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Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted
The Verge ^ | 11.4.2022 | Alex Heath

Posted on 11/04/2022 12:39:26 PM PDT by libh8er

Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week, The Verge has learned.

The areas of Twitter impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include its product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even certain core engineering teams, according to tweets by laid-off employees and people familiar with the matter. More company leaders, including Arnaud Weber, VP of consumer product engineering, and Tony Haile, a senior director of product overseeing Twitter’s work with news publishers, have also been laid off following Musk’s firings of Twitter’s senior leadership last week.

Given the sweeping nature of Musk’s layoffs and his mandate to cut costs in areas like cloud hosting, employees who remain at Twitter told The Verge that they expect the company to have a hard time maintaining critical infrastructure in the short term. “Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee who requested anonymity to speak without the company’s permission, while another called management’s layoff process “an absolute shit show.”

Musk’s cuts began Thursday evening, shortly after an unsigned memo was sent internally confirming the company would “go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce.” Impacted employees quickly realized they were locked out of their work accounts well before they were notified of their job status by another unsigned email titled “Your Role at Twitter.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; learntomine; musk; pinkslips; theavenger; twitter; yourefired
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To: struggle

“90% of Twitter Asia gone
85% of Twitter India gone

Chinese Twitter censorship team gone”

Good, most are no doubt mindless socialist, at best.


61 posted on 11/04/2022 1:02:51 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: butlerweave

“How does he know who he’s laying off when they never show up to work ? LOL”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Wasn’t it Musk who told the Tesla employees that they can work from home for somebody else?


62 posted on 11/04/2022 1:03:13 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: libh8er
Hey Elon, you need to terminate all contacts with the far left extremists at ADL and NAACP.


63 posted on 11/04/2022 1:05:12 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: libh8er

I got permanently suspended from Twitter yesterday. I have appealed the suspension, but I guess I can’t expect a response any time soon. ;-)


64 posted on 11/04/2022 1:06:33 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: butlerweave

Matt Walsh went through the “Day in a Life of a Twitter Employee” video and was pointing out the ping pong tables, meditation rooms, etc. He finally agreed he’s leave them and whoever used them would be the first to go.


65 posted on 11/04/2022 1:07:13 PM PDT by mykroar (Democrats support both types of allowed thought: Marxist and Leninist.)
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To: libh8er
“Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee who requested anonymity to speak without the company’s permission, while another called management’s layoff process “an absolute shit show.”

Well, you have a decision to make Mr.or Ms. Twitter-employee. You either get with the new program or hit the bricks before they find out you're sharing inside company information and fire your butt.

66 posted on 11/04/2022 1:08:12 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: struggle

So, those were the bots?


67 posted on 11/04/2022 1:09:23 PM PDT by Glenmore
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To: libh8er

Surprise!!


68 posted on 11/04/2022 1:09:55 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: libh8er
...defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week...

So that's what they're calling censorship these days. Good to know.

If I see one more proggie whine about the Twitter team being eviscerated I'll...I'll...I'll hurt my face grinning.

69 posted on 11/04/2022 1:10:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: libh8er

This is what I wanted President Trump to do with the federal govt. when he took office.


70 posted on 11/04/2022 1:11:18 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: libh8er
How did we ever survive the election of 1800 when Vice President John Adams was called a hermaphrodite and accused of using the navy to smuggle his mistress from Europe and Thomas Jefferson was the first called an atheist? ?

Twitter would have banned all Adams ads and covered up Jefferson's slaves.

-PJ

71 posted on 11/04/2022 1:11:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: libh8er

The Verge sounds sad.
I’m elated.


72 posted on 11/04/2022 1:11:43 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: SmokingJoe

Fun factoid. China has a large effort to control negative Social Media comments about them worldwide. Twitter assisted them in this effort.


73 posted on 11/04/2022 1:12:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: libh8er

Enjoy the suck you twatty beetchies


74 posted on 11/04/2022 1:16:09 PM PDT by The Louiswu (The times, they are a changing. )
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To: Eccl 10:2

“This is what Trump needs to do to the federal government when he’s re-elected in 2024.

“Day One Blitzkrieg, top down. Hit them before they can organize. F playing by their rules”

Surprisingly Fed Gubmint grew under Trump, BUT many people for one reason or another left the Dept. of the Interior, Education, EPA and eight other Agencies, supposedly natural attrition. These were offset by growth in VA, Defense and Homeland Security = Border Patrol.


75 posted on 11/04/2022 1:16:30 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: libh8er

Gutted but in a good way. 😉


76 posted on 11/04/2022 1:16:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: libh8er
whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week


77 posted on 11/04/2022 1:17:09 PM PDT by Jim Noble (And manly hearts to guard the fair)
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To: libh8er

78 posted on 11/04/2022 1:17:25 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SmokingJoe

It is, but only to chosen party members.


79 posted on 11/04/2022 1:17:44 PM PDT by struggle
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To: libh8er

This is so awesome, I must say.


80 posted on 11/04/2022 1:19:34 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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