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New layoffs at Twitter hit trust and safety workers
- codeTired 3y agoSucks to be an X-worker. I’m sorry!
- thumbsup-_- 3y agoHe wants to make everyone there an X-worker
- KBme 3y ago[flagged]
- commandlinefan 3y agoI wasn't sure, but I couldn't imagine anywhere else Twitter might have "safety" concerns other than their censorship board.
- KBme 3y ago[flagged]
- singleshot_ 3y agoThe good reason seems to be the same reason any private company makes editorial decisions to shape its coherent speech product: because they are seeking an audience that doesn’t want to hear constant jibber jabber about “her emails” or “his laptop.” This is their right under our property law regime, not to mention our right as consumers (i.e., under the law there is no way for you to force me listen to you).
- KBme 3y agoMy post was not long but you managed to completely ignore half of it. This was not Twitter's decision but rather the three letter agencies', which is totally illegal.
- KBme 3y ago[flagged]
- singleshot_ 3y agoCorrect, I was only replying to "censored the Biden laptop with no good reason[.]" The rest of your post was not worth considering. I appreciate the "we can do what we want with our property" trend in big tech now because I adore the idea of private property rights, which include the right to exclude. One example of why the right to exclude is so excellent is this thread, where the community has combined to inform you that your opinions and attitudes are not useful or within the spirit of our rules. Under your proposal, we would have to listen to you go on forever about how you feel the law should work. I am thankful internet platforms are able to institute such measures in order to control the insane nonsense we have to wade through.
- KBme 3y agoNope. The no good reason was the government intervention. You can't just ignore one half of a sentence because you identify as not wanting to acknowlege it.
- singleshot_ 3y ago"you identify as"
- KBme 3y agoMy proposal being that the government is not allowed to censor? It's not a proposal, it's the first ammendment
- KBme 3y ago
- sneeze-slayer 3y agoSemi-related, but it's hard to imagine applying for new jobs at companies that have, in the recent past, laid workers off. An Amazon recruiter reached out to me recently, and it's hard to imagine that I would leave my stable job for a company that months ago was laying off employees. Who would want to work at Twitter if half of your colleagues (or more) are suddenly gone!
- penjelly 3y agoi agree layoffs make one tentative, but those layoffs may be in a department you arent applying to, so worth pursuing the opportunity anyway imo
- tail_exchange 3y agoI remember applying for a job at Twitter in 2021 (or was it 2020?). I did really well on the interviews, except for one due to a dumb mistake. I was rejected, and I was really bummed out because of it. It felt like a great opportunity had just slipped through my fingers. Fast-forward a couple months, I got a better offer from a better company, and I can't help but think that I dodged a huge bullet there. I can't imagine being stuck at Xitter during these times when the job market is so bad. My sympathies to the people who are working there now.
- itsoktocry 3y ago>these times when the job market is so bad. Friend, the job market is not remotely close to "bad". It's "normal" at worst.
- doubleg72 3y agoI would even say normal is a stretch, even on average. At least in my area of expertise, a whole host of new jobs are available now than they were five years ago. There are so many more remote/hybrid jobs that were around before, healthcare is still seeing shortages, manufacturing/fabrication jobs are plentiful like I can’t remember, and the effects of “college bad, trade schools good” have left us with less engineers than can be utilized, across man disciplines, as college enrollments continue to fall. This is just anecdotal data, from m monitoring of various job sites regularly over the years. Of course, it could be that Indeed, Linkedin, etc have gotten more popular over the years, but I see increases everywhere. The local hospitals were laying people off in 2018-19 for example, while now they are seeking doctors, nurses, EVS, Bio-Med, and many other positions.
- tail_exchange 3y agoReally? I see so many posts about the tech job market being terrible and people not getting any offers. Have you been job hunting recently?