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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: ken in texas

I’d let my son hit it, then dump her.


61 posted on 12/24/2022 8:00:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SmokingJoe

I wouldnt recommnend using the business you work for to criticize the man you work for.


62 posted on 12/24/2022 8:04:16 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: ken in texas

Now. Another aspect. The color scheme. Blue-Over-Yellow.

Political statement? Discuss amongst yourselves, FR. :0)


63 posted on 12/24/2022 8:04:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: I want the USA back
He's a French bulldog; he's already given up.
64 posted on 12/24/2022 8:05:15 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: SmokingJoe

I’ll be the NYT never got upset when Conservative software engineers lost their jobs (got cancelled) under previous Twitter management. In fact, I’ll be they celebrated when that happened.


65 posted on 12/24/2022 8:08:18 AM PST by rbg81
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To: SmokingJoe

Excellent. She’s exactly the kind of trash Musk needed to take out. Glad he did so.


66 posted on 12/24/2022 8:08:26 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Gaffer

Yup, a 34-year old married woman (to a man shockingly) with a dog. A dog mom. No sign of any children as usual, and her fertility running out. She’s just going to be another voluntary evolutionary dead end.


67 posted on 12/24/2022 8:09:04 AM PST by lado
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To: SmokingJoe

Self entitled spoiled brat. Good luck getting another job.


68 posted on 12/24/2022 8:11:02 AM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: Bryan24
“The Boss is always right.”

"The boss isn't always right, but he is always the boss".

69 posted on 12/24/2022 8:14:39 AM PST by dearolddad
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To: SmokingJoe

YOU NEVER PEE INTO THE COMPANY SOUP

It will be very interesting to see how many of the Twitter idiots ever have another employer after Musk exposes their behavior


70 posted on 12/24/2022 8:19:03 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: V_TWIN

NO WORK ETHIC=====

PARTICIPATION TROPHIES FOR OVER MANY YEARS


71 posted on 12/24/2022 8:20:05 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: sopo

Yes, Bari was let go for less. I think all she did was question why they were not letting people speak their mind and the cancel culture mob came out.


72 posted on 12/24/2022 8:20:30 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: SmokingJoe
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.

She isn't sure why she lost her job. Life should be a learning experience. In the case of Solomon, it isn't. I feel sorry for her dog.

73 posted on 12/24/2022 8:20:46 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Gaffer

The NYT edifice is literally the entrance to hell.

All of the worlds problems would be eliminated if Putin would just drop the Tsar Bomba on those coordinates /spit.


74 posted on 12/24/2022 8:23:33 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: SmokingJoe
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.”

“It was a little impulsive,” she said.

The tweets got a lot of traction, with thousands of likes and retweets, putting Ms. Solomon in danger of becoming the main character of the day on Twitter. The next day she found herself locked out of her work email and Slack account

Cussed out the new owner in public and lost her job? How bizarre /s

Notice NYT didn't quote the tweet that had two expletives.

75 posted on 12/24/2022 8:25:58 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: SmokingJoe

76 posted on 12/24/2022 8:27:53 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: central_va

NOT without a heavy pre-dose of antibiotics——


77 posted on 12/24/2022 8:29:20 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: SmokingJoe

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.


Interesting that she recognizes another possibility. But, she might know the truth but wants to give a spin on it.


78 posted on 12/24/2022 8:29:33 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

I wish we had a “like” button. ☺️☕️


79 posted on 12/24/2022 8:30:00 AM PST by FryingPan101 (God bless you, Jim.)
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To: lado

GOOD-—We do NOT need more of her kind.


80 posted on 12/24/2022 8:30:07 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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