Twitter Before and After Elon Musk
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I want you all to consider that Twitter has laid off 50% of it's employees.
Now quickly think to yourself if you've ever been at a job where you had mass layoffs, and as yourself "did it impact the service our company provided?"
I've been around places where 10% layoffs caused a huge drop in service.
Yet, Twitter is functioning as if nothing has changed, and 50% of it's staff is gone.
Just how utterly worthless were these people?
These aren't workers, peasants, or even slaves. They're pets. The company paid to just have them lollygag around doing nothing all day. At least slaves did something productive.
I always saw pre-Musk Twitter as an adult daycare. But now that you point this out, it turns out it was more of a goddamn human petting zoo.
So many jobs are just there to funnel money towards women and diversity hires. There are many videos you can watch of these people doing their "jobs" which at most consists of sending a few emails.
I briefly dated a girl who worked for government and 90% of her job was copying numbers from one spreadsheet to another.
She knew it could be automated and she knew her job should not exist, but she had been happily taking her near 6 figure paycheck for nearly 4 years when I met her.
a smart employee would automate the job and turn the position into "They guy who maintains the automation".
Calling the average (pre-Musk) Twatter employee human is quite a stretch.
That's the creepiest thing. They are kind of a corporate pet. I don't think they were any one specific person's pets. It was as if they were the corporation's pets. They existed basically to look and sound nice, while doing nothing of particular value, for the benefit of the corporations. It's not like the board of directors was actively observing them and getting praise. They were pets of a master that isn't real. It was like the act of being a pet was being fetishized.
My only explanation is that there are some number of predators hunting these people at different levels and in different ways that wanted this kind of thing to continue.
I think a lot of them were probably generating content
Bitching about your job and gossiping is not valuable content, though.
i never said it was good content
curating
It laid off 50%. Then a week later, 75% of the remaining 50% quit.
I agree with you, but still, I think we should wait a few months before we start gloating.
They lost entire departments. Losing 90% of a department is one thing, losing the whole thing means you're losing unwritten knowledge. The people leaving will keep whatever tricks of operation to themselves. The whole thing can go down bc of something the current staff doesn't know how to fix.
World cup starts tomorrow. Twitter at max capacity is when it's the most vulnerable. Is there enough people there to troubleshoot whatever crap goes wrong?
The leftists will be trying to take it down. There will be hacks and script kiddies. Under normal circumstances this isn't an issue, but in the middle of a restructuring they're vulnerable.
You know that at least some of the people who didn't quit are infected by the woke brain virus. Maybe they stayed bc they're on a visa, and their blue haired gf is whispering in their ear to be a "hero". Maybe they stayed bc they intend to sabotage it.
Governments will now target Twitter with all their spite. Whether that's EU bc they're not compliant with some bullshit rule, or the US through the political system or the agencies, there exists institutions with the power to end twitter.
A lot can still go wrong.
Twitter is functionning better after firing the political activists and diversity hires.
Personally, I'm watching cautiously to see if the functionality degrades. Over the past week I'm noticing that old liked posts are no longer marked as liked, even though they still show up on the feed. I worked software so if I have to imagine how it might work on the backend, they probably have to refresh the cache or the search index, which might've been affected when Elon supposedly took down many of the microservices.
I will admit I find the hostile takeover to be rather unorthodox. But I guess if your primary goal is to purge deadweight instead of ensuring smooth transition, it's not a bad strategy. Time will tell.
I've been a fan of his takeover, it's what I would have done
The only thing that he seems to be struggling with is that this is a business that is far outside of his wheelhouse. He has never made a social media site. There's going to be errors and problems, but securing the institution once you've taken it over, and purging resistance, is the first objective. Even before profitability.