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Ah, right. Just fire anyone who doesn't have anything to do for 5 minutes and then rehire them a week later when the new piece of work comes in. Needless to sa

Ah, right. Just fire anyone who doesn't have anything to do for 5 minutes and then rehire them a week later when the new piece of work comes in. Needless to say, employees will do one of two things. Even very mediocre employees will demand high-end consultancy fees, and "rock-stars" or whatever you want to call them will demand factors of that, or they'll just avoid you like the plague. But frankly, after a relatively short period of time even the high pay won't justify coming back anymore. And then the time will come to hire and your competitor will be able to hire great people (with intimate knowledge of your company's inner workings), and you won't be able to hire anyone for double the pay. And that's IF you can avoid your company suffering regular sabotage when firing people. People do stupid things when they get fired. Seriously. It's scary.

ElevenLathe 4y ago
This is all true, and the whole situation will probably end mostly poorly for most Twitter stakeholders. I'm not one to defend Musk's management practices, but I think the main idea motivating this purge (which may or may not be a correct idea) is that Twitter, specifically, does not need "rockstar" engineers anymore at all. Sure, he'll take them if they kiss the ring and work for peanuts, but he wants people who follow orders and don't talk back. He's not unique here: all management everywhere always wants this wants this but, in some endeavors you have to tolerate people who aren't this way, either because you don't know the right orders to give, or just because they're the only talent that can get done what you need to get done. Twitter's main corporate priority at this point is keeping the lights on as cheaply as possible, since they have a huge nut of debt they they can't afford to service, and on top of it all revenue is down. Again, I'm not saying this situation is desirable for Twitter employees, users, management, advertisers, or ownership (or even Musk himself), but this is the situation.
- candiodari 4y ago
  ... and now he has personally hired George Hotz ... https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1595270867402956801 https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159527086740295680... So clearly mr. Musk thinks twitter needs rockstar engineers. I also find it extremely unlikely he paid anything less than a full year's wage for these 12 weeks.

ElevenLathe 4y ago

This is all true, and the whole situation will probably end mostly poorly for most Twitter stakeholders. I'm not one to defend Musk's management practices, but I think the main idea motivating this purge (which may or may not be a correct idea) is that Twitter, specifically, does not need "rockstar" engineers anymore at all. Sure, he'll take them if they kiss the ring and work for peanuts, but he wants people who follow orders and don't talk back. He's not unique here: all management everywhere always wants this wants this but, in some endeavors you have to tolerate people who aren't this way, either because you don't know the right orders to give, or just because they're the only talent that can get done what you need to get done. Twitter's main corporate priority at this point is keeping the lights on as cheaply as possible, since they have a huge nut of debt they they can't afford to service, and on top of it all revenue is down. Again, I'm not saying this situation is desirable for Twitter employees, users, management, advertisers, or ownership (or even Musk himself), but this is the situation.

candiodari 4y ago
... and now he has personally hired George Hotz ... https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1595270867402956801 https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159527086740295680... So clearly mr. Musk thinks twitter needs rockstar engineers. I also find it extremely unlikely he paid anything less than a full year's wage for these 12 weeks.