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PatSeg

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37. "demonstrate your contributions to the team"???

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Nov 24, 2022, 08:26 PM

Nov 2022

There is no "team", it is all about Musk all the time.

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Musk fired about 50 Twitter engineers last night (happy Thanksgiving!) and sent warnings to others [View all] highplainsdem Nov 2022 OP

May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve. niyad Nov 2022 #1

Aye and I refuse to be an enabler and closed my account out as soon as he let Trump back. cstanleytech Nov 2022 #29

He's just juicing the best he can get from them - with fear tactics - before termination bucolic_frolic Nov 2022 #2

Seems like a hildegaard28 Nov 2022 #3

Good point. Delphinus Nov 2022 #25

But other tech companies are also laying off people. Xolodno Nov 2022 #33

I'm betting whoever did the Code Reviews ThoughtCriminal Nov 2022 #4

How can he tell if a sample of code is satisfactory? haele Nov 2022 #5

The last part of your entry Escurumbele Nov 2022 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author haele Nov 2022 #6

Harsh Demovictory9 Nov 2022 #7

I thought a couple of days ago Twitter was getting creaky, tweets unavailable became available Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #8

The problem with some tweets temporarily showing as "unavailable" and then reappearing highplainsdem Nov 2022 #10

This should make hiring the best engineers moonscape Nov 2022 #9

The sadistic asshole loves to torture people. dalton99a Nov 2022 #11

What does "great at writing software" even mean? Yavin4 Nov 2022 #12

It's impossible! Aussie105 Nov 2022 #13

He's up to destroying Twitter. EndlessWire Nov 2022 #14

He makes judgements based on stuff that he is not schooled in. Aussie105 Nov 2022 #16

I'd go with "insufficient proof of loyalty" localroger Nov 2022 #15

Move along, nothing to see here. Aussie105 Nov 2022 #18

im waiting for some engineers to start sabotaging the twitter code moonshinegnomie Nov 2022 #17

No need. Aussie105 Nov 2022 #19

Maybe some one outside the norm might do that but Dan Nov 2022 #27

Who cares? Zuckerberg fired 11,000. Treefrog Nov 2022 #20

Good question. Aussie105 Nov 2022 #21

11,000 total employees (not just engineers) out of a workforce more than ten times the size of highplainsdem Nov 2022 #23

Eventually he's going to be assaulted Johnny2X2X Nov 2022 #22

He has truly gone mad with power. Initech Nov 2022 #24

And Delphinus Nov 2022 #26

They should get exactly what the laid-off people get relayerbob Nov 2022 #28

the WARN Act should entitle them to 60 days pay, as this is part of a mass layoff event. uncle ray Nov 2022 #36

i don't think bad code was ever a problem at twitter samsingh Nov 2022 #30

It was in the beginning localroger Nov 2022 #32

I've said this earlier, and I'll repeat myself. Emrys Nov 2022 #34

The real question becomes, can the company be run.... Xolodno Nov 2022 #35

"demonstrate your contributions to the team"??? PatSeg Nov 2022 #37

He's in over his head Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2022 #38

+1 n/t area51 Nov 2022 #40

This is more legit than most of the other terminations. Renew Deal Nov 2022 #39