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‘Nature Is Healing’: Elon Musk Responds As Silicon Valley CEOs Follow His Lead And Dismiss Surplus Employees
Daily Wire ^ | December 12, 2022 | By Ben Zeisloft

Posted on 12/12/2022 8:58:42 AM PST by Red Badger

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Layoffs at Meta(FB), Google, HP : GOOD!

Layoffs at Twitter: BAD!

1 posted on 12/12/2022 8:58:42 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

All the layoffs are because the PPA money finally ran out. Biden pushed that out as far as he could so the economy “looked” better than it was for the midterms. Now, he has is corporate cronies are ejecting “excess employees” and dead weight as fast as possible.


2 posted on 12/12/2022 9:01:00 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

That’s a very good observation.


3 posted on 12/12/2022 9:03:30 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

This will snowball into a huge recession, starting in California..................


4 posted on 12/12/2022 9:05:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Imagine all the real estate in S.F. going on the market at once. Reality is about to hurt.


5 posted on 12/12/2022 9:06:43 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Red Badger

Uh, the way it works here in the Silicon Slum is really simple: high valued companies full of coders hire hordes of women to do “admin” work since they would never meet or date them in any environment outside of those walls.

And it’s especially true of the H1B dominated companies. No casper males around, but lotsa blue eyed females attending to the “needs” of brown eyed males from the Indian subcontinent.

A short drive down Amphitheater parkway in Mountain View at lunchtime will demonstrate this rather clearly.


6 posted on 12/12/2022 9:08:01 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Red Badger

Can we put Elon in charge of the US office of personnel?? If they removed half of the workforce, productivity would go up a lot for sure and hopefully a good number of the dem coconspirators would be gone too. He could start by eliminating the dept of education and move toward the original 4 cabinet posts.


7 posted on 12/12/2022 9:09:25 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Maybe some of these companies will learn that having and spending Millions in “diversity and Inclusion” VPs, directors, coordinators, staffers does NOT actually help the bottom line?


8 posted on 12/12/2022 9:10:24 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: Red Badger

This is a direct result of the normalization of interest rates.

The free money era bankrolled all of this leftist nonsense.


9 posted on 12/12/2022 9:10:39 AM PST by Freest Republican
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You don’t really think the 7500 laid off “employees’ who spent their days in the yoga studio and petting their emotional support animals were ACTUALLY running Twitter, do you?

It becomes more evident day by day that this was a DHS-FBI-CIA combine, with international connections, to control and then direct the US political conversation, first to get rid of Trump, but more importantly to prevent the emergence of a broad nationalist movement. The 7500 laid off employees were window dressing.

They didn’t just do it here. They clearly stacked the deck in Brazil, and there is much, much more to be learned before they somehow immobilize Musk. who has kept his power level very well hidden.


10 posted on 12/12/2022 9:10:58 AM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

They’ve been living large in silicon valley for a couple of decades now, long before PPA. The technerds had them convinced that they were all indispensable and deserved special perks. Musk is proving that’s far from the truth.

Webdev kids fresh out of college have had entry level pay near six digits or even into six digits depending on their area of expertise. Even without a degree, someone who can code can make $80k. They have coding boot camps that are a few months long.


11 posted on 12/12/2022 9:13:23 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Freest Republican

I am betting that the ‘real’ profits of the companies that have no real product, are significantly lower that they purport to be.

We may see the simultaneous scrambling of investors to divest themselves before the fall.................


12 posted on 12/12/2022 9:16:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Regulator

“A short drive down Amphitheater parkway in Mountain View at lunchtime will demonstrate this rather clearly.”

Now for a total non-sequitur: We lived in Mountain View (our oldest son was born there) in the early ‘70s. Wife even worked at Intel while we were there. I was stationed at NAS Moffett Field. Haven’t been back there since about 1975. I guess it’s all changed. We loved the place.


13 posted on 12/12/2022 9:18:42 AM PST by Afterguard
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To: Jim Noble

Imagine going from the six figure salary and perks galore at these Silicon Sandcastles to the EBT level of the unemployment lines with the Great Unwashed.................


14 posted on 12/12/2022 9:19:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Mouton
Can we put Elon in charge of the US office of personnel??

Hell, let's just make him Preezy & Rock 'n Roll!!

15 posted on 12/12/2022 9:20:13 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Regulator

Just following Kamalala’s lead..............


16 posted on 12/12/2022 9:20:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Even before Covid, some of the people running high-tech firms feel that they can run both a profitable company as well as serve a left-wing agenda. I remember a local news story about an executive wanting to send a message about minimum wage (before Covid). He raised wages of his lower-income employees to a minimum of $70,000/year. But a few years later (still before Covid), his company started to have financial problems.


17 posted on 12/12/2022 9:21:29 AM PST by convoter2016
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He cited an email from a venture-funded manager dismissing employees and explaining that only top performers would be permitted to keep their posts

"Second prize is a set of steak knives."

18 posted on 12/12/2022 9:22:20 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: convoter2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Payments


19 posted on 12/12/2022 9:24:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Imagine how many government employees could be fired without anyone noticing.


20 posted on 12/12/2022 9:24:55 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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