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stumbled across a great take on layoffs the other day...
the average company wont recognize the need for layoffs for 3-6 months after a market downturn demands them, and then will take another 3-6 months to actually execute the layoffs responsibly. at which point they have an average of 30-90 days before they need to rehire/train into those positions because market conditions have returned to normal.
Twitter was super bloated, and the work culture there was infamously lax and overcompensated.
The service was both failing to convert popularity into sales (this has been an issue for its entire 16+ year existence), and spending way too much on employees they didn't need.
Elon is correct to turn the workforce lean and efficient. He was incorrect in the way he went about it. As I said, too many changes, too quickly. Furthermore, demanding tons of extra hours out of existing employees, without compensating them further, is a huge mistake -- aside from a time when there's a huge glut of extra tech workers, such as the dotcom bust years of the early 2000s. But right now that was an incorrect demand, at least at this stage of the game.
Elon needed to treat Twitter like becoming the new parent of an unruly child. You do need to set certain important rules and guidelines down immediately, but you also need to hold back with some of the planned changes, or otherwise the kid will just rebel and you won't get anywhere.
Elon also had a big advantage in that some of the extarneous employees were going to take care of themselves, given his change in policies/politics. A lot of the wokes were going to bounce anyway, now that free speech was becoming a thing there. That not only automatically downsizes for you, but it also gets rid of the loudest and most troublesome of employees without having to fire them and risk lawsuits.
I'm also not sure why he picked on the blue checkmarks first. There's no way that their $96/year was going to constitute a major revenue stream for a company he bought for $44b, so why jump on that like it was the most important issue facing Twitter? Some of the blue checkmark people are important to getting eyeballs on the site, so you really don't want to alienate them, anyway.
If you’re wondering who still actually runs twitter…
Just to be clear for the stupid people; freedom of speech is most definitely freedom of reach.
Spoken like an entitled child. She doesn’t want to go into the law, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
the entire twitter payroll department has taken the severance package.
Cars that the GM service dept keeps runningQuote:
Originally Posted by dwai
Elon fired the VP of Ad Sales because she didn't want Trump back on the platform. Go woke and go broke.
Elon is Jewish. It doesn't surprise me that his tweets mimic those of the ADL. Ye was right.Quote:
Originally Posted by devideeIf you’re wondering who still actually runs twitter…
Just to be clear for the stupid people; freedom of speech is most definitely freedom of reach.
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Originally Posted by Small_Banana
Musk bringing back the God King.
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Originally Posted by devidee
Ironically, Musk has probably accelerated a need for more employees by reinstating Trump. Although I obviously believe the far left goes way too far in their censorship campaigns, and their motives are very much unpure; but reinstating Trump will obviously create a lot more work to contain the circus that comes with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Obviously this is going to reinvigorate activity on the platform which in theory is good for business. But it may also result in a further advertiser exodus that could be bad for the bottom line.
The trump musk thing is definitely interesting.
I don't think Musk gives a fuck except that he wants hype building for twitter. Yet Trump has made it clear he;s not coming back. So now we have a dormant trump account whos most recent tweets are all about January 6th and refusing to attend inauguration.
Before Musk:
After Musk:
bonus jew meme
Literally a pic of a bunch of guys that have never been laid. Elon excepted.Quote:
Originally Posted by devideeAfter Musk:
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Originally Posted by BetCheckBet
Look if Elon Musk buys Truth Social with a huge pile of thoroughly laundered dollars delivered directly from Saudi investors that coincidentally are all on the board of Jared's investment fund, what can I say, the people have spoken.
Regarding those tweets dwai posted.
BrooklynDad_Defiant is a DNC operative. He and "JoJoFromJerz" are paid to tweet left wing propaganda, both taking on a brusque, straightforward, east coast tone which is meant to resonate with both moderates and the Democratic base. I am not sure if they were initially recruited for this, or if they were just co-opted by the DNC after tweeting political stuff which was getting engagement, but these two are owned by the DNC now. If you wonder why they have so much time to spend on social media, now you know.
David Leavitt is a Twitter troll. He was the "1 cent toothbrush guy" from January 2020, who supposedly called the police on "Target Tori" for not selling a toothbrush to him for 1 penny, after it was accidentally listed that way. In reality, this was a bit -- one which actually fooled me at first, but eventually became clear wasn't real. He's a Twitter engagement troll who tweets out intentionally ridiculous things so he will get shares. While he's legitimately left wing and hates Trump, his series of tweets about Elon were just theater. Also, "Target Tori", the supposed victim of his horrible customer act, was in on the whole thing. This was why she never collected the $35k or so which was raised for her on Gofundme, by well-meaning but gullible people.
also heard Brooklyn dad is defiantly not paying his child support, like a typical n-word democratQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Truer words have never been spoken. Trump is brutal in his assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by BetCheckBet
I’ve never understood why a guy (Elon) who has suckled on the gubmint teat is so infatuated with Trump. Trump would have never gone along with giving taxpayer funds to Elon.
The answer is - and I’m 99% sure I’m right - Elon wants to be worshipped as the same bold iconoclast the way Trump was.
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Originally Posted by SanlmarTruer words have never been spoken. Trump is brutal in his assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by BetCheckBet
I’ve never understood why a guy (Elon) who has suckled on the gubmint teat is so infatuated with Trump. Trump would have never gone along with giving taxpayer funds to Elon.
The answer is - and I’m 99% sure I’m right - Elon wants to be worshipped as the same bold iconoclast the way Trump was.
they have similar personality disorders but also there was a text message exchange that came up with the elon/twitter discovery motions where either peter thiel or stephen miller possibly (we dont know) basically said 'buy twitter, deplatform the blue check liberals, blame it on the platform, then bring back trump and turn it into a conservative town square'. and you know, here we are.
the fact that saudi money is bankrolling all this is only starting to gain the attention it deserves, considering where there fingers have been on our political scales of late.
Oh look at this conspiracy theorist just ranting incoherently. Text messages....or something all right sure there pal, whatever you say. Bet there was some crazy laptop that got dropped off in a repair shop or something to go along with it.......suuuure it was. Like anyone would believe that shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatineQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
they have similar personality disorders but also there was a text message exchange that came up with the elon/twitter discovery motions where either peter thiel or stephen miller possibly (we dont know) basically said 'buy twitter, deplatform the blue check liberals, blame it on the platform, then bring back trump and turn it into a conservative town square'. and you know, here we are.
the fact that saudi money is bankrolling all this is only starting to gain the attention it deserves, considering where there fingers have been on our political scales of late.
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Originally Posted by NaturalBornHustlerOh look at this conspiracy theorist just ranting incoherently. Text messages....or something all right sure there pal, whatever you say. Bet there was some crazy laptop that got dropped off in a repair shop or something to go along with it.......suuuure it was. Like anyone would believe that shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
i cant tell if youre being sarcastic or not... they are evidence in the lawsuit between twitter and elon... like elon's lawyers literally signed off on them being admitted.
MARGE is back boys!!!
Remember when the Big Brains said that twitter growth would completely halt and the app would cease to work at all. And then the exact opposite happened.
I memba.
And Biden is in on it. He just granted immunity to the saudi prince.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
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Originally Posted by devidee
It's cute that you think you can downsize a company like Twitter 90% and not see an impact on site performance and reliability. But lets check back in a few months, shall we?
Elon got rid of all the snowflakes by triggering them. He will hire more people if he needs them.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdaewooQuote:
Originally Posted by devidee
It's cute that you think you can downsize a company like Twitter 90% and not see an impact on site performance and reliability. But lets check back in a few months, shall we?
You could park this in SBF -FTX thread or Elon Musk Twitter thread or Bitcoin DD thread. It’s all the same circus.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatineQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
they have similar personality disorders but also there was a text message exchange that came up with the elon/twitter discovery motions where either peter thiel or stephen miller possibly (we dont know) basically said 'buy twitter, deplatform the blue check liberals, blame it on the platform, then bring back trump and turn it into a conservative town square'. and you know, here we are.
the fact that saudi money is bankrolling all this is only starting to gain the attention it deserves, considering where there fingers have been on our political scales of late.
Elon does this every night like he has nothing else to do. He has a disorder for sure. He can’t help himself. Yammering on about Doge coin when I tuned in.
Elon claims here that TSLA, SpaceX and himself still hold BTC (condolences on the loss). He says TSLA not accepting BTC cause he objects to the ESG BTC mining conflict and needs to be consistent with Tesla’s (fraudulent) green mission.
Kathy Wood from ARK which makes us all laugh. I’m as interested in her takes as I am her good pal, Jim Cramer. Jack Dorsey and some other nerd podcaster.
They’ll be at it for hours
Elon might be pushing too hard too fast. He is attacking Apple's 30% tax on all payments made within Apps on their devices. He is disrupting the States ability to narrative control by allowing dissidents back on the site. He has pissed off the ADL, taking away their ability to ban accounts that criticize Israel or individual Jews under the false pretense that it is antisemitism. He is threatening competition with YouTube by planning direct competition with higher content provider payments. Legacy media are losing their shit with their loss of legitimacy badges that also prioritized their messaging over non blue check plebs. Even the Troon activists have been axed (once again)
All these entities have political power and they will respond with lawsuits, collusion, legislation, SEC nonsense, smear campaigns and more. I expect they will blame some real life mass shooting on him and use the Alex Jones playbook to try and take him out through banning Twitter from the AppStores and kangeroo court judgments. It's going to get messy and its awesome.
Truth Social is a fail site. There is not enough room for 2 twitters. Trump will be back on Twitter if he gets the 2024 nominee. He will have no choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine