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Musk bought Twitter and fired 50% od the staff without Twitter crashing, which exposed how overstaffed and overpayed thise guys were

petee 4y ago
Or just how well they designed it
- mikeyouse 4y ago
  Imagine thinking that firing 50% of the staff that built an enormously complicated piece of software, and having the service stay up and running means that the people who built it were overpaid or overstaffed.
  - BaseballPhysics 4y ago
    "We don't need firefighters. No one has died in a fire in years!"
    - drstewart 4y ago
      "We don't need the TSA. No one has died in a hijacking in years!"
  - drstewart 4y ago
    And if it did fall over you'd be saying the same exact thing. So by your own logic, it's impossible for a company to be overpaid or overstaffed.
    - mikeyouse 4y ago
      It’s almost like it’s not possible to judge the necessity or required quantity of software engineers from outside the company!
sgjohnson 4y ago
He could have fired 100% and Twitter wouldn’t crash.
BaseballPhysics 4y ago
> which exposed how overstaffed and overpayed thise guys were Systems don't fail overnight, and Twitter has definitely been exhibiting odd behaviors lately. It's just a bit early for a victory lap.
- throwaway894345 4y ago
  Twitter hasn’t been exhibiting “odd behavior” for years. Systems don’t fail overnights, but I would expect some signal to emerge from the noise by now.
dinkumthinkum 4y ago
I don’t know that they were overpaid. I also don’t know that all the people fired had to deal with day-to-day uptime operations. If they did, then they probably were over-staffed but probably they were not and I think we all know that. Now, it seeend quite likely they were over staffed to an extent but I don’t know about this idea that “Twitter is still up so those people were useless.” Also, Musk fired some people for saying stupid things about their boss on his platform, that is just fair play. I don’t see why people like NYT are up in arms about it (well, I do). However, read Musk’s Tweets from November. He was behaving like a little child trolling on the Internet.
croes 4y ago
Too soon to say that. Even if they are understaffed now it wouldn't immediately collapse.
- 93po 4y ago
  Performance has literally improved since the layoffs.
watwut 4y ago
He is selling waaay less ads and way cheaper then used to be. And while it has many reasons, him firing people who were actually selling those ads is one of them.

petee 4y ago

Or just how well they designed it

mikeyouse 4y ago
Imagine thinking that firing 50% of the staff that built an enormously complicated piece of software, and having the service stay up and running means that the people who built it were overpaid or overstaffed.
- BaseballPhysics 4y ago
  "We don't need firefighters. No one has died in a fire in years!"
  - drstewart 4y ago
    "We don't need the TSA. No one has died in a hijacking in years!"
- drstewart 4y ago
  And if it did fall over you'd be saying the same exact thing. So by your own logic, it's impossible for a company to be overpaid or overstaffed.
  - mikeyouse 4y ago
    It’s almost like it’s not possible to judge the necessity or required quantity of software engineers from outside the company!

sgjohnson 4y ago

He could have fired 100% and Twitter wouldn’t crash.

BaseballPhysics 4y ago

> which exposed how overstaffed and overpayed thise guys were Systems don't fail overnight, and Twitter has definitely been exhibiting odd behaviors lately. It's just a bit early for a victory lap.

throwaway894345 4y ago
Twitter hasn’t been exhibiting “odd behavior” for years. Systems don’t fail overnights, but I would expect some signal to emerge from the noise by now.

dinkumthinkum 4y ago

I don’t know that they were overpaid. I also don’t know that all the people fired had to deal with day-to-day uptime operations. If they did, then they probably were over-staffed but probably they were not and I think we all know that. Now, it seeend quite likely they were over staffed to an extent but I don’t know about this idea that “Twitter is still up so those people were useless.” Also, Musk fired some people for saying stupid things about their boss on his platform, that is just fair play. I don’t see why people like NYT are up in arms about it (well, I do). However, read Musk’s Tweets from November. He was behaving like a little child trolling on the Internet.

croes 4y ago

Too soon to say that. Even if they are understaffed now it wouldn't immediately collapse.

93po 4y ago
Performance has literally improved since the layoffs.

watwut 4y ago

He is selling waaay less ads and way cheaper then used to be. And while it has many reasons, him firing people who were actually selling those ads is one of them.