[Jonty30]

Is it possible that some managers purposely listed some people who were vital to the company, just to cause some trouble?

[mewzilla]

I’m still permanently suspended.

Still can’t access my account.

It’s all SSDD to me.

[joma89]

I have seen more than a few job anouncements for twitter recently and I can’t remember seeing any before. Just anecdotal, of course.

[Lazamataz]

He tweeted in May that the "most messed up" thing at Twitter right now is that "there seem to be 10 people ‘managing’ for every one person coding."

Actually, there's something to be said for that.

If people 'managing' are actually people like Scrum Masters, Business Owners and Business SME's, it makes sense to have those people. Actual managers, less important. But the three I listed?

Measure twice and cut once.

[Reno89519]

I doubt it but also not surprised if they made selective re-hires. They still have more bad employees to get rid of.

[I want the USA back]

Musk is looking like he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

[Cronos]

They should return as contractors and charge 59% to 100% more

[logi_cal869]

Losing $4 million/day and Musk bought it anyway at the original price?

I’ve stated that there was some ulterior motive here all along; now we shall see what that might be...

[Robert357]

In Machiavelli's The Prince, he advised that when one conquers a town, the Prince cannot know who the real opponents were and who were either neutral or favored the overthrow of the old monarchs. So his advice was to go in and kill a large number of likely figures. Those who were part of the old power structure would assume that their evil was not discovered and they are safe. Those that were killed and innocent will be missed but no outcry will occur for them as long as the new ruler brings peace, prosperity, and stability.

Elon has, as the new Prince of Twitter, performed the mass killing of the evil old ruling class. Perhaps a little too much, but given the letter by employees lecturing him and the efforts of the Twitter HR department to enroll him in a management course, I can understand the overreaction.

The half the employees who are left will “tow the line” now that the new Prince is in charge. I am sure that some of those hired back will be either grateful to get their jobs back or refuse to come back. Either way, they will know that they are being watched and had better perform or they can be fired again.

[JimRed]

Maybe a planned firing and return invitation to put the fear of unemployment in them, so they’ll behave themselves.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The problem with this story is that it is clearly not entirely accurate.

No Twitter employees have been laid off. The layoffs were ANNOUNCED, but there is a 60-90 day period required before they happen.

So, the employees that are slated to be laid off were told. They are still employees. They are still being paid. They were locked out of work, for security reasons.

Now, Twitter is telling some of those employees to report back to work. If they don’t, I presume they will be assumed to have quit, and will no longer be paid or offered severance.

So, it could be a ploy to keep from having to pay out, or it could be that these employees are trusted or can be monitored, and have skills that are desired over the next few months.

For all I know, they might still be getting laid off in 3 months. With WARN act notices, employees are supposed to keep working and expected not to mess up anything, and if they quit or sabatoge, they can be fired and lose severance and pay.