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

Interesting. I'd say based on those tweets jettisoning the twitter research folks wasn't a great loss. They had their first in-person meeting since Covid in May of '22? Really?? They are clearly not motivated. Beyond that, there are barely any tweets. I can think of a lot of reasons why the innovation wing of twitter should actually be tweeting about the stuff they come up with. What were they doing? Clearly Elon concluded not much.

Did Musk give a share of the company to all remaining employees?

Either way, if it fails they get nothing.

There is a probable chance they are risking their health and personal time for nothing.
I know I value my personal time, which you can never get back, over money.

For example, I ran after college instead of working because I could always make money later, but would never get that prime of my life back to see how fast I could run. I do not regret that.

Or those 300 get major pay bumps that still cost way below the cost of 10k employees

No, we aren't. wtf?

I was one of them

does twitter still work? everyone told me it was facing IMMINENT COLLAPSE

Yes, the "imminent collapse" is coming!!

Just like the "autumn surge" or COVID and Monkeypax in schools...

Just like "kids need boosters" or "'rona shots save kids lives."

Just like "the walls are closing in on Trump"-- they say this more in New York, maybe, where a fatuous, ineffective Attorney General "got" him in a CIVIL indictment involving real estate valuation... huh? (I disdain Trump but despise posturing, corrupt sh*tlibs more.)

"Imminent collapse," if it doesn't happen, is the greatest evidence of yet of what a fraud "progressive" echo chamber Twitter had become.

If I’m being honest, I’m enjoying this crash and burn of Twitter. People put way too much emphasis on what goes on on this APP

When 90% of your staff only exists to "content moderate", it means you are overstaffed by 9X.

Where's all the wokes crying about Trump getting voted back on? Maybe they all really did leave, and haven't heard.

But there it is, there's more users than ever, a majority voted to let Trump back, that's not gonna scare most advertisers.

If I were an entreprenerd before I bought a company I might have thought of all kinds of ways, maybe even paid people to come up with all kinds of innovations to make it more streamlined before I bought it. They would be secret and triggered when I bought the damn thing. Would it look pretty, not at first. Time to know the outcome isn't here you armchair quarterbacks.

Is there an instruction manual on worshipping the man with the money in this cult, or is it just, "Work until you can't work any more and are divorced and your kids have grown up with about 20 minutes of your time per week. Kthnkxbai."

The departing twitter engineers said their "critical function" was unstaffed and the site would collapse this weekend.

Still working for me. Has twitter crashed for you all?

Ryan Stevens, 39, worked at a Verizon call center in Tennessee before switching to the tech industry in 2009, drawn by workplace perks and higher pay. He was employed in product- operations roles at Google, Meta and the question and answer site Quora.

“It was a culture shock in a good way,” Mr. Stevens said of his move to the Bay Area.

The stock and options Mr. Stevens collected over the years were less generous than what his software- engineering peers earned, but he still hoped they would help him buy a house when he started a family. His goal was to put a 20% down payment on a $1.5 million property—about $300,000.

Now the father of a 2-year-old, Mr. Stevens can’t tap the stock options from his six years at Quora, which remains private.

Meta gave him a grant worth $80,000 over four years when he started at the firm in August 2021. Last November, Meta laid him off along with thousands of others. After cashing out some shares to cover expenses, Mr. Stevens has stock valued at about $10,000 left.

“All of that was just supposed to come together magically down the road and set us up for homeownership,” Mr. Stevens said, “and make us feel like we made it.”

wsj.com

Tech Workers Aren’t as Rich as They Used to Be

Rachel Louise Ensign | Photographs by Marissa Leshnov for The Wall Street Journal

Stock declines have wiped out billions of dollars of paper gains meant for big-ticket expenses.

Open link

He's 100% right, though. You could do the same at the IRS, HHS etc and not notice the difference. Gotta fire the right people though. No seniority bs.

You know nothing about software.

It's funny that you think they have 10k tech employees. A bunch of their employees I'm sure were marketing people. A bunch were in charge of contracts for advertising. They would have a large financial department. A ton of people working security and networking. I'd be surprised if more than 20% were actually doing the development. And really a lot of that 20% were probably 'higher up' project manager type people who weren't doing the actual development. And if you already have a running application there's not a ton you need to keep the ball rolling. But you would need a lot of people to make any new innovations. They could keep things as they are for several years but it would feel like an antiquated application and something else would take its place.

Twitter's mindshare and relevancy is down at least 90% as well. It's a shell of it's glory days.