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EXCERPT: How Elon Musk’s Twitter Ultimatum Brought Employees to Their Breaking Point: “People Were Emotionally a Wreck”
Vanity Fair ^ | FEBRUARY 6, 2024 | BY ZOË SCHIFFER

Posted on 02/07/2024 6:10:50 AM PST by Red Badger

Edited on 02/07/2024 7:00:28 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The targeted firings of talented engineers tanked employee morale. Randall Lin worried the dour mood would impact people’s work. He decided to fly to New York with his long-distance girlfriend, Alex, an OnlyFans star who lived in the Midwest, to check on two of his colleagues in person. “People were emotionally a wreck,” Lin said. He paid for the flight and hotel himself.


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1 posted on 02/07/2024 6:10:50 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Boo frickin’ hoo. Give these people a quarter.


2 posted on 02/07/2024 6:13:43 AM PST by dforest
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To: Red Badger

He’s going to run it like SpaceX. He burns through people, uses them up and replaces them with new. I’ve been to a place where the SpaceX people in Texas hang out, there are no old people, they are all young.


3 posted on 02/07/2024 6:14:01 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Red Badger

“Elon broke me.”


4 posted on 02/07/2024 6:14:09 AM PST by xoxox
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To: Red Badger

I remember reading how “employees” would show up whenever, go have a workout, a nap, then free steak dinners. Maybe do some “work”. The people fired by Musk were deadbeats. Heaven forbid the boss expect someone to actually work.

Zero sympathy for Twitter employees.


5 posted on 02/07/2024 6:15:14 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Red Badger
When Elon Musk took over, Twitter was a leftist sewer that needed to be drained and cleaned. I'm sure there were a lot of snowflakes who were emotionally damaged but hey...they chose their course. Musk changed the direction and mission of that company as was his right to do so. Get with the program or get out. Simple. I work in corporate and wouldn't expert my company to take my feelings into consideration when they were working on a new direction for the company.

Just my humble opinion.

6 posted on 02/07/2024 6:19:23 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: Red Badger

“her forthcoming book”

Yeah, I stopped right there.


7 posted on 02/07/2024 6:20:56 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: dforest

Unless you have an employment contract, every day, in fact, could be “your last.”


8 posted on 02/07/2024 6:21:32 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Red Badger

“fly to New York with his long-distance girlfriend, Alex, an OnlyFans star “

Wonder how that’s working out?


9 posted on 02/07/2024 6:23:15 AM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.Newark is 46% black)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I have been thru three buyouts at three different companies.

All were the same.

The new owners came in and essentially fired all the older dead wood employees. Installed their new management and in three months it was all over....................


10 posted on 02/07/2024 6:23:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Oddly not a word in the article about the broken morale of the many, many more people seeing a stolen election, the installation of a Marxist government, and the steadfast internal destruction of America.


11 posted on 02/07/2024 6:24:45 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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“her forthcoming book” yeah, I stopped right there.

I didn't. Its a story of great consequence for those of us in the technology intersecting with society and national security business. $15 bucks on Kindle is cheap. Since the backers of the Deep State are not going to buy 5Million copies an dump them into the Harlem River, she is not going to get rich off this book.

12 posted on 02/07/2024 6:26:40 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Red Badger

Blah blah blah blah blah. Far from being a “sinking ship”, Twitter has continued to operate just fine under Elon after firing 80% of the employees.

When you can get rid of 4 out of 5 people on the payroll and still operate without any major breakdowns, that tells you your headcount was grossly inflated and you had a lot of unproductive employees.


13 posted on 02/07/2024 6:28:34 AM PST by FLT-bird
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The author, all you need to know:

“Zoe Schiffer joined Berkeleyside in 2018 as the Membership Marketing Manager. Previously, she worked as a writer at Uber and an intern for Nancy Pelosi. She is also a contributing author at The Huffington Post and publishes a quarterly poetry zine. Zoe is an alumna of UC Berkeley, and a soon-to-be graduate student at Stanford journalism.”

https://www.berkeleyside.org/author/zoe-schiffer


14 posted on 02/07/2024 6:31:21 AM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.Newark is 46% black)
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To: dynachrome

It’s Vanity Fair.

What were you expecting?

Michelle Malkin?..........................


15 posted on 02/07/2024 6:36:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, Vanity Fair is like Pravda under Stalin.


16 posted on 02/07/2024 6:40:12 AM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.Newark is 46% black)
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To: Red Badger

Arriving at Twitter the day after Elon arrived, I went to our floor’s free food area for my custom fruit smoothie enhanced with vitamins and also my special latte made with coffee beans flown in from Bora Bora this morning. Note to self, update Twitter’s procurement system for more beans tomorrow! Where was I? Oh yea, off to my morning’s free massage and sauna which I booked with the Twitter employee app just before it went to bed last night. After my session, I checked my email to discover that Elon was in the building and making life difficult for the few employees actually came to work. Oh look it’s time for my lunch! Will blog later after lunch, TaTa……


17 posted on 02/07/2024 6:40:16 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Red Badger

Translation: Work is hard and the twits never had to work before.


18 posted on 02/07/2024 6:40:51 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Red Badger

Aw.


19 posted on 02/07/2024 6:41:50 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Red Badger

Techies seem prone to being “wrecks”. I’ve noticed it here.


20 posted on 02/07/2024 6:47:10 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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