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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by shswkna on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:50AM (#33394945)
If Musk would have announced the details of the layoffs within 24 hours of closing the twitter deal, commentators would have said, “So soon after taking over it is be impossible to make an informed decision about how to restructure and who to keep and who to layoff.

If he uses the best means of making an informed decision (use capable engineers he trusts and that are outsiders to twitter) and takes some time to properly consult, commentators say, “It is complete chaos and an information vacuum. He is just driving fear.”

It is right to closely watch people in power. But it doesn’t absolve each of us of the responsibility to hold us to similar standards when commenting. Most commentators come across as being in a hysterical, and not in a judicious frame of mind.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by sangnoir on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:22PM (#33398861)
What you outlined were not the only viablw options: Musk had months to do a proper transition after signing the agreement. He chose not to do that, for reasons best known to him.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by freejazz on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:21AM (#33402031)
It should be expected that when you force yourself into a bad situation, and can only make bad decisions, people will observe that you made a bad decision when you inevitably do.
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