Rules for thee not for me.
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The only thing worse than having to go to the office to watch a video of Elon, is watching him in person
Yeah then you might get a whiff of his musk
This just in, Elon bans getting high at work
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What a little piss baby
Why would anyone want to work for such a tool bag?
No one wants to work for him. He's just holding visa workers hostage
I wonder how many of those are still the case now? When he first took over, that was absolutely huge deal, since it's extremely difficult to find another job as a visa worker. But it's not impossible and Twitter employees would have very strong resumes. It's been so long that I suspect many of those who wanted to leave could have found another company willing to sponsor by now.
There's definitely Musk fanboys in the company. There's no shortage of people, especially the "tech bro" type, who somehow still adore Musk.
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I work in manufacturing in the bay area. We hire so many people who are ex-tesla workers. Anyone enchanted by Elon quickly loses their gusto for the job after working there. I've heard some horror stories about how they treat their technicians
I know some technicians that are getting interview requests from Tesla, do you have any horror stories I can pass along?
You can't just tease us like that😡
Money. I had some friends at Tesla early on and became millionaires from the stock options.
Twitter. No idea why anyone is left.
Sabotage from the inside. Like the guy that architected the “Death Star”
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My boss recently did the same because he “accidentally” schedule his vacation at the same time of our yearly goal setting meeting. Lol.
But fuck me for buying plane tickets for my vacation 6 months in advance when they were on sale and I didn’t have the days approved off. $300 wasted and a giant fuck you a year later. 👍
That's the thing though. When we schedule those days off, it is more of a friendly notice than a request. I am going, you can't stop me. If you would rather have to replace an employee and retrain them, be my guest. Its not worth it for them unless you do something easily replaceable.
Exactly! It is not a Time Off Request. It is a Time Off NOTIFICATION.
Yeah. As a manager, I'm often surprised that team members who report to me don't actually realize this.
Actual conversation I've had:
"Thanks for letting me know your time off plans. I have to cover this logistic, but we will work around it."
"I mean, I can change it if it's too much trouble."
"How would your spouse feel about that?"
"Pissed."
"And if your spouse wanted you to change jobs, how long would that take?
"Oh."
(Oh meaning - At most, four weeks in an average market for their skillset, more like 3 months in the current unprecedentedly slow market. Either way, it's hell for me covering their lost expertise and then training their replacement.)
"Yeah. Thanks for letting me know. We will make it work. Tell your spouse I said 'Hi' and 'thanks' for the early heads up."
Yeah I wish more people would realize this. If a business can't afford to give you vacation time, they are even less able to afford losing that employee entirely.
And if push comes to shove, you don't quit and go on vacation anyways. You go on vacation anyways and let them fire you when you get back if that's what they're inclined to do about it.
You are completely misrepresenting the power dynamic between employer and employee. The entire reason unions exist is to attempt to correct that power imbalance.
I agree and disagree. For the average low paying job that doesn't require any skill or knowledge, a union is the only arguing power you have. However, if you are hard to replace because of skill/knowledge and you know it, the power balances back. You have the power to say no without consequences.
Obviously don't push it to where the cost of replacing you is worth it for your employer, but you have more power than most realize. Making yourself invaluable only increases your say in how things go. So getting the time you requested off is certainly doable.
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What a punk ass bitch.
That's some real "I'm a big dick" energy
At this point I'm only surprised about the picture. I've seen photoes of Twitter logo&name being demontaged from their headquarter a year ago, but then I've seen a lot of images of X physically installed somewhere, like this one. Are they real? It looks so, so bad.
Yes, it's real. Originally it lit up so brightly at night that neighbors couldn't sleep and they got the cops involved.
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Isn't this the roof of the headquarters? It's always looked like a couple of guys found some metal and bolted it together.
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Imagine future pirates digging there to find something valuable
I feel sorry for the pirates.
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I feel for those poor bastards whose work visas are tired to that site.
It's basically the story for most VP+ level execs at big tech companies. All parroting RTO rules, while on video in their home office, or from an office that isn't assigned to them...
I'm sure Xwitter pays well but I am surprised that the employees stick around due to all Musk has done to destroy the company.
Yeah. There's some speculation that most of those who stayed are probably stuck due to life circumstances like visa sponsorship.
Edit: I imagine they're not staying for the stock options, at this point, in any case!
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There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground.
I disagree. There is much about it that is very surprising, which is why we're still talking about it. Maybe he meant "There's very little that people should be surprised about, because this shit has been going on for a year now, and it just keeps getting dumber and dumber."
which Yaccarino tweeted about on Wednesday.
Are we still calling it that? Wouldn't she have Xed it?
Xcreted
You Xit it.
Popped that xitter
It's crazy that they had a brand so strong that the name of the company is the word for the thing that the company does and this clown decided to change it.
It would be like Kleenex or Band-Aid changing their name.
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if that big dumb annoying "x" at the top of the building is there illegally
HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING would the law actually prosecute anyone for trying to remove it without their consent?
i mean... it'd be tricky to get rid of that thing without employing dangerous tools. it's not like anyone would condone dropping thermite or munitions on it from a drone... and you probably can't fit power tools on a drone or exert enough force with a drone for those power tools to be effective.
but still, just as a thought experiment, how might one go about removing an unsanctioned structural eyesore from a building, as a "public service"?
Some BBs could probably smash enough of the lights in it from a distance?
Or maybe paintballs to make it green
ooh i like that
i bet a drone could carry an airbrush actually
fly right up and dye the bulbs trans flag colors X3
I can't imagine that Yaccarino will ever have a high-positioned post after this. She championed a shitshow. She didn't get out when it was obvious that it was tanking. No one will trust her again.
Then again, these types tend to bounce around from plane crash to plane crash…
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