Elon fired a principal engineer last week because the engineer had the temerity to tell him that fewer people wanted to read tweets by the increasingly unhinged Musk.
Morale must be thru the floor, and work/life balance insane.
I sincerely wonder why anyone would stay at a place like that. Are the remaining employees True Believers in Elon and his plan? Are they that afraid of the current job market?
Or was there really tons of dead weight at Twitter? With such deep cuts, I'd have expected even more serious outages than what we've seen so far.
People don't all follow the same career advice book. Or have the same mindset & emotions about Bail vs. Stay. There's a wide bell-curve for pretty much anything involving humans.<p>Speaking as an old geezer - I see a whole lotta people, even older ones, who never really "get" that other people don't share their worldview / emotions / etc. I've had seemingly bright, educated grandparents proclaim to me that they can't believe that anyone would ever do X...just 20 minutes after they told me a story about their own grandkid doing X.
While I can't speak for the employees, some ideas: If the pay is good, they can start doing "just enough" and hope for redundancy. They may be bound by visa/insurance situation. They may be interviewing / looking for good offers. They may be waiting for the current wave of redundancies to pass, waiting for good offers to a appear again. They may not care and just like the money.
families to support, bills to pay, uncertain job market, h1b visas - there are all sorts of reasons people might not have the ability or confidence to leave a crappy job.
> Morale must be thru the floor, and work/life balance insane. I sincerely wonder why anyone would stay at a place like that.<p>There are far more worse places and companies than the blue bird site. I don't see techies here rushing to work for the government or being a retail worker at Walmart or Amazon.<p>> With such deep cuts, I'd have expected even more serious outages than what we've seen so far.<p>Well despite the 'news' suggesting that Twitter will totally collapse in the coming weeks (spoiler: It did not) over 200M+ users are still sitting on Twitter.
Why are folks wailing and gnashing teeth over Mr. Musk buying Twitter, but they still gush like giddy schoolgirls over Tesla, and their "self-driving" vaporware? =confused=
> Elon fired a principal engineer last week because the engineer had the temerity to tell him that fewer people wanted to read tweets by the increasingly unhinged Musk.<p>I have never heard this before. It seems very unlikely and given you seem to have some personal issue with Musk I’m unlikely to believe it unless you provide a source.
> Elon fired a principal engineer last week because the engineer had the temerity to tell him that fewer people wanted to read tweets by the increasingly unhinged Musk.<p>This is false. What actually happened:<p>> “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions,” Musk reportedly said.<p>An employee tried to claim this figure was organic (which is obviously fantastical) and was rightfully fired.
Remember when Steve Jobs would "allegedly" fire you in the elevator if you couldn't explain what you were up to?<p>Now theLoon wants every customer's warranty card to include a paean to his genius. Well, if it was the 1990's.<p>I am a little bit surprised I am still able to "block" the Musk account on Twitter.
>> Or was there really tons of dead weight at Twitter?<p>elon fired > half the company. site runs reasonably well. personally havent seen issues.<p>main question is what these people did.<p>and being in big tech seen this up close. original leadership leave, replace by professional managers. Professional manager have no vision or care about product. only goal to grow head count..get promoted.<p>amazes me why so many people triggered by musk firing half company. class of worker producing no economic value but paid hundreds of thousands USD per year..catered food.. it massive GRIFT. business is business, not charity.