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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Sounds like the people who refused to take an experimental shot.
The picture has been stretched horizontally. Notice the shape of the light bulb in the upper right corner of the picture. You might have to zoom in a bit to see its shape clearly.
She will be alright, there are lots of 200K jobs available.
Never trust a woman with blue hair. Or green, purple, cherry-red, or any other hair color that does not occur in nature.
I got as far as “her French bulldog, Bosworth” ...
She can afford to be idealistic mouthy and reckless in her career, because she has a husband who can support her. And she knows it.
I’m more worried about the dog!
These people expect to call out their employer publicly and expect nothing to happen?
Are they all mad?
She lacks two things.
Common sense.
Manners.
Enjoy your unemployment.
These young people never learned rule #1...
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
Or ‘Don’t s*** where you eat.’
“I want to bite that hand so badly.”
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I seriously think that they get it from colleges, education system, and social media, where you can cancel speakers like Ben Shapiro or try to fire teachers like Jordan Petersen by just being a loud screaming liberal. Then you enter the workplace and think you can carry this behavior over; and heck someplaces you can - until the company or law has different ideas.
I am surprised it was not a Pit Bull rescue, which would have been the ultimate in lefty virtue signalling.
The millennial living with me (33) just got fired. From her 4th job. This year.
She sheepishly admitted she was busy partying. Also, she kept complaining about her employees or managers.
While intelligent, she seems to have a problem with authority or long-term responsibility. She's decided to do gig work instead, so she can just basically do her own thing.
The other millennial living with me has spent the past few days lying in bed -- too depressed to go to work or even light Hanukkah candles. (Or buy them -- she had to buy off of me.)
I can't figure it out with her, either. I never had that luxury. If I don't work -- or respect the boss -- I don't eat. Or pay rent.
Looking for some sympathy little girl?
You can find it between SH!T and SYPHILIS in the dictionary!
SILVER HAIR?
Now that’s what I call pretentious!
She has blue hair too. Indicates a loose screw.
“you never had to worry about repercussions” which we know is a lie. She was one of those that did the banning and the lying.
FTA: She liked the company’s workplace culture. “Twitter has always been about open expression,” she said. “Internally, we’ve always been very vocal. If you have something to say, you never had to worry about repercussions.”
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