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4. The institutional knowledge is not gone, in the event of any massive catastrophe employees who previously worked at Twitter can return as “consultants” and c

by xwdv 4y ago

4. The institutional knowledge is not gone, in the event of any massive catastrophe employees who previously worked at Twitter can return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. It’s pay as you go.

the_snooze 4y ago
>return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. Elon Musk has a rock-solid reputation of paying his bills, after all.
SamBam 4y ago
Massive catastrophes are averted by people with institutional knowledge correctly adding to the hardware/codebase over time, with new features that integrate well with old one, knowing how to scale hardware correctly, patches being applied, etc. Not by bringing people in during a fire and pointing into the smoke and saying "fix that!"
swatcoder 4y ago
> return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. I'm sure there are some people who would do that, but those opportunities become very expensive-to-impossible when you burn bridges the way certain new management has. People hold personal value on things like respect and principle that can make them behave "irrationally" in naive analyses like this.
tablespoon 4y ago
> 4. The institutional knowledge is not gone, in the event of any massive catastrophe employees who previously worked at Twitter can return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. It’s pay as you go. What you're describing is the loss of institutional knowledge with a fantasy tacked on the side. 1) There's no reason to expect those employees would come back, even at rates far higher than Musk is likely willing to pay. Everything indicates Musk has destroyed a lot of goodwill with his shambolic layoffs, and getting people to come back is one of the situations where you need goodwill. You're basically talking about gig-work on a shitty boss's terms. Only desperate people would play that game, and the people Musk would need probably aren't the desperate ones. 2) Any employees that come back are going to be rusty and lack the institutional of what happened after they left, so their effectiveness at immediate fire-fighting will be greatly reduced. 3) If there's a "massive catastrophe" at Twitter, do you think they even know who to call back? I wouldn't be surprised if they've lost a lot of the institutional knowledge about who knew what, at this point.
rsynnott 4y ago
Most of those people will presumably have other jobs now, which would tend to preclude this. You do _not_ want to be in the position of begging employees you fired to come back as consultants; it's not at all as easy as you seem to think.

by xwdv 4y ago

the_snooze 4y ago

>return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. Elon Musk has a rock-solid reputation of paying his bills, after all.

SamBam 4y ago

Massive catastrophes are averted by people with institutional knowledge correctly adding to the hardware/codebase over time, with new features that integrate well with old one, knowing how to scale hardware correctly, patches being applied, etc. Not by bringing people in during a fire and pointing into the smoke and saying "fix that!"

swatcoder 4y ago

> return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. I'm sure there are some people who would do that, but those opportunities become very expensive-to-impossible when you burn bridges the way certain new management has. People hold personal value on things like respect and principle that can make them behave "irrationally" in naive analyses like this.

tablespoon 4y ago

> 4. The institutional knowledge is not gone, in the event of any massive catastrophe employees who previously worked at Twitter can return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. It’s pay as you go. What you're describing is the loss of institutional knowledge with a fantasy tacked on the side. 1) There's no reason to expect those employees would come back, even at rates far higher than Musk is likely willing to pay. Everything indicates Musk has destroyed a lot of goodwill with his shambolic layoffs, and getting people to come back is one of the situations where you need goodwill. You're basically talking about gig-work on a shitty boss's terms. Only desperate people would play that game, and the people Musk would need probably aren't the desperate ones. 2) Any employees that come back are going to be rusty and lack the institutional of what happened after they left, so their effectiveness at immediate fire-fighting will be greatly reduced. 3) If there's a "massive catastrophe" at Twitter, do you think they even know who to call back? I wouldn't be surprised if they've lost a lot of the institutional knowledge about who knew what, at this point.

rsynnott 4y ago

Most of those people will presumably have other jobs now, which would tend to preclude this. You do _not_ want to be in the position of begging employees you fired to come back as consultants; it's not at all as easy as you seem to think.