Elon Musk

charlie warzel at the atlantic (of all places lol) is covering this story p well. this (from april) seems prescient

Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson! pic.twitter.com/LEhXV95Njj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2022

28th October:

Ligma Johnson had it coming 🍆 💦 pic.twitter.com/CgjrOV5eM2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

Lots of Elon stans claiming this is top level trolling by Musk (re Ligma meme) and that the two were never employees ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good to see he's got time for this whilst Twitter literally falls apart around him

Why has he emojied an ejaculation there?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/038/139/wewew.PNG

It does track that he shows more interest in annoying fake employees than real ones.

wld be funny if he had a heart attack and died

Elon Musk has given Twitter staff 2 days to commit to ‘extremely hardcore’ work culture or lose their jobs

‘extremely hardcore’ = ‘long hours at high intensity’

People need to click "yes" in online form by 5pm ET today or leave https://t.co/PTTj2JRHKc

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 16, 2022

what a complete fucking spoon

screencapping storing here

https://i.imgur.com/OF8a1nt.png

if u click anything at all u end up downloading malware tho it's how he get u xp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DS1ffGdVMAANdBm?format=jpg&name=medium

i do like mark s's link above, the management-style summary seems to slide things together pretty well.

irl lol at coinbase's “'rate your coworker' real-time feedback system." i mean, if i rated my co-workers (whom i generally like!) in real-time

Here’s the text of the email Musk sent to Twitter staff overnight.

Those who don’t commit to being “extremely hardcore” by 5pm ET today must leave the company. ‼️

Story: https://t.co/expt0d63dH pic.twitter.com/C8VDjRBvk1

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) November 16, 2022

He fundamentally doesn't understand what the company is

Elon Musk should just go extra super extremely hardcore himself to make up for all the slackers. Get that guy in a room with a computer, lock the door, and wait for the magic to happen.

He fundamentally doesn't understand what the a company is

l' affaire c'est moi

OnlySycophants

I'm addicted to the rubber-necking but man, I'm so tired of seeing his big stupid head, is there even *one* pic on the whole net where he looks normal, he's like some sort of man-fish hybrid. I expect to see terrible gasping, slobbering gills all down his neck.

I cannot imagine (particularly in this job market) a job that I valued so much but had no actual stake in where I receive that message and say anything other than 'thanx 4 the three months severance bruh'

there are people for whom its harder to quit for instance those on work visas, and theres those who see this as an opportunity for advancement which it certainly is, but yeah all things being equal id be so out of there

Twitter data suggests most of the people buying Twitter Blue are promoting three things: right wing politics, cryptocurrency, and porn. https://t.co/yiXnqX1gw8

— Adam Smith (@adamndsmith) November 16, 2022

he also made some vague promise about huge stock grants for high performers for whatever thats worth

I'll be really disappointed in him if he doesn't bring a giant fork prop into the Twitter lobby today.

but anyway tech workers and all workers should unionize

he also made some vague promise about huge stock grants for high performers for whatever thats worth

Yeah, that's what I want — stock in Twitter. (Or Tesla, for that matter.)

what twitter data? from ppl txting the phone# in yr bio? this is a wrd data tecnik

as someone currently unemployed in the tech industry in the bay area, proclamations like Musks kind of terrify me because I hate to think of other companies following suit, even in small ways; after the blunted attempts at compassion and empathy in the workplace during COVID (which IME weren't even followed very well, at least not where I worked), I can see more companies saying 'fuck it.' that said, this turn is basically setting himself up for a raft of discrimination lawsuits in CA so I expect him to cut costs by shifting all engineering to someplace with zero worker protections. Maybe Dubai.

but anyway tech workers and all workers should unionize

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Wonder what wildcat strike actions would look like here.

he also made some vague promise about huge stock grants for high performers for whatever thats worth

'he also made some vague promise about huge stock grants for high performers for whatever thats worth'

it's a private company, there is no stock

sure there is

there is the potential for there to be stock, you just won’t be able to do anything with it until elon takes twitter public again.

Private companies, if they are corporations, do issue stock. It's just not traded on a public exchange.

sometimes you can sell private stock or whatever its called

Sure, you can sell it unless a shareholder agreement restricts its sale, and if you can find a buyer. Or, you can cash in when the company sells or goes public.

if i had twitter stock i would give some to everyone who liked my tweets, there should be a button for that

the rule around this is complicated but basically you can’t sell it for a year after you get it and if you can find a buyer they will be under similar restrictions. there is a pretty big “liquidity discount” vis a vid public stock.

but there are services that will try to match you with a buyer if you own private stock. https://forgeglobal.com/buying-or-selling-private-company-shares/

Musk email incoming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWcfmkslT48

musk took down that elephant thing hardcore

Good thread on what capitalists like Musk could be attempting in the tech workplace

It's...funny? I guess? to see a capitalist bullish enough to do to tech infrastructure what they've already done to every other kind of infrastructure. For a while the techies had the clout and mystique to hold off the barbarians, but looks like here they fucking come https://t.co/wDRldPh4jO

— a furred tail upon nothingness (@dynamic_proxy) November 14, 2022

The worry that this is part of a new approach that will spread across the tech industry seems misplaced because it is clear he doesn't know what he's doing, and the result will be wrecking a popular brand and losing lots of money. Not really sure what the argument would be to copy this disaster.

i feel like twitter itself has to stay up in some useable form for it to function as both model and platform on which the model is being successfully pushed

but i am not a coder(which a furred tail very much is)

xyz, do you have any thoughts from within yr own experience and world (less as twitter's biggest fan and as more bulletins from the class-war front in yr own territory)

idk I feel like that vulture capitalist approach only really works with companies or sectors in decline, where underlying infrastructure (real estate, supply networks, even just the value of the brand name) is worth more than the business itself. That's mostly not true in tech, which — all the vaporware and starry-eyed bullshit aside — is still full of very profitable companies that make money by making and selling actual goods, either hardware or software.

it hadn't actually struck me until @dynamic_proxy said it out loud but of course (some of) the spiteful glee at twtr ppl being fired is rage against what he calls the "tech-professional class" from other professional layers as technies lose their formerly unbiddable heft

I mean unbiddability survives layoffs, I would jump at the chance to get fired by Twitter or Facebook rn

Sadly I work in the public sector

Elon is currently testifying against a lawsuit that he took way too large a compensation package, this is a long thread but this may even be funnier than the Alex Jones one

Elon: "The consent decree was made under duress. An agreement made under duress, is not valid, as a foundation of law."

"Are you trained as a lawyer?"

"I have some familiarity with the legal system. If you're in enough law suits, you pick up a few things along the way."

/50

— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) November 16, 2022