Word inside Twitter is that A LOT of employees are not saying “yes” to staying at Musk’s “extremely hardcore Twitter 2.0.” He has been meeting today with engineers to convince them to stay. His deadline to decide to stay or leave expired 6 min ago. https://t.co/IErjQTMRE6
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 17, 2022
Leave it to Elon Musk to run our beloved bird app into the ground. Reports have recently surfaced about a exodus of key employees in the company, prompting users to think that the end is nearer than we all expected.
Well the guy did promise big changes, right? Early on, Musk had fired roughly half of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce. More dismissals and resignations have followed because of the Tesla chief's managerial style. Nobody likes a technocrat for a micromanager, we suppose. It all came to ahead when Musk apparently announced an "extremely hardcore" new work culture in the company.
Update: Employee’s badge access has been disabled until Monday. It does seem like there will be … not much left of the company by then.
— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 18, 2022
We should probably have a serious discussion about the ease with which a billionaire haphazardly purchased & immediately destroyed a company that employed 7,500 people and facilitated essential communication for hundreds of millions.
— Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno) November 18, 2022
Meanwhile, a message projected on the side of Twitter headquarters tonight reads:
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 18, 2022
“Elon Musk: mediocre manchild, pressurized privilege, petty racist, megalomaniac, worthless billionaire, bankruptcy baby, supreme parasite, petulant pimple, apartheid baby”pic.twitter.com/ltVMYVuSce
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According to The Verge, employees had gotten a deadline of 5 p.m. E.T. to stay with Twitter or to get a package of three months' worth of severance and leave. Welp. Most of them chose to go with the latter. Musk had given the ultimatum to make way for what he brands as "Twitter 2.0." This prompted the exit of engineers, maintenance crew members, developers, and more, leaving the company's system in shambles. It has been estimated that about 75 percent of the remaining Twitter staff had tendered their resignations.
Hence, the hashtags #RIPTwitter and #GoodbyeTwitter, as well as trending topics like Elon Musk (well, he's been trending everyday now) and Twitter 2.0. Former employees couldn't help but speak out against the Musk era, as well. Of course, even through its tragic demise (crossed fingers that it's not), Twitter had a field day. Hopefully, this won't be its last.
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.
— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) November 18, 2022
Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes".
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 17, 2022
Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy.
I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay.
Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't. https://t.co/VrPEn4IwBG
The #RIPTwitter and #GoodByeTwitter trends were started by the staff members who quit. They are mourning for having to quit the jobs they loved due to the 36 hour ultimatum.
— Orion ??????? They/he (@OriTomorrow) November 18, 2022
They had until just today, Thursday to make their decisions.
Keeping reading... ??
So far no Twitter employees have been deactivated — even those who’ve publicly resigned. Musk and his team only collected the list of “yes’s” — employees who said they want to be part of Twitter 2.0. They’re still trying to track who is out.
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022
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