Elon Musk's Ultimatum to Twitter Staff Results in Many Employees Resign

[engine]

Earlier this week Elon Musk asked all twitter employees to be part of the company's "extremely hardcore" reset of the business. Apparently, hundreds of employees took him up on his offer to take severance package, or to agree to the new terms he laid out in what he called "Twitter 2.0."

[theverge.com...]

[Marshall]

Not sure if this is a prudent move on his part or an attempt to kill Twitter. As I said in another post, he appears to being throwing things against the wall to see what sticks.

On what is a sad comment when you think about it, even if he loses his $44 billion investment, he will still be the richest person in the world. That being the case, do you think he truly cares what happens.

[engine]

>do you think he truly cares what happens.

I think he cares to make things a success, but he doesn't care how he does it. He's acting petulantly, which is not how someone in a major company should act.

If he pulls it around he'll be hailed a hero, and if he doesn't, he'll have fewer investors wanting to support him in future projects.

[super70s]

Reminds me of Capt. Queeg in The Caine Mutiny: "Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you."

[lucy24]

Reminds me of Capt. Queeg in The Caine Mutiny

Yes, and see where it got him :)

[tangor]

Meanwhile, it does clear out the "do the least to get by" kind of employees who would be kind of worthless for productivity in the first place.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Perspective is useful. Having to actually show up and perform is hardcore, really?

Meanwhile major companies hire kids to work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, at a dime an hour and that's fine I guess. You probably have some of their products in your closet and don't even know it. Somehow poor Twitter employees losing their free lunch is what media is encouraging people to focus on...