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There were a lot of videos in this style from the twitter people. Turns out they run fine on 20 % remaining workforce.

by dna_polymerase 3y ago

saagarjha 3y ago
Surely this is because Elon is there picking up the slack for the missing 80%.
- amoss 3y ago
  Underrated.
- hnaccount_rng 3y ago
  Or, you know, the people dealing with the advertisers ("partners") are gone and no money is coming in. But sure the servers are still running ;)
  - arein2 3y ago
    no idea why you need a dedicated person for dealing with the advertisers. it seemed to be just pressure from adl to scare the advertisers away, or otherwise adl will generate controversy a very slimy and backwards model
    - viraptor 3y ago
      Without internal Twitter context, but having seen companies with marketing teams... there's a lot of people involved in doing close work with partners, whether advertisement ones or others. On the tech side it's kind of like AWS support - sure, everyone had access to the support portal, but once you start spending $$$, you'll get dedicated people sitting in your company's slack channel, providing support, advice and planning if you need it. (Sure, it doesn't always work great, but the idea holds) I'm sure that whoever was the big ad spender with Twitter has a dedicated contact reachable more directly. (And possibly negotiating better deals than advertised to everyone)
    - red-iron-pine 3y ago
      > a very slimy and backwards model perhaps it is, but that's the business a lot of big tech is in. ads drive everything. google is an advertising company with a lot of data mining on the front-end. if your ad game and monitization isn't tight then you don't have a company, you have a public service, and one that will gas out pretty quickly.
    - tiznow 3y ago
      because advertising and marketing are still very much industries where your "face card" matters and where companies will spend millions of dollars elsewhere if Chet from Advertising gets laid off.
- raverbashing 3y ago
  "the missing 80%" you mean the ones that would go from the salad bar to the yoga class and then go into a DEI meeting and talking about how we must change "the color of our vibes"? Yeah I think Elon is almost picking up that slack. But I doubt anyone could find him at an yoga class
  - saagarjha 3y ago
    You’ve made up a guy and are mad about it but go off
    - ido 3y ago
      There was probably a lot of slack at twitter, but as an outsider it's incredibly hard to correctly identify who is the slack and who is doing real work (and a lot of people are somewhat in-between) in such a short amount of time. Musk took a massive risk and I'm sure a lot of the collateral damage were people doing genuine work. Keep in mind a lot of the slacker are really good at pretending to do real work and they've had a long time to hone their skills.
      - mcny 3y ago
        That's any company. Twitter is not special. The gp I think is talking about rage bait videos on social media where people used to post how work was so easy at xyz company. We should know better than rely on rage bait for information. Ask your friends who worked there if they knew anyone slacking off.
        ido 3y ago
        with that i agree, the video was just a funny video and not meant to be taken as a documentary.
offices 3y ago
Half the revenue and being fined for failing to prevent child sexual abuse is fine?
doc_gunthrop 3y ago
Pareto principle in full effect
VirusNewbie 3y ago
I mean, they're making a lot less money, so I dunno. It's easy to run a company with a skeleton crew if you run it at a loss. it's the cost efficiency that makes it harder.

There were a lot of videos in this style from the twitter people. Turns out they run fine on 20 % remaining workforce.

saagarjha 3y ago

Surely this is because Elon is there picking up the slack for the missing 80%.

amoss 3y ago
Underrated.
hnaccount_rng 3y ago
Or, you know, the people dealing with the advertisers ("partners") are gone and no money is coming in. But sure the servers are still running ;)
- arein2 3y ago
  no idea why you need a dedicated person for dealing with the advertisers. it seemed to be just pressure from adl to scare the advertisers away, or otherwise adl will generate controversy a very slimy and backwards model
  - viraptor 3y ago
    Without internal Twitter context, but having seen companies with marketing teams... there's a lot of people involved in doing close work with partners, whether advertisement ones or others. On the tech side it's kind of like AWS support - sure, everyone had access to the support portal, but once you start spending $$$, you'll get dedicated people sitting in your company's slack channel, providing support, advice and planning if you need it. (Sure, it doesn't always work great, but the idea holds) I'm sure that whoever was the big ad spender with Twitter has a dedicated contact reachable more directly. (And possibly negotiating better deals than advertised to everyone)
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    > a very slimy and backwards model perhaps it is, but that's the business a lot of big tech is in. ads drive everything. google is an advertising company with a lot of data mining on the front-end. if your ad game and monitization isn't tight then you don't have a company, you have a public service, and one that will gas out pretty quickly.
  - tiznow 3y ago
    because advertising and marketing are still very much industries where your "face card" matters and where companies will spend millions of dollars elsewhere if Chet from Advertising gets laid off.
raverbashing 3y ago
"the missing 80%" you mean the ones that would go from the salad bar to the yoga class and then go into a DEI meeting and talking about how we must change "the color of our vibes"? Yeah I think Elon is almost picking up that slack. But I doubt anyone could find him at an yoga class
- saagarjha 3y ago
  You’ve made up a guy and are mad about it but go off
  - ido 3y ago
    There was probably a lot of slack at twitter, but as an outsider it's incredibly hard to correctly identify who is the slack and who is doing real work (and a lot of people are somewhat in-between) in such a short amount of time. Musk took a massive risk and I'm sure a lot of the collateral damage were people doing genuine work. Keep in mind a lot of the slacker are really good at pretending to do real work and they've had a long time to hone their skills.
    - mcny 3y ago
      That's any company. Twitter is not special. The gp I think is talking about rage bait videos on social media where people used to post how work was so easy at xyz company. We should know better than rely on rage bait for information. Ask your friends who worked there if they knew anyone slacking off.
      - ido 3y ago
        with that i agree, the video was just a funny video and not meant to be taken as a documentary.

offices 3y ago

Half the revenue and being fined for failing to prevent child sexual abuse is fine?

doc_gunthrop 3y ago

Pareto principle in full effect

VirusNewbie 3y ago

I mean, they're making a lot less money, so I dunno. It's easy to run a company with a skeleton crew if you run it at a loss. it's the cost efficiency that makes it harder.