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[Kid Berwyn]

13. How Elon Musk's Twitter reign magnified his brutal management style

Excerpt from The Guardian…

But some of what he’s done has gone beyond what has been reported or trickled into the public arena at Musk’s other companies. Part of that is by design. After a series of employee leaks, Tesla required its employees to “renew their vows” and sign new confidentiality agreements in 2018 that barred them from speaking with the media. The confidentiality agreement was the subject of a legal challenge from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for violating workers’ rights.

At Twitter, where the culture before Musk allowed for some degree of public pushback or critiques of company policy, employees – or now former employees – are also seeing their voices stifled. Several employees who publicly tweeted corrections or pushed back on assertions Musk made were fired. In one case, Musk publicly announced the termination of an engineer named Eric Frohnhoefer, tweeting “he’s fired” in response to Frohnhoefer’s tweet correcting an assessment Musk made about why the site was so slow. Musk later deleted the tweet. The Tesla CEO then made light of the terminations. Musk is also reportedly firing employees who’ve criticized him on Slack, the third-party messaging service employees use internally.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/19/elon-musk-management-style-twitter-tesla-spacex

We got to tax the Barbarian out of the Plutocrat. Thanks for grokking, Cha!