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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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To: SmokingJoe

Sounds like the people who refused to take an experimental shot.


101 posted on 12/24/2022 9:59:11 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas explains everything )
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To: marktwain; ConservativeMind

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.


102 posted on 12/24/2022 10:00:03 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Reily

She will be alright, there are lots of 200K jobs available.


103 posted on 12/24/2022 10:02:44 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas explains everything )
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To: ken in texas

Never trust a woman with blue hair. Or green, purple, cherry-red, or any other hair color that does not occur in nature.


104 posted on 12/24/2022 10:07:45 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: SmokingJoe

I got as far as “her French bulldog, Bosworth” ...


105 posted on 12/24/2022 10:08:04 AM PST by x
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To: Angelino97
Never trust a woman with blue hair.


106 posted on 12/24/2022 10:09:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lado
Yup, a 34-year old married woman (to a man shockingly) with a dog.

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.

107 posted on 12/24/2022 10:11:00 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: bray

I’m more worried about the dog!


108 posted on 12/24/2022 10:29:18 AM PST by Reily
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To: SmokingJoe
In Ms. Solomon's case, she directly challenged her boss in a series of tweets.

These people expect to call out their employer publicly and expect nothing to happen?

Are they all mad?

109 posted on 12/24/2022 10:32:20 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

She lacks two things.

Common sense.

Manners.

Enjoy your unemployment.


110 posted on 12/24/2022 11:25:06 AM PST by aculeus
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To: joe fonebone

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

Or ‘Don’t s*** where you eat.’


111 posted on 12/24/2022 11:57:57 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: joe fonebone

“I want to bite that hand so badly.”


112 posted on 12/24/2022 11:58:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ConservativeMind
The shape of her head, is weird.

The image is compressed vertically.


113 posted on 12/24/2022 12:05:13 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: hillarys cankles
“ Where do these dumbasses get off on thinking you can challenge or bad mouth your boss with zero consequences?

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.

114 posted on 12/24/2022 2:41:40 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: x
I got as far as “her French bulldog, Bosworth” ...

I am surprised it was not a Pit Bull rescue, which would have been the ultimate in lefty virtue signalling.

115 posted on 12/24/2022 2:47:22 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Scarlett156
If you see people in this age group in a work scenario, they appear to be very happy, healthy, and high-functioning. That’s because most of the evidence of how effed-up they are is in the virtual world.

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.

116 posted on 12/24/2022 4:27:51 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Looking for some sympathy little girl?

You can find it between SH!T and SYPHILIS in the dictionary!


117 posted on 12/24/2022 4:58:01 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: ken in texas

SILVER HAIR?

Now that’s what I call pretentious!


118 posted on 12/24/2022 5:15:35 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: ConservativeMind

She has blue hair too. Indicates a loose screw.


119 posted on 12/24/2022 7:14:43 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: SmokingJoe

“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.”


120 posted on 12/24/2022 7:41:29 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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