Twitter just told employees all office buildings are temporarily closed, badge access is suspended

[highplainsdem]

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EDITING: I'm seeing reports online that this is happening because hundreds of Twitter employees quit in response to Musk's ultimatum telling them they had to commit to working very long hours. Some tweets are saying 75% of the employees quit.

ANOTHER EDIT to let you know that Kylie Robison, tech reporter for Fortune magazine, is posting updates at https://twitter.com/kyliebytes .


From the managing editor of Platformer:

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NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.


We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.


Offices will reopen on November 21st. In the meantime: "Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere."

EDITING AGAIN to add updates from Zoe Schiffer:

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NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow.


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.

[Deuxcents]

1. Good grief. What a mess

[Demovictory9]

8. What a nightmare boss he is

[ToxMarz]

49. Musk is like a cockroach, he can't stand the light. And Twitter is a very bright light.

Every minute detail of everything he does with the platform is exposed and readily apparent. His whole persona is his 'mystique' and posing. Not that many people actually own Teslas (relatively speaking) and those owners are posers too so sing his praises. How many regular people fly in his rockets? Not many. But Twitter is the great democratizer. He bought it because he didn't like peons talking back to him, big mistake.

[catbyte]

2. Didn't he order all employees back to the office and said they couldn't work from home

anymore just last week? Working for Twitter must be a nightmare.

[SheltieLover]

6. Yes he did!

Psychotic split?

[panader0]

9. Paranoia terrified of employee sabotage. The guy is losing it.

[tblue37]

14. When you fear employee sabotage, there's usually a good reason why employees might want

to sabotage your company.

[Irish_Dem]

36. We don't know if it is a real or imagined threat.

But I agree, it sounds paranoid.

[SunSeeker]

169. Yup.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yep. Employees supposed to work in the parking lot I guess.

Can't work from home, can work in the office.

[RockRaven]

12. Not just that but a couple days ago he sent a company wide email saying everyone had to reply

pledging to work their asses off (my summary of the statement they were asked to affirm) by Friday, and anyone who didn't reply with the pledge would be laid off with 3 months severance (like the 1/2 already laid off).

[Irish_Dem]

46. Maybe he meant work their asses off in the Starbucks next door.

[littlemissmartypants]

106. Aren't they on strike right now?...

[Irish_Dem]

110. Maybe Twitter employees should join them.

[calimary]

171. Could they say yes and then just not comply?

Or is there a “trip wire” in there somewhere?

[Ohio Joe]

3. Interesting...

I’m eager to see just how many employees refused to be slave labor.

[nolabear]

4. Is he having a little psychotic break?

Damn…

[SheltieLover]

7. My 1st thought!

[nolabear]

11. The responses are hysterical

“Because no tech employee could possibly sabotage it unless they were physically in the building.”

[SheltieLover]

17. Gawd...

[Irish_Dem]

33. Right so why would he shut down the offices?

I am trying to figure out what is going on.

[exboyfil]

111. Preventing fire axe to the servers?

[Irish_Dem]

13. "Little" is probably not the right adjective here.

[nolabear]

16. You got that right. He's having a General Jack Ripper sized break.

“Feed me, Mandrake…”

[Irish_Dem]

26. The good news is that Musk is not in charge of the nuclear codes right now.

[nolabear]

37. LOL!

Keep an eye on those rockets though.

[Irish_Dem]

40. With his current mental status he shouldn't even have a sharp pair of scissors

in his possession.

Much less rockets.

[Pinback]

164. Women seek him out.

They want his precious bodily fluids.

This is one of the most bizarre public self immolations I’ve ever witnessed. The guy may go full Howard Hughes before long.

[nolabear]

165. I'm almost embarrassed at how fascinated I am.

Almost. 😄

[uponit7771]

21. +1,

[StormKing]

29. F*** yes he is and it is great!!!

🤣🤣🤣

[littlemissmartypants]

109. ....bwaaaahahaha...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

61. Rich, irrational and incompetent is not a mental illness.

[Treefrog]

77. Best post.

[Irish_Dem]

78. Irrational and incompetent were last week. We are in new territory now.

[Mr. Sparkle]

5. If elon didnt own the company, he would have been fired already.

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what a shitshow

[gratuitous]

15. Nothing to see here

Just an ordinary day in the normal course of business. And please don't say anything on social media or to the press about this perfectly routine day at the office.

[highplainsdem]

22. Just office. I just added that word to the thread title.

[Irish_Dem]

27. What other kinds of buildings does twitter have?

[NullTuples]

123. Infrastructure, like data centers. It would've been really bad if those workers were locked out, too

But it turns out it's specifically offices only.

[Irish_Dem]

126. Thanks, I assumed by offices they meant data centers.

Yes if those doors are locked I don't suppose the data centers run themselves.

[NullTuples]

131. Remember last year when FB's data center crashed & nobody could get in?

In that case it was because the door key card system was on the same network(s) that had crashed.

But what if Twitter's key cards are managed in the offices that are now shut down? Or something equally likely?

[Irish_Dem]

132. Wow, yes of course. No doubt Musk did not think this through.

Shut down the offices, data centers may or may not be open.

[DET]

19. Chaos

Musk gets more and more like Trump every day.

[tanyev]

20. A mass resignation could take the company down too, Elon.

That seems to be the cliff you’re actually headed for.

[NullTuples]

147. Already happening...

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[cornball 24]

23. SOUNDS LIKE MUSK ATTENDED THE TRUMP UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INEPTITUDE!

[NullTuples]

125. It's looking like his much-professed degrees may even be in question (link to thread)

Non-twitter archive of thread:
https://archive.ph/gzGpF


Really long thread analyzing Musk's questionable history & who has helped him along the way. May be just conspiracy theory, but many of the docs are from court filings.

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[dalton99a]

168. Such a fucking fraud

[C_U_L8R]

24. And you're fired if you don't show up to work

Wow. Musk is pretty f-n incompetent. How does someone so dumb get so wealthy?

[delisen]

31. The Art of the Con

[Irish_Dem]

47. It is beginning to look like he scammed everyone.

Convinced everyone he was a genius. Like the FTX guy.

[anarch]

63. his family owned an emerald mine, for starters

How does anyone become wealthy under our economic system? By luck of "birth lottery" or by ruthlessly exploiting workers.

[Wednesdays]

75. My old signature line used to be

"No one worth billions made all that money themselves."

[iemanja]

25. It didn't take him long to destroy that company

What a cluster*.

[louis-t]

28. What a friggin disaster.

[Snarkoleptic]

30. Wonder how long it would take to unionize the Twitter workforce.

Seems it's high time to organize.

[bluboid]

71. that would be my vote!

but they gotta have inside help & he's created so much chaos...
I bet some insiders have made contact & the big unions are eyeballing each development -

[sarcasmo]

32. Elon moving operations to China.

[Irish_Dem]

42. But why all the drama? Why not just move it quietly?

[sarcasmo]

43. Elon is a paranoid lunatic.

[Irish_Dem]

45. I can't really argue with that diagnosis at this point.

[Bluethroughu]

34. He's got Russian remote workers to fill the positions.

If I had a Twitter account, it would be deleted before this jerk wrecks your privacy.

[TeamProg]

55. I have a Twitter account and I found out that if I delete the account, my name attached is still

active and available for someone else.. some stranger could take over my real name.. I should have used a fake name way back when.

I started a Mastodon.Social with an abbreviated name..

Other Tweeters are there.

[Catherine Vincent]

117. I used fake names. I'm on my third account.

[Bluethroughu]

157. I do not have a twitter, facebook, or instagram.

I never heard about name creation could be taken over, that's terrible!

[barbtries]

133. i was unable to delete my account.

i deactivated it. now every time i visit the site it asks me to sign in using my google account and it knows who I am. i don't. I don't know if there really is a way to delete it; I've googled and even the sites that say "delete your twitter" only give the information for deactivation.

[Marthe48]

150. I had a twitter account

I never use it. I wanted to delete it when musk took over. I got information that if I deactivate it and don't use it for 30 days, it'll be deleted. So I hope that happens. I don't think I filled in much personal information when I created the account, but It was a long time ago.

[barbtries]

154. hopefully that will happen.

but at the rate things are going to shit over there, i have little faith that someone will not be hanging on to the data. well my life is an open book anyway. bigger things to worry about.

[Irish_Dem]

137. I want to join twitter now. It's getting really exciting.

[YoshidaYui]

149. I am there!

Not leaving

[Irish_Dem]

151. I never joined. I was a fool.

I never dreamed it would be so much fun.

[YoshidaYui]

153. It is fun

All my favorite Japanese bands are there online

[Bluethroughu]

159. Our personal info is so exposed, but I don't want to give it to such a

Reckless structure he is creating over there.

[Irish_Dem]

160. I know, but it is tempting right now.

[nolabear]

35. Oh dear. Somebody did it...

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[keithbvadu2]

56. Or Trump who says he knows more than the generals.

[OMGWTF]

62. Perfect!

I have driven a Chevy Volt for eight years and it's a great car. I always thought my next car would be a Tesla, but fuk that. I'd be too embarrassed to drive one of those right now.

[CousinIT]

38. So first he tells them they must come in to offices to work, then closes them?

[ZonkerHarris]

39. "You cant work from home!" "Now get out of here!" - Twitter will just be a URL by Monday

[W_HAMILTON]

41. Musk is afraid the employees are going to sabotage the company?

What is he afraid of? That they will sabotage it before he finishes sabotaging it himself?

[Irish_Dem]

44. Musk SCREAMING: You guys can't kill twitter. That's my job.

[AntivaxHunters]

48. lol this fits

[ancianita]

50. Heh heh. Elon be like, "Y'all gonna quit? I'll show you! I'ma do a LOCKOUT!"

[tinrobot]

51. 75% of the less than half who were left?

Damn.

Maybe he could make money renting empty office space to a successful tech company.

[Irish_Dem]

65. Right, the only person he locked out was the janitor.

[bucolic_frolic]

52. Eloon is increasingly close to owning just the brand

because nothing will be left of the company.

He did call for "hardcore" work effort I read earlier today. Is this work-life balance?

[SunSeeker]

53. Wow. Sounds like he's about to file for bankruptcy. nt

[moniss]

85. Right you are

and that was my first thought.

[Irish_Dem]

86. That is a real possibility. If not, he is acting crazy.

[Jim__]

54. He might as well have just flushed the $44 billion down the toilet.

[Quixote1818]

89. Exactly and he may end up losing more than that since most of advertisers have left.

Every day it's open he is more in the hole.

[Wednesdays]

100. Or piled it in the street and set it on fire.

At least there would be some entertainment value in that.

[Phoenix61]

57. He's crazy as a sprayed roach! nt

[republianmushroom]

58. I like it

[Irish_Dem]

67. I agree. You have to admit the man has a certain panache.

[keithbvadu2]

59. How is Twitter still operating? Some kind of auto-pilot?

How is Twitter still operating?

Some kind of auto-pilot?

[Irish_Dem]

69. The little twitter birds fly the tweets around.

That's what the picture shows.

[LiberalArkie]

60. Cool thread on Elons schoolng

https://democraticunderground.com/100217383462

[GopherGal]

170. Wouldn't it be infuriating as hell if you had a *real* UPenn degree?

To see this idiot and the TFG idiot running around exaggerating their Ivy League credentials, inherited wealth and personality disorders?

[Hortensis]

64. Wonder if he could be quick-developing an android workforce.

I'd be a little nervous about going back in when summoned.

[Irish_Dem]

80. Maybe he is bugging the place.

No matter what, people will be apprehensive about returning when the doors are unlocked.

[Hortensis]

97. Who wouldn't be? Seriously. Don't open the door! DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!"

[Irish_Dem]

101. Yep. Musk will unlock the front door and the entire city will have been evacuated.

[Hortensis]

114. Already the corporate version of a scary old house

with strange sounds coming from it.

[marble falls]

66. It nice to see the switchover in new management go so seamlessly. I for one will not miss twitter.

[multigraincracker]

68. For those poor workers, just remember

the boss has $45 billion more to lose than you.

[ificandream]

70. I predict Twitter under Musk doesn't make it into the New Year.

I'm guessing he'll either sell it or scrap it entirely.

[haele]

92. It probably won't last much past Thanksgiving.

It's glide-sloping downwards; without the in-house knowledge on such a large-scale system architecture and the regular internal housekeeping it requires, Twitter will bloat, falter and collapse.

Haele

[Irish_Dem]

103. I don't know if it will last until tomorrow.

[Mr. Evil]

72. Really!?

"We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company."

He's worried about them!? He's taking caring of that all by himself! What a fucking doofus.

[Historic NY]

73. Running on impulsive power

by another narcissistic moron

[Disaffected]

74. Looks like he wants to try out his new

FSD system (Full Self Destruction).

[Treefrog]

76. This is like some slow motion train wreck.

[Irish_Dem]

81. It looks like a fast motion train wreck to me.

[Martin68]

79. Warning! Totalitarian dictatorial authoritarian takeover in process. Please follow instructions and

avoid independent thinking. Prepare to surrender total autonomy over your personal freedom, and dedicate yourself selflessly to the mission of your new owner. You no longer have a life independent of your employer and his enrichment. Get used to it or leave.

[Irish_Dem]

83. I guess this is what he meant by hardcore.

[Martin68]

87. I was wondering what Musk meant by that, but this is my observation on what he probably means.

[Irish_Dem]

88. I think you are entirely correct about what he meant.

[bahboo]

82. heckuva job, Muskie....

[BunnyMcGee]

84. I bet Elon is Soooo happy with himself

another stable genius

[iemanja]

90. They quit, so Musk figured he'd lock the ones out who didn't quit?

That's the business acumen of the richest man in the world? Good grief.

[demmiblue]

91. It's like end times over there!

One last Duke pic just in case

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

98. We need a support animal if we are going to wade through the Musk insanity.

[LiberalFighter]

93. What confidential company info could we put out there?

[patphil]

94. So, Muskie is killing the blue bird.

Hubris reigns supreme!
I doubt he could get 20 billion for twitter right noiw...maybe 15 billion.

[Irish_Dem]

105. Maybe we can send in special ops and extract the little blue bird.

Hate to see Musk take her down.

[Initech]

95. Holy shit, Twitter will be gone in a week if this keeps up.

It was a nice service there once. Fuck Elon!

[Leith]

96. There must be something in the water

at the rich and powerful rethug clubhouse.

Doesn't it seem like there have been a lot of of "odd" behavior in the rich (Kanye, Elon), powerful (the orange menace), and politicians? They are having some world class meltdowns and crazy spells. What the heck is going on?

[Irish_Dem]

108. I've been noticing that too. More and more public insanity.

[littlemissmartypants]

99. What a winner this Elon fellow is proving to be...

[littlemissmartypants]

102. Oh, oh, oh....I know...

Someone has stolen his sink!

[IronLionZion]

104. Sounds like a brilliant business genius in the style of Trump

[LiberalFighter]

107. I think they don't want people to know Russia is funding his company.

[LuckyCharms]

112. It's impossible to fuck up a company that badly and that quickly...

unless you're doing it on purpose.

Wonder what his motive is?

[Irish_Dem]

116. I know, it is a spectacular performance.

If he is doing it on purpose, consider the usual motives: money and/or power.

Greed, ambition, sex, revenge. Usually the culprits in many crimes.

Saudi hates social media, it fuels protest. They could have paid Musk to destroy Twitter.
And promised all kinds of things to him. Like they did with Trump and Kushner.

Or maybe Musk is having a total psychotic break. Right in front of our eyes.
Possible bi-polar.
Possible drug use.

Not sure yet what is going on.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

142. Perhaps twitter is too effective at bypassing the RW propaganda machine.

Just spitballing, here. Maybe twitter counteracts Fox, Sinclair, AM radio and billionaires don't like regulations and 'tax the filthy rich'.

[Irish_Dem]

148. Could be.

No longer of any use to Putin.
So burn it down.

[exboyfil]

113. Any cash flow issues with the severance packages?

They won't be paying the salaries, but how are the severance payments structured? How does Twitter get cash? Are those sources drying up?

[Irish_Dem]

115. I wondered about that too.

Does he have the cash on hand to fund the severance packages?

Maybe he was caught off guard by all the resignations and doesn't have the budget
for the severances.

[MLAA]

118. Who buys a company and fires half the staff immediately before he even knows what they do?

A narcissistic megalomaniac!

[Irish_Dem]

134. When he thinks they are all stupid, incompetent and just take up space.

Yes the toxic narcissism is in full display.

[MLAA]

162. Reminds me of tfg!

[Irish_Dem]

163. Yes they are both narcissists. Same symptoms.

Trump is also a ruthless sociopath.
Maybe Musk is too.

Musk also looks autistic as well.

[Zambero]

119. Musk's corporate vision is Dystopian

If this kills Twitter once and for all, so be it.

[wysimdnwyg]

120. I can't stop reading the comments

[Irish_Dem]

136. I know, I can't stop either.

And making jokes along the way.
They write themselves.

[Meowmee]

121. Sad what he is doing

They should not have sold to him.

[NBachers]

122. Looks like Ripley's engaged the Self-Destruct system.

[Jakes Progress]

124. Oh, yeah. Billionaires are all geniuses. Don't you know.

[Smackdown2019]

127. Hmmmm. Perhaps the last Twitter tweet may soon read

BRB.....

[Grokenstein]

128. Elon's gonna find the strawberry thief if he has to sink the whole ship.

[Irish_Dem]

141. Musk is acting out every great scene from our favorite movies.

All in one week.

[OverBurn]

129. Dr. Evil is turning Twitter from questionable to full on shit show.

[BlueIdaho]

130. There are dumpster fires

And then there is Musk’s Dumpster Fire.

[Irish_Dem]

143. Yep. A-1 Spectacular Cluster F.

Quite a show.

[BlueIdaho]

146. Indeed.

[Tree Lady]

135. I read they fired the guy in charge of badges

And got locked out. He was called to come back in, I am hoping he said NO!

[Irish_Dem]

144. When they make the movie, this scene has to be in it.

[Tree Lady]

152. I can't wait for the movie

And I would love to see a movie where Trump is dragged screaming and shouting to jail.

[Irish_Dem]

158. Musk is acting out so many great scenes for the movie.

The script is writing itself.

Maybe Trump can write his own movie script, from the comfort of his jail cell.

[getagrip_already]

156. What is he going to do if his account is deactivated?

Leave t he keys in the safe and scramble the combination on your way out.

[YoshidaYui]

138. Friend of mine on Twitter said Twitter would be closed in seven days.

For good. I told him bullshit. I said I’ll believe it when I see it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

139. Turns out bluebirds can't fly with chains on their feet.

You shit your nest, Musky, now sleep in it or pick it out.

Birds should have a union. Or start employee-owned twee2u and unionize.

[Ferrets are Cool]

140. What a 44 billion dollar clusterfuck

[housecat]

145. A lot like TFG

[Takket]

155. now would be a great time for Laura Loomer to chain herself to the door

[eShirl]

161. Wile Elon Coyote

Supra Genius

[herding cats]

166. Down Detector shows Twitter is going through some things.

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

[Blue Owl]

167. The Twitshow Shitshow