Elon Musk to Twitters employees: Send email every Friday with details of work and coding done in a w

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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Elon Musk continues to set stricter rules on working at Twitter. According to The Verge, Musk wants all Twitter employees to send emails every Friday, updating him about their work or "code samples" if they are engineers. The rule was reportedly laid out in an internal memo, and the employees are instructed to email a company alias so that Musk's normal regular inbox is spared. Currently, Twitter has roughly 2,700 employees.

In a series of tweets, The Verge's editor Alex Heath indicates that employees are required to send the work-update email starting this week. Employees reportedly have to send the email on Wednesday this week because of Thanksgiving celebrations on Thursday and Friday. The internal memo reportedly reads, "Looking forward to making Twitter the highest performing tech software company in the world".

The Verge also reports that Musk organized an all-hands meeting with Twitter employees on Monday, where he said that the company is done with layoffs for now. In fact, Twitter is planning to start re-hiring soon, especially in the sales department. That's because many sales department managers quit the company last week after Musk asked them to fire members from their teams. Bloomberg reports that staff from several sales verticals were laid off on Monday.

Musk also reportedly clarified that Twitter is not relocating its headquarters to Texas from San Francisco; however, he did not expel the possibility. Musk's Tesla moved its HQ to Texas to avoid excessive federal taxes in California. Musk has also indefinitely postponed the relaunch of Twitter Blue - Twitter's $8-worth subscription that now carries special features and a Blue badge. It was earlier scheduled to relaunch on November 29.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/elon-musk-to-twitters-employees-send-email-every-friday-with-details-of-work-and-coding-done-in-a-week/ar-AA14osxe

Like he's going to read all those.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Who is going to review all 2700 emails per week?

Or is he asking for the emails for some other reason?

[rurallib]

3. someone will have to write an app for that........

[Irish_Dem]

5. But first the coders have to send an email to Musk about it.

Which he won't be able to read right away since he has 11,000 tedious emails a month to read.

[Yavin4]

14. This is triggering me.

This is the kind of "managing" that I quit from.

[Kennah]

27. I live it every day. It's the world.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Yes many of us worked in this kind of insanity.

We unfortunately recognized it right away.

[jimfields33]

15. Honestly, that is a lot. But they're acting like this isn't a routine thing.

Most bosses want an overview of your work progress sometimes daily more so weekly. I’m not so sure why this is even news. Actually, I guess the news is why weren’t they doing it to begin with.

[kcr]

23. No

No place I've ever worked required this, and I know no one who has to do this. Not saying this doesn't happen because there are lots of shitty places to work. But this is far from routine.

[Ohio Joe]

24. Non-sense...

30+ years as a developer and I’ve not only never sent code samples on a weekly basis but never heard of anyone who has… It’s insanity.

[GenThePerservering]

30. Not in my experience

in specific projects running to a tight deadline, as the lead I would be asked to update management, but this was definitely not routine. Quite the opposite - managers (including myself) didn't want their inboxes overloaded with this kind of busywork.

This is just Musk's weird flex.

[obamanut2012]

32. Nah, I don't expect my staff to do that

And neither do my bosses. That is rank micromanaging.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Perhaps It's Because It's The Guy At The Top?

Yes, I reviewed the last week (or 2 depending on travel) with the 7 to 10 people working for me.
Know who didn't get week to week or even month to month work updates? My boss (EVP of Mfg), or the COO or the CEO.
I actually do find this requirement to be unusual given the corporate level of the recipient.

[Irish_Dem]

36. It is news, because the CEO of a company wants the progress reports.

Musk does not trust any of his managers.

[Phoenix61]

2. Looking forward to making Twitter the highest performing tech software company in the world".

Since when is Twitter a software company?

[RockRaven]

4. Between 5PM Fri and 9AM Mon, there are 64 hours, or 3840 minutes. So if he doesn't sleep or

lose attention while eating, bathing, or using the toilet, Musk has approximately 85 seconds per employee to review their week's worth of work.

Compiling these emails sure sounds like a good use of everyone's time, doesn't it?

[Irish_Dem]

6. If it keeps Elon busy and out of trouble, maybe it is a good idea.

[Emrys]

7. I guess somebody ought to point out to him that social media is about *shock* people.

The coding and software is just a means to an end. And it wasn't actually that broken in the first place.

That wasn't where Twitter's problems lay. But I don't think he has the foggiest idea how to work on those problems, and trusting anyone else to come in and know more than he does about what the issues are and how to fix them isn't going to happen, mainly because they'll require that he changes his behaviour.

So he'll just drive on with the technofixes that achieve nothing that Twitter needs right now and the disgusting corporate atmosphere he's building until somebody yanks his lead real hard.

[tanyev]

8. They're about to be manacled by micromanagement.

[haele]

9. Busywork. Micro-managing asshole.

His coding knowledge, like mine, is from the '90's and the 2000's. I doubt he even glanced at an introductory coding book on mobile platforms or basic software security protocol since he got kicked out of Paypal.
Does he even know what he's looking at any more? Basic Python, Java, and C++ ain't gonna help him when it comes to looking at code on a multi-platform software system of systems with all sorts of integration, security and maintenance code in place just so it can be used seamlessly across devices and internet/mobile servicers.

All he's doing is wasting an hour or two of his engineer's time on the clock (hopefully) so he can play big genius boss.

Haele

[Emrys]

12. As of last year, he didn't know how to run a Python script:

Dogecoin co-creator says Elon Musk is a grifter who doesn't know how to run basic code

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016337475

[patphil]

10. Is this idiot for real?

So, he's going to get thousands of e-mails each week from his employees, telling him what they did each week.
I suggest they make it a multi-page e-mail to micro-report on their activities to the micro-manager.
Be sure to include bathroom, and lunch breaks, and detailed reports of meetings, and communications with vendors and customers. Not to mention detailed reports on water cooler discussions.
And be sure they include a report of the time it took them to write the report. It may take a couple hours to construct this report.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Professionals at the top of their game do love slave drivers looking over their shoulder.

[sakabatou]

13. I wouldn't be surprised if IT/engineers made a program to do it for them.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. There's a lot of code borrowing. The company pays millions to develop code, so repurpose it.

.

Sloppy programmers try to reinvent the wheel, when established and bulletproof code already exists. Good programmers know the best models to use and grab the code snippets and use them. Since the company already bought the code development, it's prudent to leverage that prior art in future initiatives.

When firms hire consulting groups, they have access to much or all of the code source, but like to write from scratch so they can pad development expenses. The IT management needs to be aware of this, and often consulting firms are successful in pulling the wool over the company's eyes.

.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Not everyone codes 24x7. There design & integration planning, testing & regression testing too.

[Yavin4]

17. Musk thinks that he is Steve Jobs

And he's "rescuing" Twitter like Jobs rescued Apple.

[Solly Mack]

19. 01000100 01000101 01000001 01010010 01000101 01001100 01001111 01001110,

01000111 01001111 01000110 01010101 01000011 01001011 01011001 01001111 01010101 01010010 01010010 01000101 01001100 01000110.

[crickets]

21. 01000010 01010111 01000001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01000001!

[Solly Mack]

22. ;)

[waddirum]

29. sorry boss.....

I’m non-binary.

[Takket]

20. i wonder how many e-mails will say

"I didn't code shit this week because i was running from empty desk to empty desk trying to keep the entire platform from collapsing."

and also, good luck hiring a new sales team! I'm sure they will be lining up to work at the company where the owner dug himself a 45 billion dollar hole, already said bankruptcy is a real possibility, and advertisers are fleeing in droves. Sounds like a real low stress, high stability job! don't worry i'm sure the mypillow shitbag will buy up all the empty ad slots

[lpbk2713]

25. No one likes working for a micro manager.

He is trying to destroy Twitter. The few that are left will be gone soon.

"Will the last person to leave Twitter please turn out the lights."

[ecstatic]

26. Gosh. I hope his email is secure.

Seems a bit risky, not to mention, who wants 2700+ emails every week? Filtered or not.

[chriscan64]

28. It is devolving into Initech from Office Space before our eyes.

Send in the Bobs.

[DFW]

31. Wow, where have I heard THAT one before?

WAY back, maybe 25 years ago, I got a call out of the blue from a guy I had heard of, but never really met. He started out, "we haven't talked in a while...." I reminded him that we hadn't talked EVER. I knew him by reputation, as he presumably did me (otherwise, why would he be calling?). Sure enough, he was head-hunting. Since I had already been with my outfit for almost 25 years (50th anniversary in 2025), I don't know what in the world he thought would entice me to switch jobs at that point.

Not only that, about 2 years before, he recruited away one of our lower echelon guys with a promise of a bigger salary and a relocation to Southern California. The guy jumped at the chance. About ten days later, he was on the phone pleading to come back, he had made an ENORMOUS mistake, please, please, please? The guy in California was a notorious control freak, and demanded detailed reports of every move, every conversation, every trip he made in his car, it was SCARY what the guy wanted. We took him back that time, but he got into some other grass-is-greener deal a year or two later, and we didn't take him back the second time.

If Musk is that way, too, he will end up with nothing but guys like our jerk, always thinking a better deal is right around the corner, until they find out the cost to their peace of mind.

[dalton99a]

34. Normal people don't work for Elon Musk or Donald Trump

[Irish_Dem]

37. Why aren't the project and department managers managing employees?

Why aren't they getting the weekly reviews?

[tinrobot]

38. Uh ...highest performing tech software company in the world?

Dude, Twitter is not a software company. It's a media company.

Learn the difference.