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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
She retweeted Mr. Musk’s post referring to the “poorly batched RPCs” and added a comment of her own, in which she addressed him directly: “you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching,” Ms. Solomon wrote. “Like did you bother to even learn how graphql works.”
Three minutes later, she added a second tweet that included two expletives. In it, she told Mr. Musk that he had no right to criticize the people in charge of Twitter’s infrastructure “while you’re also scrambling to rehire folks you laid off.”
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Yeah, dropping expletive laden public tweets about your boss is sure to work out well.
Solomon is a prime example of people raised in a culture where they can do no wrong and everyone is a winner. As a result, these people completely lack the ability to introspect on their behavior. There is no impulse control, no reflection on possible fallout.
Whatever these ‘software engineers’ were doing, couldn’t have been too important... Twitter is still operating fine without them. Proving that their skills were obviously useless to the organization that was paying them large amounts of money.
God help them now... Because it looks like they may actually need to get a real job, where they’ll need to do real work and if they plan on bad mouthing their next employer, they can count on getting fired again.
“Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore.,
after joining an early morning protest (joint for Ukraine/animal rights/free Palestine/BLM), put her French bulldog, Bosworth, on a leash and walked
down a leafy street to a favorite coffee shop for a vegan latte - for Bosworth. “He must have his morning latte,” she stated, “He’s been vegan since we rescued him.”
Unfortunately humility is rare in this country nowadays.
She coulda saved herself a lot of trouble had she exhibited just a little......that and some respect for her employer.
She lacks appreciation for the role entrepreneurs like Musk have in shaping the world. Without people like him, her educational opportunities would not have extended to “software engineer” but more likely would have ended with “Elementary Education” or the “Mrs. Degree”. Women especially in high tech careers should realize they would not have this kind of career opportunity if not for “the boss”.
Which means she should have been acting a lot more like Lawrence and a lot less like an entitled yuppster brat. She doesn’t understand nearly as much as she thinks she does.
“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”
Yeah that’sa real brain teaser. Tell off the boss in public and lose your job? Weird….
[[“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.”]]
Well gee, tha KS for filling us all in on the boring minute by minute details of this self entitled loud-mouth’s day. We were all wondering just what she did with her day. /s
Bumb Ditch!
“He’s been vegan since we rescued him.”
Animal abuse
If you walk past her and the dog you hear this little voice - “Please, please kidnap me!”.
Funny.
French bulldogs ain’t cheap and unless I miss my guess shes wearing Doc Martin boots.....every pair I’ve ever seen are north of $100......many are WAY north.
Bite the hand that feeds you and this is what happens.
—> you hear this little voice - “Please, please kidnap me!”.
😂😂😂
“ Where do these dumbasses get off on thinking you can challenge or bad mouth your boss with zero consequences?”
Law of Unintended Consequences, of being raised with Gentle Parenting and validation.
Exactly. Unfortunately, there are way too MANY who share her attitude & lack of understanding, awareness & appreciation.
Play stupid games.
Win stupid prizes.
AFAIC that says it ALL right there. To me it is unimaginable how the NYT actually thinks this pampered leftist millennial with a $3000 status symbol dog can actually engender sympathy for her plight.
It was posted with the wrong dimensions resulting in an incorrect aspect ratio. This may be a bit better.
Sasha in her combat boots in her Ukrainian flag themed living room. How special.
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