Listen here, computer. I am the one in charge.
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I'm thinking about planning a post-Thanksgiving vacation as a palate cleanser after all this Elon Musk drama. Barcelona maybe? Send me your ideas.
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So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out?
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/quitquitquit
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Did the poor IT person responsible for employee offboarding also resign? We're 5 hours past the ultimatum deadline and I'm still able to read company Slack messages.
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I resigned today from my job at Twitter. I have nothing but love and admiration for the incredibly kind and talented people I have worked with over these past 4 years. #LoveWhereYouWorked 💙
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Do you think Calacanis still wants to be CEO? 😂
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i don’t get why people don’t want to work hard and be hardcore in my shirtwaist factory where we lock the doors
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some people on this website have never worked in a truly dysfunctional org and it shows
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I also dabble in performance engineering from time to time
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I optimized The Bird App by having 3 gin tonics and it’s fast now
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I don't know what you're talking about 🙃
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Maniacal urgency sounds like it would result in a lot of wasted energy because you don't think things through properly.
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I'm told it's all part of the plan
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still hilarious to me that twitter is trading hundreds of millions in ad revenue for ones of millions of subscription revenue
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Wild to see all the folks on this website explaining that getting to publicly talk shit about people is the natural right of CEOs "because that's how hierarchy works"
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The number of tweeps changing their account to private today says a lot
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Maniacal urgency, let’s goooo
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The lack of respect is mutual
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This is a lie. I ran this program up until a week ago when I resigned because I didn’t want to work for For breakfast & lunch we spent $20-$25 a day per person. This enabled employees to work thru lunchtime & mtgs. Attendance was anything from 20-50% in the offices.
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Sounds like a future collab with
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All the Twitter’s data centers and servers should’ve been one single giant supercomputer located inside the Earth’s inner core, run on artisanal Assembly code instead of Scala, to serve the humanity globally
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Somewhere deep down in the untouched depths of the Pacific ocean, the Fail Whale stirs from a long slumber.
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Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.
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Me, 3000 years from now
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A minor tidbit on the sleepwhereyouwork viral worker - she came to twitter through an acquihire in 2020, and likely has an outsized financial incentive (at least 7 figures, possibly 8) to make it until 2024.
So once again this hustle bullshit is extractive.
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Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others
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So basically we decimated whatever remains of Twitter's $5B advertising business so we can collect a few million in subscriber fees. Bravo.
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BREAKING: Internal logs show that more than 140,000 accounts have signed up for the new $8 a month Twitter Blue.
And that’s just iOS users. In America. Over 2 days
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What is the endgame here? After Twitter laid off 70-80% in many critical areas last week, everyone left is planning their exit. The number of mission-critical “lazy, unmotivated�? people walking out the door will continue to rise. And, no, there will not be a knowledge transition. twitter.com/junosz/status/
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Hell of a time to be alive if you’re a fan of management anti-patterns.
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Do you suppose Elon still has that sink somewhere at Twitter HQ?
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One positive: It’s going to be so much easier to explain what product management is and why you need it after this week
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It's so weird how all the people in my mentions hating on twitter employees have approximately 0 followers 🙃
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I'm thinkin Christian Bale as Jack Dorsey
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Have you ever heard of a tech company where employees primarily communicate with each other via and other non-work communication tools? That's my lived experience at Twitter right now.
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The way things are going, I’m not sure Twitter will be retaining anyone for long
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Twitter is finding cheaper ways (toxic environment, chaos, cutting bonds, changing company culture) to reduce costs without paying severance while retaining loyalists who accept any work conditions.
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