Twitter Staff Soften Down Over Information Elon Musk Will Hearth 75%

Guess they’d higher be taught to code.

Twitter staff, utilizing the very platform they work for, had been beside themselves over reviews that Tesla CEO Elon Musk will fireplace 75% of their complete workforce if he turns into the corporate’s new proprietor.

Paperwork obtained by the Washington Submit together with interviews counsel Musk “instructed potential traders in his deal to purchase the corporate that he deliberate to do away with almost 75 p.c of Twitter’s 7,500 staff.”

Such a transfer would scale back staffing to roughly 2,000 staff. 

The large tech firm, even with out Musk’s takeover, was in search of to chop payroll by $800 million by the top of subsequent 12 months, a transfer that may nonetheless get rid of 1 / 4 of the workforce.

Musk mentioned he’ll reduce almost 75 p.c of Twitter’s employees if he takes management. The transfer would drastically have an effect on consumer expertise. https://t.co/JTqxFCt6CX

— The Washington Submit (@washingtonpost) October 20, 2022

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Twitter Staff Apoplectic Over Information Elon Musk Might Considerably Scale back Workforce

After the report that Elon Musk might fireplace a good portion of the Twitter workforce turned public, staff had been beside themselves. Mockingly, they tweeted their disgust.

Matt Walker, a product designer for Twitter, tweeted in regards to the “drama” unfolding behind the scenes of Musk’s potential takeover, concluding “billionaires are assholes.”

Twitter and Mailchimp drama in someday? What’s the frequent thread… Billionaires are assholes.

— Matt Walker (@apixelpusher) October 20, 2022

One girl whose bio defines her as having a ‘income finance’ place with Twitter puzzled, “Y’all don’t care about me?”

These quote retweets wild. Y’all don’t care about me??? https://t.co/Gn9x7rFGQn pic.twitter.com/GzpJVBcBRt

— what’s the 411, hun? (@NKikiGotit) October 20, 2022

Parker Lyons, a senior monetary analyst at Twitter, shared a number of memes, one in every of which indicated staff could be getting a disrespectful severance bundle.

Lyons additionally posted a tweet studying, “While you understand you’re the 75%” together with a clip of Magic Johnson shaking his head and saying “I’m not gonna be right here.”

if you understand you’re the 75%
pic.twitter.com/uOFORPUmbQ

— parker lyons  (@tweetsbyparker) October 20, 2022

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Anxious About ‘Misinformation’

I’m not fairly certain what all of the commotion is about over there at Twitter headquarters.

In spite of everything, this is identical workforce that, upon listening to that Elon Musk wished to buy Twitter, felt like they had been “going to throw up” as a result of they actually “don’t wanna work for an organization that’s owned by Elon Musk.”

Want granted?

Its “completely insane” @ Twitter proper now within the digital valves of personal slack rooms & worker group texts, in accordance with an inner supply. Their take/breakdown simply now:
“I really feel like im going to throw up..I rly don’t wanna work for an organization that’s owned by Elon Musk”…1/

— talmon joseph smith (@talmonsmith) April 25, 2022

The Day by day Mail on the time reported that Twitter staff had been terrified that if Musk purchased the corporate they’d should bodily go in to work.

“Staff bombarded the location and inner message boards with assaults on Musk, and raised fears they’d now be compelled to cease working from house below the brand new regime,” they wrote.

Doesn’t seem that exhibiting as much as the workplace can be a lot of an issue for 75% of them going ahead.

Excellent news. Hope @elonmusk will fireplace everybody at Twitter who’s chargeable for censoring “covid misinformation,” as a result of they’ve suspended and shadow-banned some very informative accounts, some nameless & some well-known scientists, who had been typically confirmed proper through the years. https://t.co/zzeLVXrzfO

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) October 21, 2022

The Washington Submit reviews that drastic cuts to the Twitter workforce would “probably cripple(d) the service’s means to fight misinformation, hate speech, and spam,” as if these are the true issues with Twitter, slightly than the censorship.

They’d roughly 7,500 staff when the platform suppressed true information within the type of a Hunter Biden laptop computer. They’d a bloated employees when Twitter was de-platforming individuals who doubted the efficacy of the COVID vaccine.

Fairly sure they will screw it up simply as unhealthy with only a fraction of the identical folks.