Twitter lays off 5K contractors in surprise 2nd wave of cuts, more mods lost
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I'll bet you a shiny internet nickel that Elon Musk didn't know Twitter employed >5000 contract workers until roughly an hour before Twitter laid off 5000 contract workers.
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I'm sure all the workers affected by Musk the clown are all laughing...
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Typical bully behavior. He got his peepee hurt when OldTwitter forced him to complete his contract so he feels the need to renew his ego by hurting other people.
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adrianovaroli
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I really hope Swisher doesn’t learn the hard way why content moderation is not “bloat”.
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Don’t get me wrong, it’s usually a good idea to once in a while trim a company of unnecessary jobs. But does Musk seriously think he can cutback his way to a 1+ billion dollar profit?
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This reminds me of the Trump presidency - when you'd wake up each morning wondering which dumpster fire he'd start today.
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The more people we have to pay the less cash available to transfer out before the bankruptcy.
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The Musk has also been publicly feuding with one of Twitter's Android engineers (who is now being harassed by the Musk's weird cult.) It's a really great look.
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Funny, I rather hope he does. Seems like a lot of people need a reminder of how bad it can get.
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It's scattered around a bit, but is not a bad place to start.
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In any case, the idea that a large organization can remain fully functional through massive, unplanned, uncoordinated layoffs is asinine. I wouldn't trust Elon Musk to manage a gas station.
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And we have laid off the department that measures morale improvement.
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/musk_twitter_rpc_spat/ also goes over the Musk's feuding with current and former Twitter engineers. I'm not convinced he's very bright.
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Wait did that fucking dipshit billionaire man child literally conduct a "What do you do here?" publicly?
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Should that situation arise you’d probably be in luck if you own the gas station - turning him down for the job would in all likelihood make him buy the gas station for 2 billion dollars…
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At the rate it's going, the free market is going to take care of that real fast. Major advertisers were already leery, and that was before eliminating their ability to actually moderate anything. The investment bankers that financed much of this deal are finding nobody trusts Musk to run it and won't buy in except for pennies on the dollar, so they have debt they can't move in a company whose CEO is openly talking about bankruptcy (while also claiming he wants to get into banking, for some reason).
The cash burn might be going down by firing everyone, but it's taking the revenue side down with it. The only thing that's going up in this is the amount of memes being made at Elon's expense. At some point the losses will rack up to the point that if they don't start acting like a serious company again, it'll just face shutdown.
And that's assuming the site doesn't just start having technical problems due to losing most of its infrastructure staff.
They'll be teaching this in business schools in a few years.
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So between the layoffs of Twitter employees, and now the purging of contractors, has 75% of Twitter's staff been fired?
It might involve an asterisk, but the rumors of Musk laying off 75% of the staff seem pretty spot on.
It might involve an asterisk, but the rumors of Musk laying off 75% of the staff seem pretty spot on.
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Cue the inevitable excuses that Musk & hard-right will start throwing around.
"It can't be Musk's fault Twitter failed, he is the world's richest man and a genius"
"Stoopid libs destroyed it"
"This was all done purpose because freeze peach"
"This is good since Twitter is going to bounce back stronger than ever"
"This is good since Twitter was a demoncrat cesspool"
"It can't be Musk's fault Twitter failed, he is the world's richest man and a genius"
"Stoopid libs destroyed it"
"This was all done purpose because freeze peach"
"This is good since Twitter is going to bounce back stronger than ever"
"This is good since Twitter was a demoncrat cesspool"
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Elon Musk is not a smart man, and it's time people in general start acknowledging that.
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Can we just announce the shutdown already?
Don't get me wrong I love a good dumpster fire, but it's getting actually sad at this point.
Don't get me wrong I love a good dumpster fire, but it's getting actually sad at this point.
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TIL that some companies hold design and development meetings on Twitter. Where everyone can see it.
Thought this honestly isn't the most bonkers thing Musk has done lately.
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They already had a 500% increase in people using racial slurs in the immediate aftermath of Musk completing the takeover.
So...they're going to, and it's going the ugly as hell when they do.
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No no no, he's rich and therefore he's smart. /s
Definitely not a rich kid who lucked into investing his parents blood emerald money into tech as it was booming.
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Fancy Internet Person
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I don't use Twitter and from what I've seen, it has more bad than good.
But it's also been a tool used by people to find communities and connect with peers they didn't know they had. It's foolish to dismiss that or to ignore that loss.
Twitter has also done a lot of harm, the positives don't nullify that harm at all.
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It not only continues, it sounds like they're trying to extinguish it by throwing thermite into it.
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