thing I'm missing here? Like I feel like that paragraph ^ is just common sense.

smcl 4y ago
I don't think that is a problem you need to solve at all. Who cares if your employees don't like you? There are thousands of CEOs worldwide and likely most of their employees resent, distrust, dislike or even hate them - but they need to work with each other and usually manage (if begrudgingly) to do so. I didn't say you should enrich your media diet - I don't really care what you watch or read.
- ShredKazoo 4y ago
  Sure, maybe a better way to put it would be: at high-functioning companies, workers believe in the CEO. So if you want to create a high-functioning company, and lots of workers are never gonna believe in the CEO because they think he's a "psychopath" (term used elsewhere in this thread for Elon because he wants employees to work 40 hours in the office!), then it makes sense to encourage those workers to leave on some kind of timetable, same way Zappos offers a nice severance so they're left with only the most enthusiastic employees
  - smcl 4y ago
    He fired ~3700 after a couple of days - that’s not encouraging anyone to leave on some kind of timetable, that’s a mass layoff. It certainly doesn’t make him a psychopath, but it does make him a boss that I would not want to work for - so I completely understand the exodus that this (and a few of the other questionable moves) appears to have started
piva00 4y ago
I don't know, it just feels that every time someone uses "liberuls" and "far left" they are repeating the mantra of the alt-right. It was kinda uncalled for given that these terms have wildly different meanings depending on who's saying them, usually the alt-right co-opted them to be "anything that disagree with us". It's just exhausting, you could have brought up the same issue without having to resort to divisive discourse :) And every place I've worked at there were people who hated the CEO, it's just natural, it's a position of power and people don't have to like the CEO to work for a company, even less if it's a large one.

smcl 4y ago

I don't think that is a problem you need to solve at all. Who cares if your employees don't like you? There are thousands of CEOs worldwide and likely most of their employees resent, distrust, dislike or even hate them - but they need to work with each other and usually manage (if begrudgingly) to do so. I didn't say you should enrich your media diet - I don't really care what you watch or read.

ShredKazoo 4y ago
Sure, maybe a better way to put it would be: at high-functioning companies, workers believe in the CEO. So if you want to create a high-functioning company, and lots of workers are never gonna believe in the CEO because they think he's a "psychopath" (term used elsewhere in this thread for Elon because he wants employees to work 40 hours in the office!), then it makes sense to encourage those workers to leave on some kind of timetable, same way Zappos offers a nice severance so they're left with only the most enthusiastic employees
- smcl 4y ago
  He fired ~3700 after a couple of days - that’s not encouraging anyone to leave on some kind of timetable, that’s a mass layoff. It certainly doesn’t make him a psychopath, but it does make him a boss that I would not want to work for - so I completely understand the exodus that this (and a few of the other questionable moves) appears to have started

piva00 4y ago

I don't know, it just feels that every time someone uses "liberuls" and "far left" they are repeating the mantra of the alt-right. It was kinda uncalled for given that these terms have wildly different meanings depending on who's saying them, usually the alt-right co-opted them to be "anything that disagree with us". It's just exhausting, you could have brought up the same issue without having to resort to divisive discourse :) And every place I've worked at there were people who hated the CEO, it's just natural, it's a position of power and people don't have to like the CEO to work for a company, even less if it's a large one.