Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by jonathankoren on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:10AM (#33468015)

While the idea that Twitter was mismanaged is certainly part of his motivation, it doesn’t explain Musk’s behavior at Tesla or “SlaveX”. In fact, flipping the table over the first week belies more than a little arrogance and little motivation to understand what he bought. (There’s reports that he wants to cut half of infrastructure costs. Fail whale anyone?)

He’s a billionaire that treats employees like shit.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by merely-unlikely on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:39AM (#33468497)

> flipping the table over the first week belies more than a little arrogance and little motivation to understand what he bought

Typically you want to make major changes as soon as possible after a transition of power. It sets a new baseline to work from and avoids an overhang of fear that more drastic changes may be coming. You change regime and set a calm new normal.

It's also crucial to not then continue making drastic changes. Tbd on that.

I say that both for the weekend work crunch and the layoffs. The long hours and removal of benefits should be harsher on day one than going forward. You want to set the tone upfront and shake out people who aren't willing to go along, but you don't want to make unsustainable practices a constant. And you especially do not want the overhang of fear of additional layoffs coming.

So important to make harsh decisions day one and then back off a bit going forward.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by SpicyLemonZest on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:21AM (#33468231)

That's not obviously unreasonable to me. "Half" is a suspiciously round number, but coming out of an era of very easy money, it'd surprise me if any large company doesn't have some double digit percentage of infra spending that's not really necessary.

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