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Re:Dear @elonmusk [...] your head of HR is not able to confi... by veec_cas_tant on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:42PM (#35050877)
What is bullshit about Figma, I don't get it?

I don't get how you are coming to the conclusion that this guy wasn't valuable? I know nothing about him but based on his website [1] he seems pretty accomplished:

- I started an agency called Ueno. I ran it for seven years before it was acquired by Twitter in 2021... - At Ueno we designed digital brands and experiences for companies like Airbnb, Apple, ESPN, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, NY Times, Oculus, PayPal, Uber, Venmo, Visa, Walmart, and many more - ...And let's not forget I was person of the year in Iceland in 2022

Also, Twitter was not almost bankrupt before Elon bought them, that is silly.

[1] https://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com

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Re:Dear @elonmusk [...] your head of HR is not able to confi... by Nextgrid on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:17PM (#35051118)
A person can both be very good at something but also completely useless to the company as company priorities/needs change.

I'm frankly not sure why Twitter needs to own an entire design agency (presumably they've acquired all the staff) especially in 2021 when their design was already set in stone and hasn't changed significantly since then (so indeed, what has this guy been doing?).

Now, I'm not defending Musk here and especially not this childish reaction - he should be following the accepted protocol for making employees redundant instead of cutting them off and laughing at them publicly on social media.

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Re:Dear @elonmusk [...] your head of HR is not able to confi... by throwntoday on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:10PM (#35051068)
Well if had value to twitter he wouldn't have been fired.
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