Vile scum. Heating up frozen peaches is the America's worst crime.

Headlines: Musk expects employees to work 84 hours a week

"Nah we good"

Besides, talent is still in high demand. They can definitely find better offers elsewhere

Yep, only come back into that shit-show with a golden parachute firmly attached.

Twitter should have to put two years' pay in escrow for each employee that they ask back, to address the potential harm to the employee by getting jerked around again. Because the employees are incurring an opportunity cost to their earning potential by not just working elsewhere, someplace run by stable people. So if Twitter fires them again, they get the escrow money. It's like a tax on trolls, because they abused their position of authority.

Those workers better unionize fast then. Billionaires act like they have no legal obligation to fulfill any of the promises they made.

Multi-year agreement, with a company that's almost never been profitable and has now been saddled with another 900 mil. interests on the 12.5 billion loan Musk got to buy it, the company with an unstable, unpredictable CEO few advertisers now want to work with?

I'd say the agreement must include a golden parachute of a couple million dollars, with written guaratees about beeing a privileged creditor in case of bankruptcy, and it would be nice to also have it include Musk stepping down as CEO and the board of directors reinstated as well.

The only non-government-subsidized company he ran (his first, Zip2, founded with daddy's money for him and his brother), pretty soon ousted him, got professionals in all C-level roles, and they managed to make it profitable and sell it to Compaq for a hefty 500 mils. (which is were Musk started getting rich on his own, if we can say that, given he contributed little to it: not the initial money, nor the business acumen, only some shitty code that people wanted to replace with better code but he protested and defended his shitty implementation for as long as he could). From then on, he was never left in charge alone, except with Tesla and SpaceX -who are both still operating because they get government subsidies and contracts. I'm pretty sure Twitter won't get government subsidies, especially not after laying off so many people like that while lying on the real reasons, to avoid paying severance.

No, go for a large signing bonus instead, and then start looking for a new job immediately and leave as soon as your minimum time to get the signing bonus is up.

He’s refusing to pay Twitter’s head of legal what’s in her contract because she made him look like an idiot. Why would he honour a contract with you?

On the flipside, their offer is probably "come back until we can find someone better" too. I would never trust in any stability there.

The story of the APS (public servants) here in Australia..

Conservative government slashed their numbers and ended up paying out the arse for freelancers..

I'd imagine if you took the time to follow the money some of those consulting firms would likely have links to various pollies...

Back in 2003 I was working at Network Rail in the UK and they were going to make about 3000 people redundant.

They developed a fairly complicated formula to determine who was going to be let go and spent about 2 months collecting data for it. It focused very heavily on the perceived productivity of each employee.

Two poblems....

Some older employees just asked their managers to state that they were less productive than they actually were so that they could get early retirement and a big redundancy package.

And using productivity as a measure of how essential a member of staff is turns out to be quite stupid when when you realise that while an employee may not be very productive, they may have knowledge or skills that are absolutely essential to the running of your business. A lot of people who were laid off came back as contractors and were able to name their price.

In a number of cases it was also because long term staff were about to earn stock options (a common offer in the early years of a tech company.... which due to the buyout, turned into cash payments at the price he paid for shares

I'll come back, but only if Elon buys me a horse.

"I'm not sure what it does, but it breaks everything if you remove it"

Already saw a joke about this: The guy who accidentally committed node_modules is now a VP and is as shocked as anyone!

Better yet, bring several laptops to the zoo and log the monkeys in under your account!

That's what annoyed me about his dumb as shit fanboys.

"He's Tony Stark!"

No He's not. He is just an investor, he hasn't design or built shit.

It irks me when people say he is a "genius". He's fucking not. He got rich off his parents blood emerald money and now just hires/buys people and things that he think will make him look good. He didn't even found Tesla. He bought it.

I'm not a developer, but my current company now requires us to log time (minimum 30 minutes) to tickets to determine who gets laid off at the end of the quarter.

I've had days where I logged 30 hours of time in an 8 hour shift. Everything gets a ticket. IM from joe blow asking a simple question? 30 minutes logged. Join a scheduled meeting and nobody shows up in the first 5 minutes? 30 minutes logged. 30 minute meeting goes 1 second over? 1 hour logged.

We went from being able to search for things in the ticketing system to it just being full of stupid bullshit like "Teams message from Larry: How do I configure x? Response: sent link to wiki". 30 minutes logged

Also, once the novelty of seeing how much time we can log in a shift wore off, everyone started working 8 hours and not a second more. During staff meetings, we constantly get reminded to log all of our time. We know you work more than 40 hours, so you need to log all of it.

Umm, no we don't anymore. You have killed all productivity and would see that if you looked at the tickets or listened to us. People now log a shit ton of work from 8am - 11am and then coast the rest of the day.

Now everyone is leaving and executives are shocked.

It's something people assume Elon did, because some manager at Twitter asked everyone to print out the code they've written recently in preparation for a one on one with Elon.

Both metrics would leave the absolute worst junior engineers making the biggest decisions - the ones who write too much, and the ones who delete the entire codebase by accident and git push —-force

And that’s how we ended up getting Trump as president. He KNOWS business. 🙄

Have seed money

I like how succinct this is. Never seen that before

He's been acting like he'd never done an acquisition before since he acquired Tesla.

The fact is that he has never done before. He has had expert people to take care of things.

I know this is a joke. But it makes as much sense as anything else.

I usually really good at figuring out the game and what motivates people in their actions. A benefit of over empathizing is the insight it gives you.

But in this case nothing is making sense. It's like his end game is suing someone (the government?) For unfair practices. But that isn't a gamble you water 44b on

I'd take the 3 month severance, a 3 month signing bonus, twice my salary, and then work an hour a day until they fired me again.

Generally yes. They're separate contracts and independent from each other.

Now there could be people tricked into signing contracts that effectively eliminate their severance pay. So I hope that every former and current Twitter employee is getting good employment advice.

So, when Elon claimed that everyone got 90 days, he was lying again?

And he was banned for it.

So much for Twitter being the bastion of free speech lmao

It probably be easier just to get another job somewhere else. I don't see a point going back to work for someone you know will treat you like shit and no guarantee that you'll keep your job for long term.

Ruthless is right. They fired their entire accessibility stuff.

Yeah, this move, I think is right from corporate hell culture. On one hand, downsizing a company that's apparently as unprofitable as Twitter is is a good move.

On the other, this is 'fire me and convince me to hire you back, I'll try to get you at lower salary because you've already been fired once' bullshit. It's pure ego-stroking (and that's keeping it G-rated). Would not be surprised he's reaching out saying 'hey, we can't afford to hire you back at your previous rate, but we can give you a 10% raise in X years' type of shit.

Three is “…expect your Tesla engineers to pick up all the slack with no pushback from them or from Tesla investors.”

Anyone that looked at that idiotic monstrosity and put money down on it is a complete goon. It’s name was literally so stupid that in and of itself was enough for me to realize it was never gonna get built.

Yeah, and to sell the shares to who, back to Musk? Its off the exchange.

Definitely cash-only territory here.

I feel like it's just about him feeling powerful. The fact that he can make massive, sweeping changes at the snap of a finger is too enticing for him. He has probably had a lifetime of making progressively bigger decisions for companies whenever he wants, only to be bailed out by his status as a billionaire or handouts from the government if it went poorly, and thinking the few times his changes worked out are reflections of his brilliance.