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She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.
NYT ^ | December 23 2022 | By Katherine Rosman

Posted on 12/24/2022 7:10:12 AM PST by SmokingJoe

Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers.

In the middle of a workday, Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., put her French bulldog, Bosworth, on a leash and walked down a leafy street to a favorite coffee shop.

It seemed like an ordinary November afternoon, or as ordinary as it could be for someone working at Twitter under its mercurial new owner, Elon Musk. Ms. Solomon ordered a latte for herself and a drip coffee with cream for her husband. Then she and Bosworth headed back home.

Sitting at her computer on her living room couch, she tried to check the latest messages on Slack, only to find her account was locked. She then pulled up her work email account, or tried to. Also locked. She logged onto her personal email account and saw something in her inbox from a human resources executive at Twitter.

“Your recent behavior has violated company policy,” the email said, according to Ms. Solomon. She turned to her husband and said, as she recalled in a recent interview, “I guess I don’t work here anymore.”

With that, Ms. Solomon had become part of a small number of media industry employees who lost their jobs this year after using Twitter to take on the institutions where they worked. In Ms. Solomon’s case, she directly challenged her boss in a series of tweets. She said she is not sure whether those tweets caused her to lose her job, or if she was just one of the roughly 3,700 Twitter employees who got the ax in layoffs that began soon after Mr. Musk took ownership of the company in October.

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1 posted on 12/24/2022 7:10:12 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

I can only imagine the “code” of this ‘software engineer’.
And, of course, the NYT - the newspaper of clowns - requires a special type of naivety in order to read the rag.


2 posted on 12/24/2022 7:12:15 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SmokingJoe

“In the middle of the workday”.


3 posted on 12/24/2022 7:12:34 AM PST by Romulus
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To: SmokingJoe

The shape of her head, is weird.


4 posted on 12/24/2022 7:12:50 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Yeah, it’s usually not a good idea to bad-mouth your boss in public. And yes, Twit-Er is very, very public.


5 posted on 12/24/2022 7:13:55 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Been noticing in the last few weeks.

Media has been showing ‘cute’ video clips like they’ve been doing for years and years. Only in the last month have they stopped showing Twitter clips. Replaced them with TikTok clips.

You tell me.


6 posted on 12/24/2022 7:14:48 AM PST by George from New England
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To: SmokingJoe
In Ms. Solomon’s case, she directly challenged her boss in a series of tweets.

That doesn't seem like a very smart thing to do to the guy who signs your paycheck.

7 posted on 12/24/2022 7:16:06 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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To: SmokingJoe

“Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., put her French bulldog, Bosworth, on a leash and walked down a leafy street to a favorite coffee shop”

Boy, talk about perpetuating a stereotype......sheesh.

Maybe she shoulda been working IN AN OFFICE instead of hanging out in a coffee shop.

No work ethic by our youth may end up being a major contributing factor in the collapse of this country. SMH


8 posted on 12/24/2022 7:16:41 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SmokingJoe

arrogant little b...... she loves the limelight...


9 posted on 12/24/2022 7:18:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

You have the right to free speech, but if you publicly badmouth your employer, or champion a cause counter to the employer’s policies, expect blowback.

Which is why I will say things here that I will not say on my LinkedIn account.


10 posted on 12/24/2022 7:19:25 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Sooth2222

“That doesn’t seem like a very smart thing to do to the guy who signs your paycheck”

Entitlement mentality:

The entitlement mentality is defined as a sense of deservingness or being owed a favor when little or nothing has been done to deserve special treatment. It’s the “you owe me” attitude. Entitlement is a narcissistic personality trait”

She got a very important life lesson.....question os, is she smart enough to realize and embrace it.......my money’s on no.


11 posted on 12/24/2022 7:19:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Where do these dumbasses get off on thinking you can challenge or bad mouth your boss with zero consequences?


12 posted on 12/24/2022 7:20:07 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: SmokingJoe

Bari Weiss got shown the door at NYT for less, didn’t she?


13 posted on 12/24/2022 7:20:11 AM PST by sopo
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To: SmokingJoe
she directly challenged her boss in a series of tweets.

Congrats on discovering the meaning of F.A.F.O.

14 posted on 12/24/2022 7:20:39 AM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

A crying shame, entitled millennial loses job for bad mouthing the boss.

Try doing that again at your next job selling shoes at Kohls - you will get fired there too.

I feel sorry for the French bulldog having to live with a creep like her.


15 posted on 12/24/2022 7:20:40 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: SmokingJoe

These young people never learned rule #1...
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you


16 posted on 12/24/2022 7:21:27 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: SmokingJoe

“The Boss is always right.”

Wonder if she will learn this lesson?


17 posted on 12/24/2022 7:22:02 AM PST by Bryan24
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To: George from New England

Because Tic Toc is Communist Red China -SeeEyeHay controlled, as opposed to FIB’s Twitter.


18 posted on 12/24/2022 7:23:01 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: HonkyTonkMan

I had to Google that one.


19 posted on 12/24/2022 7:24:17 AM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Aw! Poor baby! She dun found out how the real world works. Boo-hoo!
You mean you can’t publicly call out and attack your boss, then not stay employed them!?


20 posted on 12/24/2022 7:24:34 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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