play stupid games, win stupid prizes
This applies to elon more than any of the fired employees
He never wanted to buy twitter and was close to being sued. Definitely play stupid games, spend 44 billion and win a stupid prize.
This is shit but sadly most other people would do the same if they were in his position. 'Rogue' engineers are seen as a threat to the firm by management.
You say that as if someone else would be thin-skinned enough to wander into the position of paying over 3x the valuation of a social media company based on a shit posting dare. We are witnessing once in a lifetime incompetence.
@Reddit Honestly, competency is overrated. In this world, it feels like competency gets you high paying jobs. Somehow incompetent people are on the polar spectrums, most broke, some 1%ers
I'm sure there's more to that.. it's always "I didn't do anything.. I just shit posted on slack.."
You've never worked at a small, shitty mom and pop eh?
I thought he was a champion for “freedom of speech”
it's just a creative way to fire employees with cause. he's been trying to downsize.
Free speech 🎤 dead Free speech by definition is whatever Elon likes to hear - just like how Trump defines it- that’s why actually nobody cares about free speech - specially Elon musk. Say something bad against Elon , you will be fired or banned.
This isn’t a free speech issue, and it’s alarming that you work at Meta and don’t understand that. It would be a free speech issue if he banned their twitter accounts after terminating employment.
@Zillow it’s pretty simple. In the second case, Twitter/Meta assert that they are legally not responsible for any speech that occurs on its platform. This is because they both assert that users own their own content. If Twitter/Meta want to pull the “we are a private company, we can block any accounts we want”, then they also have to legally take responsibility for all content on their platform. They legally can’t have it both ways: “we’re a private company we can do whatever we want, we own this platform” but also “users own all their content on this platform so we are not legally responsible for anything posted”. If Twitter wants to take legal responsibility for all content on their platform, then there are 0 issues with them censoring whatever they want. This is similar to how any news organization operates and is treated (aka NYT / CNN / FOX). They’ve scapegoated this in the past with section 230, but section 230 is unconstitutional (will be stricken down soon if it’s not repealed for other problematic reasons, aka it’s also anticompetitive).
If I were Musk I’d do the same, at least during a takeover of a company. Fire the people who hate your guts, and are only staying as an insider
And in the process cause those who either like you or are on the fence to possibly turn against you as well? Having a difference of opinion is a chance to talk and see if common ground can be found. Not kick people out because they don't blindly follow your every word
Lol Paypal do you know what kind of people worked at twitter? They aren't your normal people just having different opinions
Why would anyone think that criticizing the CEO of your company will go over well? They should be fired for cause without severance
I am not Elon fan but I also think that Twitter employees are bitter against Elon. They do have a reason for that but at the end of the day, Elon now owns Twitter. Does employees at Meta or Google or Microsoft or other big tech critize the owner publicly? I don’t think they do.
Elon is being stupid. He doesn’t seem to consult anyone at the company and makes brash claims.
I get that but trying to fight with the person who owns your company, who is also the richest person, and who is known to make unwarranted harsh decisions is just pure idiotic. It’s like I intentionally put myself in a cage with a hungry lion and then try to justify why I did that. It isn’t worth it. Just move on and find job somewhere else if you could.
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