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> He just wants people to do a good job. Is that too much to ask? No, but that's not what he has asked for. What he asked for is this: ----- From: Elon Musk

by prirun 4y ago

> He just wants people to do a good job. Is that too much to ask? No, but that's not what he has asked for. What he asked for is this: ----- From: Elon Musk To: Team [at Twitter] Subj. A Fork in the Road Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed] Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade. Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven. Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so l think this makes sense. If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below: [Link removed] Anyone who has not done so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance. ----- Doing a good job is a very different request from "extremely hardcore", "long hours at high intensity", and "only exceptional performance counts". It's especially onerous to ask people to commit to this without specific details (weekends too? I assume yes), no mention of pay raises for working more hours, no mention of equity rewards (in fact, they were getting equity and now aren't, which is effectively a pay cut), no severance agreement to review before deciding, and 1 day to decide. Brutal fits IMO.

kamaal 4y ago
In all honesty, this doesn't look all that bad to me. And it feels what a new boss would say to rally people around his cause. Every company/boss has this sort of management speak 101 sort of speeches they give. I think Amazon also has some principle of management which they told me during the interview which was basically the corporate speak 101 sort of material. In my own experience I've heard quite a bit of these boss speeches. These are not the things you quit for. You just neglect it and do you job. There is no management police who walks around the cubicle like a beat cop to enforce this.

by prirun 4y ago

kamaal 4y ago

In all honesty, this doesn't look all that bad to me. And it feels what a new boss would say to rally people around his cause. Every company/boss has this sort of management speak 101 sort of speeches they give. I think Amazon also has some principle of management which they told me during the interview which was basically the corporate speak 101 sort of material. In my own experience I've heard quite a bit of these boss speeches. These are not the things you quit for. You just neglect it and do you job. There is no management police who walks around the cubicle like a beat cop to enforce this.