Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job cuts

Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by nharada on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:38PM (#33412659)

I don't understand why so many people celebrate when Elon treats his underlings like trash. Is it because people hate Twitter and think if you work there you deserve this? Is it because they want to have Elon's level of power and fame where the rules don't apply to them? Something else?

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by boruto on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:58PM (#33413023)

Imagine if this was Ellison HN would be going bonkers, Now that it is musk, lot of comments saying it is fine and dandy.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by prions on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:06PM (#33413132)

Because the aggrieved aren’t satisfied only by Elon taking over twitter and taking it in a different direction, they also believe that those currently at twitter deserve harsh punishment for whatever role they had in twitter.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by PixyMisa on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:32PM (#33413528)

Correct.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by potatolicious on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:01PM (#33413912)

The cruelty is the point with authoritarians.

Also one perennial observation with authoritarian-friendly people is that in their dog-eat-dog fantasy they are the badass warlord sitting atop a pile of bones rather than the nameless goon that lies at the bottom of the bonepile.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by xeromal on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:02PM (#33413928)

Probably the same reason people watch drama TV and soaps. It's entertainment

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by lupire on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:39AM (#33416996)

But why are they cheering for the villain?

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by xeromal on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:42AM (#33417020)

Loads of people like negative drama. Housewives, Love is Blind, 90 day fiance are all full of really terrible shitty people.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by fzeroracer on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:19PM (#33414106)

All of the above, plus a fair bit of delusion. The amount of people I've seen pretending to be engineers in order to normalize the most ridiculous things he says or does has been growing and when pressed they often just vanish or stop responding.

That said, should Twitter eventually fall apart it will never be the fault of Musk. It will be because insiders preventing his vision, or the government blocked him, or any number of excuses.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by aljungberg on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:26PM (#33414816)

Hasn’t it been a popular topic on here of how bloated Twitter’s staff seems to be given how little the platform has apparently changed over the years? Not taking a stance on that, I don’t know, but to that cohort of commenters this probably seems like victory for common sense.

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