If twitter can manage to run smoothly with 300 employees, RIP tech workers

It doesn't happen over night. Although in Twitters case it might, with such a reduction in employees there are bound to have some serious issues.

But I've watched it happen. People leave and yeah its fine for the most part.... until it comes time to actually deal with the thing that that person did or something they had implemented no one else touched. And sure, you get through, but its painful. Even on an individual basis, it sucks up a bunch of peoples time that could be more efficiently used. Now imagine that on a massive scale. Sure that guy with the "mission critical" job may not seem that impactful when they leave on their own, but get rid of a ton of those guys and suddenly you are making no progress on anything while you are putting out fires.

If Musks plan is to burn it all down start from scratch why wouldn't he have just done that in the first place. Buying Twitter at 44bn just to hit the reset button on the business makes no sense at all and is certainly not a normal business strategy so he must have some trick up his sleeve to write the whole thing off when it goes under or some other magic idea.

Airpods will make apple the target of a class action lawsuit when the neurological problems they cause are fully brought to light. Whenever I see someone wearing them I think that they are making themselves mentally ill.

There is probably a lot of redundancy in tech companies, as they had the tendency to hire smart people even if they did not strictly need them for at least a couple of reasons 1) so that they would not work for a competitor and 2) to build redundancy, so that when a critical employee suddenly leaves, they do not have to scramble for a replacement. For these reasons, there was probably some room to lay off a good chunk of employees without immediately impacting business, but this should have been done gradually and after accurate vetting. As far as I can tell, the way it has been done is a mess and the most likely outcome is that Twitter will lose the most skilled people that can easily find a job somewhere else and remain stuck with those that cannot find another job.

What exactly does one learn at improv class ?

HR/BENEFITS
The Top 20 Coolest Employee Perks

Twitter: Three catered meals a day, on-site acupuncture, and improv classes.

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-top-20-coolest-employee-perks.html

Elon got rid of the entire research department that does the forward thinking, without a clue to the ideas they were researching. I know that because Matt Farah's (car YouTuber/podcaster/businessman) wife was the director of that department of about 150. Elon probably thought he'd be the sole idea guy?

Probably not, but I wouldn't be surprised if he targeted Farah's wife because Matt is part of the car media critical of Tesla's fake promises about the safety of and timeline of "full self driving" (which has been coming next year for ages).

Twitter’s Net Loss was:

2021 $0.2 Billion

2020 $1.1 Billion

In Q2 2022, they lost $0.3 Billion (I don’t believe that they released their Q3 FS publicly). I can’t believe that there was any improvement.

Pretty easy to beat that performance.

Reducing salaries significantly will help for sure.

It’s called capitalism and being able to do whatever the fvck you want with your big a$$ company

How to not have a stick up your ass? Companies routinely have stuff like this in the recruiting material but it rarely maters. Free food is a perk so you work 12 hours days and don't waste time cooking. You get some good conversations about work when refueling.

Andrew Tate was reinstated on Twitter. Twitter is saved!

Also, I don't use Twitter much, but am I the only one whose feed isn't filled with racial slurs and HAAAAAATE SPEEEEEECH, like the Musk-hating alarmists have claimed Twitter is now? I feel like if you're seeing the N word constantly on your feed, you might be a racist.

Half the fun of the tech industry is a bunch of middle aged neck bearded dudes who don’t do anything and drive BMWs. I don’t want to see a heartless Elon musk go total fascist on the tech bros.

I don’t disagree with you that normally a gradual transition is preferred. But given the overt and displayed animosity exhibited towards Musk by many employees I’m not sure he had much of a choice. I’ll wager he’s escaped many tech issues by avoiding internal sabotage by having shaken loose most of the disgruntled. There was too much risk having them linger around with access to critical systems and processes

150 people to do research and forward thinking? Puhleeze. That’s a job for 4-8 people max

It's nice to see Twitter isn't a censorship hellhole anymore. I didn't know how bad the leftist echochambering was until I learned that the BABYLON BEE was reinstated, along with Jordan Peterson. A known satire outlet and a renowned psychologist lost their Twitter privileges, but Ali Khamenei, a theocrat known for his human rights violations gets to keep his platform. Makes sense.

I think reinstating popular and controversial figures like Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate and other non-leftists will help to bring back traffic. Once advertisers realize that there won't be a leftist flight as predicted, and maybe a more diverse demographic will be drawn back to the app, they'll start paying for ads again. Musk has stated he isn't committed to censorship which means Twitter will still be able to function as a leftist echochamber of vitriol and insanity, so I don't think Twitter is going to go under.

Yeah... no offense but it's not surprising that's the first thing that got cut.

To be fair, the "forward thinking" is my interpretation of what the research department did and might not be all that the research department did. I have no actual idea and "research" can cover a lot of ground. I'm just a listener to a podcast of the former head of that department's husband. (Caveat: 150 is off memory. I'm not re-listening long podcasts to verify that I remembered that number right or if it was just something that randomly popped into my head.)

Anyway, it seems that since he wants to take Twitter into new directions, it would have made sense to see what people who have thought and researched a lot about that could contribute. He didn't spare 4-8 people, he cut 100% of the research department.

*Plus, Musk didn't go over and ask to hear ideas or get any insight into what the research department did. Her (head of department last 2 years) work email got cut off at 11pm, and she got a layoff email the next morning. That's just throwing away knowledge very specific to Twitter.

Looking up Twitter research:

I thought this was worth responding to. I work in commercial space. People who worked in SpaceX have definitely gotten to share in the wealth in a way that people who worked at Blue Origin and other commercial space companies have not. In fact, of all commercial space companies, X is definitely the best for having actually made money. If Twitter makes it, Elon will definitely share the wealth with his employees in a way that many other leaders have not.