Posted on 11/18/2022 6:06:36 AM PST by Enlightened1
Elon fired 99.4% of twitter staff and the site is still running so far.
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1593598019827646464
BREAKING:
Musk is now running Twitter with less than 50 key employees, down for 7,500 at its peak.
“Everything is normal, we may be profitable soon.” He says.
https://twitter.com/sweatystartup/status/1593399867732332544
Half of the 7,500 people were fired, and they get about 3 months of severance.
If I believe the reporting, about 75% of the remainimg other half quit because they aren't "hard core." Btw, they don't get severance.
That leaves about 900 employees.
If the avg salary at Twit is $150k, that's an annual savings of $980MM. Even removing 3 months of severance (appx $140MM) he's still waaaaay ahead of the game.
“”Now Elon can go back to providing free lunches for everyone””
Hot dog, soda, and a bag of chips, $3.00.
The difference is Elon is killing parasites. 😏
Yeah I’ve been on Tweater suspension since the first Trump campaign.
I wonder if there’s anybody there to process reinstatement requests LOL.
“””Elon fired 99.4% of twitter staff and the site is still running so far.”””
If only Elon Musk had bought the United States Government and done the same.
Now is the time to tweet vaccine, mask and early covid information to county health departments, school boards and city councils.
can’t believe he didn’t the first time!Maybe if you graduate from grammar school you'll learn things aren't that easy in government.
“””Elon fired 99.4% of twitter staff and the site is still running so far.”””
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If only Elon Musk had bought the United States Government and done the same.
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I nominate this for post of the day
Elon has taken the Swamp Draining 101 course.
its like a good colon cleanse.......
Well I’m sure it’s not 99% fired...
But the actual, Keep the code running staff, certainly is only a small number (relatively) of the 7500 they had.
The question of how many to just do that, is a function of how robust the code base is... I suspect, though I have no personal experience in Twitter to back it up, that Twitter’s code quality is likely not the strongest. I know Elon is under no obligation to disclose, but I do hope he does disclose the findings that the folks he brought in from Tesla to examine the code provide him.
The more brittle the code, the more people you need for the care and feeding of the production system to keep it running.
However, it is very difficult for me to figure out how Twitter needed 7500 employees to exist.
Yes, you have HR, you have Marketing, you have sales, Billing, etc.. all the functions that any organization will have that go above keeping the site operational, but 7500?? Hard to see how they needed anywhere near that many to operate effectively, IMHO... and I’ve worked in tech for nearly 30 years now.
I mean for crying out loud Fannie Mae only has about 7700 employees...
he would need to appoint people to the heads of the departments to then fire them. I get that.
But that’s not that hard.
I create solutions for companies, using Excel, VBA and SQL. Not sexy but powerful. They run for years, and I only need to make changes when they change, say, the number or type of sales goals, or they make changes in databases
Clean out the dead weight and start fresh with loyal employees who want to be there and follow your vision. I think he’s got it right.
This is misleading. Elon has about 50 key guys that he relies on. Twitter does not only have 50 people working for them right now.
The numbers seem off. I don’t recall him firing that many.
I was just having fun with the numbers.
Do you run scripts in VBA by enabling macros in Excel?
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