Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired

Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by mynameisvlad on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:13PM (#33836228)

> And how a lot of people had nothing better to do on their own projects than to help a person in charge to complete changes.

I don't think any of it had to do with people having "nothing better to do on their own projects".

I don't know about you, but if my new boss, the one that threatened to fire 3/4ths of the staff, told me to do something, it doesn't matter what I was working on before, my sole new project would be what the boss wanted.

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by MikePlacid on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:55PM (#33837473)

True. But the article does not mention that it was the boss who told the author to pitch in:

>Some of us had worked through the weekend trying to help out a colleague who’d been given an insanely tight deadline

Note: the deadline was given to "a colleague", not to "our team". Same here:

>My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in.

Also note that he seems to never have worked on such a schedule before:

>I actually quite enjoyed it.

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