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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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To: SaxxonWoods

The Big Bang Theory sitcom was based in reality..................


21 posted on 02/07/2024 6:48:52 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
The billionaire CEO subjected staffers to brutal loyalty and competence tests

Oh! The huge manatee!!

22 posted on 02/07/2024 6:48:55 AM PST by pfflier
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To: pfflier

23 posted on 02/07/2024 6:52:12 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome
Yes, Vanity Fair is like Pravda under Stalin.

And they are raciiissst....Lin spent the week ping-ponging

24 posted on 02/07/2024 6:53:41 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Red Badger
My cup of schadenfreude runneth over.

The company was WAY overstaffed, as witness that it still runs fine with all of then gone.

25 posted on 02/07/2024 6:56:40 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Red Badger

[[“People were emotionally a wreck,”]]

Oh, is that what they are calling pansies these days? “People”?

[[Lin said. He paid for the flight and hotel himself.]]

The horror! All by himself? How did he ever weather the ordeal?


26 posted on 02/07/2024 7:15:58 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Red Badger
Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin is Great! Where’s she been lately?
27 posted on 02/07/2024 7:16:28 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

At Washington Examiner...........

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/?p=2252461


28 posted on 02/07/2024 7:33:06 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

I hope President Trump will follow Elon’s example in January 2025.


29 posted on 02/07/2024 7:44:49 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Red Badger
I have been thru three buyouts at three different companies.

I sold computer systems for 17 companies from 1966 through the early 2000s.

I was fired once, had two companies go belly up, got caught in a buy out twice and the rest of the times quit for what I perceived to be a better opportunity {I was correct 10 times, missed on a couple}.

I made millions {blew a load of cash on greed and stupidity, no regrets} and still have the same Mrs. Alaska after 60+ years so it's all good.

My worries are for my Country but my Faith in God gives me peace, so a company's success or failure is such a small thing, that it's not worth much angst.

Seek peace in God and if you are a non-believer...good luck.

30 posted on 02/07/2024 12:14:02 PM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: dynachrome

Wait...

Aren’t “Only-Fan Stars” emerging porn stars?


31 posted on 02/07/2024 12:14:25 PM PST by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Red Badger
I have been through three as well.

One we were bought for our patients. They ended up firing everyone but the engineers. Not a bad move, they had been slighting R&D for about a half a decade.

The other two were not good. Weirdly it was the same company. Company A bought Company B. I took the buy out and moved to Company C. Company A a few years later bought Company C. I again took the buy out because I knew what was going to happen. When the news came out about ten years later that Company A was going through bankruptcy I had to laugh because I predicted it to my boss. They had brought in a "leadership team" (never a good sign) from a Mega-Corp to try to run a Conglomerate. It was like bringing in the Pope to run the SBC. Not a good move.

32 posted on 02/07/2024 12:25:58 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: USS Alaska

So you spent a lot of money on whiskey and wild women and the rest you just wasted?................


33 posted on 02/07/2024 12:26:44 PM 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

that Musk dint have to rehire/go on a hiring jag was proof those he let go weren’t needed...


34 posted on 02/07/2024 12:49:11 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Red Badger
So you spent a lot of money on whiskey and wild women and the rest you just wasted?

You forgot about gambling, but yeah, you got it mostly correct.

It's like the line in Equalizer 1, "I've done a lot of things that I'm ashamed of...", but it's called life.

35 posted on 02/07/2024 12:53:14 PM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: USS Alaska

“I’ve done a lot of things that I’m ashamed of...”

Me, too.

Thank God I can’t remember most of them!..................


36 posted on 02/07/2024 1:03:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Michelle Malkin is Great! Where’s she been lately?

The Washington Examiner. Her articles are here:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/michelle-malkin/

37 posted on 02/07/2024 4:08:44 PM PST by TChad
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To: Red Badger
Yeah, I remember him expecting them to work a full schedule, and maybe some overtime. Monster!


38 posted on 02/07/2024 5:01:07 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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