About a year ago my employer sent out an email about a reorganization at the top with a new CEO and a couple others.
I read the email, shrugged and went back to work.
I don’t interact with the CEO that much but have found him to be a great guy.
Actually, the first time we met was at a company lunch. My job is mid-level but fairly high profile so I’m pretty well known. As he was walking by, he stuck out his hand and said “Oh, you’re cyclotic.”
I said something like, “well, that can be taken several ways.”
Lots of real workers out there to pick from
This just reminds me that I am happy I grew up before everyone had a video camera. I have done some stupid things in my life and fortunately they did not leave a scar or a video record.
As Forest Gump would say, “stupid is as stupid does”
It’s going to be interesting how the autopsy of Twitter takes place, and what it reveals.
A worldwide entity with the principal goal of influencing elections in the US, I suspect.
I read the Irish and British papers daily. THOUSANDS of Twitter employees in those countries were laid off, “threatening to disrupt Twitter’s vital role in keeping US elections free”.
OK. What do a bunch of Paddies and Poms know about US elections, and which Americans should be allowed to say what?
We have yet to hear about Twitter Australia, Twitter NZ, Twitter Canada, etc - but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if tens of thousands of “employees” with their support animals, their gyms, and their yoga studios actually did nothing at all, while the CIA and whoever else was running the place from suburban DC were “fortifying” our elections.
I’m not sure if these people who are quitting are getting some type of exit package (many months of pay maybe?).
But the reality sets in when that lump sum payment is a week or two away from being depleted -and- you are now competing for a new position at other companies, against your former workmates and many others. Panic will ensue as their previous lifestyle become unsupportable and sacrifices need to be made.
That usually causes people to “grow up” fast.
The other thing that might happen with these folks is that they my try to regroup and start their own social media business ... primarily for the Woke crowd, which would compete against Twitter ... and would probably be heavily funded by leftist organizations. I could see this happening sometime next year.
I have no sympathy.
The prospect of less content moderation on Twitter has unnerved advertisers, The Wall Street Journal reported.
How many of these thousands will find another $100,000 job to start with and let them wreck a company to boot?