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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We’ll need to see the lab report first.
I would bet that one year of her “code” could be duplicated and improved in less than a week by a 14 year old nerd
“...Ms. Solomon had become part of a small number of media industry employees who lost their jobs this year...”
Best. Economy. Ever. EVER! Brandon told us so!
By all means, let’s concentrate on the lamentations of these ‘small number’ of Twits who lost their jobs by biting the hand that fed them.
I mean, there’s nothing else of interest going on in the whole wide world, is there?
Losers.
Her linkedin reads quite impressive
“Currently working on the Core API Platform team helping build Twitter’s GraphQL API in Scala.
Designed a scheme for modeling “expected errors” (Results) in the GraphQL schema which is well-used in the industry as a GraphQL standard.
Led a cross-functional effort to support visibility ...” filtering natively in GraphQL to ensure health and safety of the platform while also supporting fast product iteration and experimentation.
Led an effort to support caching and subquery caching for GraphQL queries, enabling faster query times which is now used for the majority of production GraphQL queries at Twitter.
Led an effort for modeling data in GraphQL and expanding that knowledge to customer teams.”
Stupid entitled twit.
Feel good story. Merry Christmas.
Well said and nice story. Merry Christmas.
Not so smart Blue-Haired Girl: “You suck!”
Elon: “You’re fired!”
Tip : “...to take on the institutions where they worked.” That’s not a bright idea, snowflake. It might get you fired.
I hope now that she has free time...Id suggest she bone up on Home Decorating Skills .... /s
“When Ms. Solomon was growing up outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, she never imagined she would end up working at a marquee company, much less tangling with a multibillionaire”
shocker: the multi-billionaire won ...
“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.”
a lot like the ones NYT itself fired simply for not following in lockstep their requirement to parrot hard leftist/fascist/propaganda/lies
perhaps not always right, but always the BOSS.
Face it - newspapers don't have the staff to get the stuff to 'find' the stories to support only democrats. I'm guessing corrupt 'intelligence' thugs are feeding them the same kind of crap they fed Twitter lived on. Is the CIA also paying them off for 'good hit stories against conservative Americans' and "great placement"? That's against the law, bimbo.
We all pay for 'intelligence to be collected for the protection of all of us'. It's not suppose to be a way to pay off corrupt 'teacher's' pets' in the news industry.
How would YOU feel Katherine Rosman of the New York Times if all the people in New York City paid taxes for police protection but only city employees were protected? It's the same sweetie.
Think about going into an honest profession Katherine Rosman.
She’s 34 years old, and was raised by inept, coddling parents … and Elon Musk is the first person she’s dealt with in a position of authority who wasn’t an employee or agent of the government.
I hate the NYT and I refuse to subscribe to pay to read their commie propaganda.
I wonder what her pronouns are? /sarc
It’s a shame she said all of that on her last day on the job. Talk about bad timing.
I love stories with happy endings!!!
In Ms. Solomon’s case, she directly challenged her boss in a series of tweets.
When I was young, employees who wanted to keep their jobs generally went along with whatever the boss wanted. "Directly challenging your boss" was a normal way of getting fired.
I guess today's snowflakes don't understand the word "boss."
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