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Elon & Twitter
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The Spruce Goose flew!
Ya. Strong disagree here. I’m starting to wish I figured out how to be an investor in his twitter
sleepydoc
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Fired by tweet: Elon Musk's latest actions are jeopardizing Twitter, experts say
Firing an employee by social media, giving others an ultimatum, and battling possible bankruptcy: the latest actions by Musk are hurting business, a labor lawyer and tech PR specialist tell NPR.
www.npr.org
ZenRockGarden
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I think he's gone past "restructuring" and is now into "destructuring"
What/who is SV?
I'm assuming "Silicon Valley". Twitter is in San Francisco and some people don't consider that part of Silicon Valley
ZenRockGarden
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Yep, because as we all know, when new management rolls in, insults the existing staff, fires half of everyone, and then demands 80 hour workweeks or you should quit - this causes the most talented, marketable, anyone-would-love-to-have-them employees to stay.
I've been thru a half dozen layoffs. They always go in two waves. First management tries to get rid of weak or under-important staff (and does so poorly because they often don't know who's actually doing the great work). Then in the following week you lose the top-20% most talented people who've had offers from competitors waiting for them all along.
The low performers who got missed by the first axe? They STAY because they know they can't easily find good work elsewhere and they can blame anything they screw up on the guys that got axed.
You're hardly the first one making this comparison: Crazy Aviators: The Eerie Similarities Between Billionaire Howard Hughes And Elon Musk
Note the date of the article, let's just say all past proclamation like this has all failed completely.
You can't be a low performer and work 80hrs a week. That in itself makes you a high performer. Ever heard of that lazy guy who stays in the office till midnight?
Yes, very briefly. Once. Let's hope Elon doesn't have to pilot Twitter solo.
sleepydoc
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ZenRockGarden
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Low performers can log 80 hours. They're wiling to sit around and be on the clock - they're just not TALENTED.
Seriously - have you ever been thru a 50% layoff where the super talented people all stayed? It's literally standard proceedure for competitors to read the news of a force reduction, lure at least one good player over and then pump him for "who's actually good that's still there?" and poach like mad, and they are not making offers to the "I need a 3 month sabattical each year" crowd.
I’m thinking it’s probably going to be difficult for software engineers to find job in this environment. Elon will have plenty of talent to pick from because of all the recent layoffs at other companies. That’s if he needs to hire people.
Lol it takes a type of special person to want to work in a high stress 80hr/week environment. Not many people are this dedicated, and if you are then you are most likely of quality when you know poor quality gets you fired instantly.
Musk is sleeping in the office breathing down your neck. You are with elite programmers who can see your BS from miles away. If this sounds fun to you then you have to be an elite programmer too as no one likes to work 12hrs a day to be publicly humiliated. And no you can't log 80hrs a wk watching YouTube.
Musk has always demanded 3x productivity from his workers and he has always got 3x. How else do you think Tesla has the highest margins in the industry beating rivals century old?
ZenRockGarden
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Keep smoking whatever you've got - it must be great stuff.
Elon will have both a horrific lack of internal talent and knowledge, and a very hard time hiring good new people given how he's treated the existing ones.
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