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Twitter Employees Don’t Want to Work ‘for a Company That Is Owned by Elon Musk’
New York magazine ^ | Matt Stieb

Posted on 04/25/2022 8:51:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone

It’s all pretty straightforward, according to the new management. In a statement announcing his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter, pending owner Elon Musk wrote in a statement that the company’s core policies would remain the same: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”

But in direct messages and town hall comments on Monday, the people who make Twitter tick were more concerned with debating the future of their employment — concerned that the world’s richest man would not have their best interests in mind. “I feel like im going to throw up,” one staffer told the New York Times in a direct message. “I rly don’t wanna work for a company that is owned by Elon Musk.” One employee tweeted that they were “in need of a stiff drink,” while another reportedly complained of Musk supporters inside the company: “Elon fan boys are braindead mouth breathers and we have a bunch of them at Twitter for the record. Can’t wait [until] he lays half of us off.”

At an all-hands meeting, staffers asked if employee protections were negotiated as part of the deal, as CEO Parag Agrawal and chairman Bret Taylor explained that that the site will run as usual until the deal closes in six months, adding that there are no layoffs “at this time.” Agrawal said that Musk “wants Twitter to be a powerful, positive force in the world, just like all of us” — a conclusion he came to after after speaking with Musk just a few times.

Many of Twitter’s 7,000 employees were naturally concerned about what happens to their stock options when the company is owned by a man who wants to take their company private and has tanked his other company’s shares on several past occasions by tweeting stupid stuff. At the all-hands, the New York Times reports that Agrawal told employees that stock options would convert to cash when the deal is finalized in three to six months; employees would keep getting bonuses according to the company’s vesting schedule and would receive the same benefits for a year after the deal is finalized.

At a company where some staffers make close to half of their total compensation off stock options, employees reportedly worried that they would not have access to the long-run appreciation of the stock; some were also concerned that the value of their initial shares could plummet if Musk succeeds in taking Twitter private. Other questions remained: Would the company move from San Francisco to join Musk in Austin? Will they actually have to go back to the office? What will happen to the platform’s moderation policies when the buyer who hates its moderation policies takes over? And what is going to happen to the Trump ban?

At the company meeting, Agrawal did not provide much clarity on the big-picture stuff. “Once the deal closes, we don’t know what direction this company will go in,” he said. But at least one employee found some humor in his precarious situation:


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Somebody with firmly held beliefs wouldn’t be waiting to be laid off. They would quit.

Taking any retirement or layoff package from somebody such an ass mask would be a violation of their morality and ethics!

Right?

1 posted on 04/25/2022 8:51:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Hey, if they don’t like it, quit and go learn to code....LOL
They might as well as their days are numbered.


2 posted on 04/25/2022 8:52:50 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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For a bunch of communists, the Twitter employees sure have a lot of fascination with their own personal investments.

I guess you could call them Lace Curtain Communists.

3 posted on 04/25/2022 8:56:24 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: NoLibZone

Boo Hoo

Cancel your self.


4 posted on 04/25/2022 8:57:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NoLibZone

“Elon fan boys are braindead mouth breathers and we have a bunch of them at Twitter for the record. Can’t wait [until] he lays half of us off.”

So half of Twitter employees are unwoke “braindead mouth breathers”? That is encouraging.


5 posted on 04/25/2022 8:57:24 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: NoLibZone

That’s GREAT.

Save Musk the trouble of having to fire them.

I just hope that includes that risible CEO.


6 posted on 04/25/2022 8:58:37 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: NoLibZone

No, certainly they should all be accommodated.

Just as everyone who disagreed with mRna was


7 posted on 04/25/2022 8:59:47 PM PDT by algore
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To: NoLibZone

Like there’s a shortage in the Tech World for IT workers.


8 posted on 04/25/2022 8:59:50 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: NoLibZone

A liberal rag promulgating nonsense.How do they know? The deal takes some time to finalize. Pure bunk from the usual suspects...............


9 posted on 04/25/2022 9:01:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: NoLibZone

“until the deal closes in six months”

Plenty of time for “fundamental change”.


10 posted on 04/25/2022 9:01:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NoLibZone

Fine.

They can quit.

They can learn to code.


11 posted on 04/25/2022 9:01:51 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: NoLibZone

They can all go bang on the drum all day.


12 posted on 04/25/2022 9:02:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NoLibZone

Personally I I don’t have a dog in this hunt, since I don’t twit. If they don’t want to ride for the brand they can ride out. Oh! Don’t let the door hit you in the azz when you leave. Pard.


13 posted on 04/25/2022 9:04:35 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: NoLibZone

quit bitch


14 posted on 04/25/2022 9:04:39 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: NoLibZone

Twaters work?

In exactly what sense?


15 posted on 04/25/2022 9:04:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NoLibZone

They do know that India doesn’t cavil over these sorts of things, right?


16 posted on 04/25/2022 9:05:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: All

Well... Bye.

As Curly Bill Brocious would say.


17 posted on 04/25/2022 9:05:24 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: NoLibZone

The entire staff needs to be culled nd possibly fired. Plenty of guys around who are qualified to do whatever Twitter employees do.


18 posted on 04/25/2022 9:06:01 PM PDT by Veto! (Political correctness offends me)
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To: NoLibZone

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass then, liberal douche.


19 posted on 04/25/2022 9:06:09 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what you get when gullible children run a 'news' channel.)
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To: NoLibZone

Elon should turn off their Teslas.


20 posted on 04/25/2022 9:08:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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