Posted on 11/04/2022 12:39:26 PM PDT by libh8er
Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week, The Verge has learned.
The areas of Twitter impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include its product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even certain core engineering teams, according to tweets by laid-off employees and people familiar with the matter. More company leaders, including Arnaud Weber, VP of consumer product engineering, and Tony Haile, a senior director of product overseeing Twitter’s work with news publishers, have also been laid off following Musk’s firings of Twitter’s senior leadership last week.
Given the sweeping nature of Musk’s layoffs and his mandate to cut costs in areas like cloud hosting, employees who remain at Twitter told The Verge that they expect the company to have a hard time maintaining critical infrastructure in the short term. “Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee who requested anonymity to speak without the company’s permission, while another called management’s layoff process “an absolute shit show.”
Musk’s cuts began Thursday evening, shortly after an unsigned memo was sent internally confirming the company would “go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce.” Impacted employees quickly realized they were locked out of their work accounts well before they were notified of their job status by another unsigned email titled “Your Role at Twitter.”
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Gutted like a fish, or gutted like an overweight redneck?
I’d be happy if Twitter burst into flames.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.............
That’s so sad. :)
90% of Twitter Asia gone
85% of Twitter India gone
Chinese Twitter censorship team gone
Boo hoo....these are the people that promoted lockdowns and shuttered businesses. F them.
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Who Cares????????
Drain the swamp.
I have worked at 4 companies that were bought out by other companies.
This happened at every one of them.
These people are not special........................
> “Shit is gonna start breaking,”
Yeah, I worked at a university during the pandemic shutdown. Lots of servers in closets were suddenly inaccessible and no one was available to just walk over and power cycle them. Oopsie, never worried about that dependency.
Learn to code. Oh wait …
It’s okay. They can just start their own business.
Good.
The insider knows the secrets will be revealed..
There I decoded his “ s is going to break”
Gutted like a melted precious snowflake.
Oh!
The horror!
Cue the Flight of the Valkyries
Exactly.
They are losing the control of the narrative.👍
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