Long Hours At High Intensity

fgs1963

READ IT: Elon Musk Tells Twitter Staff To Work ‘Long Hours At High Intensity’ Or Hit The Road | The Daily Wire[^] Well, this should be fun... ...to watch from afar. Where is the :popcorn: emoji when you need it?

megaadam

So... profitability through XCLLNT CODEZ Errr... How 'bout a business model? :cool:

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

fgs1963

Twitter Revenue and Usage Statistics (2022) - Business of Apps[^] Twitter has only turned a profit 2 of the last 10 years (2018 & 2019). Cumulatively they're at a $1 billion loss. Obviously, something drastic needed to change - it's simply not sustainable. I'm not saying Musk's approach will work in the long run... I have no idea. I personally find social media (in nearly all it's forms) to be very bad for society - so I'm hoping he fails. But the status quo at Twitter was sure to fail.

Rick York

That is an effective way of filtering out most of your capable people.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Matthew Dennis

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"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

jeron1

So, QA will soon be inundated with 'Gimme Teh Codez Plz' types of requests?

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

fgs1963

LMFTFY

jeron1 wrote:

So, QA will soon be inundated with even more 'Gimme Teh Codez Plz' types of requests?

jeron1

Truth. :sigh:

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

megaadam

Nowhere am I advocating status quo. All I suggest is:

1. [tell them to] work hard as Elephant and be grateful
2. find an idea to work on

seems like the wrong order of things

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

megaadam

mind you, I do not mind if he fails

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

dandy72

If he can't fire the number of people he wants to get rid of, get them to choose to quit on their own. Then the company isn't on the hook for any sort of termination compensation. Seems pretty obvious. Someone convince me that wasn't his strategy all along.

fgs1963

megaadam wrote:

seems like the wrong order of things

Could be, but then I have no idea what ideas he is having them work on. He had publicly mentioned account verification, bringing back Vine and some all-inclusive program "X". Now he mentions Twitter 2.0. It's hard for me to imagine that the man dropped $44 billion only to flush it all away so quickly but... we live in crazy times.

Slacker007

I don't know, when I Google "High Intensity" all I get is HIIT high intensity training (aka working out really hard). Which includes a lot of health benefits from lowered body fat and heart rate, and lowered blood pressure, among others. I can't possibly see any health benefits in working long hours at a high intensity. :doh:

fgs1963

Slacker007 wrote:

I can't possibly see any health benefits in working long hours at a high intensity.

No social life or spare time to indulge your vices?

Slacker007

I'm still convinced he wants to punish the staff before he sinks the ship. I don't think he had any intention of making this a profitable endeavor, especially since he took it private as well.

Slacker007

I am fairly certain that having no social life and working long hours at high intensity will produce many vices to indulge in. :laugh:

RaviBee

I think there'll be a lot of hitting the road if he's not careful. :) /ravi

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Nelek

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

I think there'll be a lot of hitting taking the road and saying "screw you" if he's not careful. :)

FTFY

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

dandy72

While I wouldn't mind seeing Twitter disappear (for the scourge that it is), I don't see how this would ultimately had been his goal, even if he has the money to burn to do it. If that's been his plan all along, then I thank him for taking that bullet. Y'know, for the sake of humanity. Then I would plead for him to do the same to Facebook.

Gary R Wheeler

Inspired douche-buggery

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