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  • D 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.

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    Slacker007
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    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.

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    • F 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?

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      Slacker007
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      I am fairly certain that having no social life and working long hours at high intensity will produce many vices to indulge in. :laugh:

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      • F 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?

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

        My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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

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          Nelek
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          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.

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          • S 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.

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            dandy72
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            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.

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            • F 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?

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              Gary R Wheeler
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              Inspired douche-buggery

              Software Zen: delete this;

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              • F 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?

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                rnbergren
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                Work.............. Life................. Balance............ I do wonder about this "quiet quitting" phenomenon. Apparently people are doing their jobs and just their WHOLE job and then shockingly they are going outside and enjoying life. Apparently people are then happier with life. I mean who would have thunk of such a thing.

                To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

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                • F 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?

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                  Dan Neely
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                  Regular high intensity work, or [Special High Intensity Training?](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/mootaz/ftp/html/ellen.html)

                  Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius

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                  • F 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?

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                    obermd
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                    Why is anyone surprised by this. Look at his other successful companies, Tesla and SpaceX, and you see this same work environment. Boring Company doesn't seem to be as successful and you also don't hear about this type of work environment there. Had Musk just done this when he took over he wouldn't have had to fire half the staff. They would have quit, saving him 90 days salary for over 3,500 people. A change in work requirements leading people to mass quitting is not one of the triggers in either the US WARN act or its California counterpart, so long as those work requirement changes are consistently applied and for longer than the notification periods required by these two Laws.

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                    • F 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?

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                      abmv
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                      will the birds fly out of the cage ?

                      Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long

                      We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. - Greta Thunberg

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                      • F 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.

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                        Paul Sanders the other one
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                        > I'm not saying Musk's approach will work in the long run... It's a terrible idea. It is positively the worst way to get the best out of people and extremely bad for their mental health. [Edit] Haha, employees are voting with their feet, serves that dipstick right: [Twitter ‘closes offices’ after Elon Musk’s loyalty oath sparks wave of resignations | Twitter | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/17/elon-musk-twitter-closes-offices-loyalty-oath-resignations)

                        Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

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