- Feb 11, 2008
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Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter (edit: deal has been finalized)
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- Mar 27, 2004
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also Twitter has been down for the last half hour.
waiting for the experts in here to come lecture us about how you don't need all those employees to run a website.
waiting for the experts in here to come lecture us about how you don't need all those employees to run a website.
MakeNTGreatAgain
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alot of people i know are praising elon for bringing such clarity to the tech world and firing ppl is good cuz they were just unuseful employees 
- Mar 27, 2004
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yes, my cousin has a friend who works with a dude whose niece delivers packages at Twitter HQ and she can confirm that Twitter servers can run without employees, Musk is a genius, vaccines are microchips, electric cars solve everything, Kamala is the one calling all the shots, and jrose5 deserves to be back on NT.alot of people i know are praising elon for bringing such clarity to the tech world and firing ppl is good cuz they were just unuseful employees
mplsdunk
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- May 25, 2004
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I’m glad your cousin’s friend who works with a dude who’s niece delivers packages to twitter can finally see the truth. 
Elon is a genius
Elon is a genius
elpablo21
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Lmaoooooooooooooo
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You guys realize you're allowed to just not use Twitter right?
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$15 a month for Meta verified? Zuckerberg about to clean up.
Let’s see if he gets the same backlash for copying Twitter while charging twice as much.
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Anyone else notice that “bookmark” and “copy link” keep switching?
been clicking stuff to post on here and I’ve ended up bookmarking some shh because those 2 have started swapping
been clicking stuff to post on here and I’ve ended up bookmarking some shh because those 2 have started swapping
jpzx
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Yes I bookmarked a couple tweets today I meant to hit Copy Link, we were trained like Dwight and the altoids where these links are.
- Jul 20, 2009
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I mean, he ran from south africa
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mplsdunk
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I work with hella South Africans. Those dudes make your average conservative look like Bernie.
- May 27, 2017
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Reminds me of this article I read yesterday. Dude spent his whole life deporting people at the border only to find out he was illegal as well.
He deported thousands of people, then learned he was undocumented | CNN
Raul Rodriguez spent years helping the US enforce its immigration laws at the border. Then he learned his life was built on a lie.
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I never understand how someone can aggressively support layoffs. I have done everything I can to avoid them for my time. Often time it ends up cyclical and you end up needing to hire in due time. Except you can’t get those same folks so you hire new ones who have associated costs to train, onboard, get to a high level of efficiency, etc.
Sad.
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What goes into the decision on who gets laid off? Last round from the company I work for the decision came from the top (CIO's office) and they told them exactly who to let go which was a surprise.
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How big is your company or specific group/organization? In the minor case I witnessed (I was told this information after I took over the group so I didn’t participate) it was a group of 175 folks and they needed to get rid of ~30-35. The person in charge of the group wasn’t competent enough to know everyone so the 6-7 managers underneath her each evaluated their teams, starting with bottom performers based on the prior years performance rating and those working on the least critical projects to group and suggested names from their team. Seniority wasn’t eem a factor in this case. They all got together and came to a consensus on who would go.
A few years ago I was actually involved in overseeing a massive layoff (it actually was kind of warranted - not because of cost cutting) for an organization of 12K but this specific group was like 6K and they were going to cut in half. They came up with the 3K using a combination of performance, overtime charged and seniority then gave it to the managers to approve until they eventually got to the 3K after the managers made approved substitutes with justifications.
Fortunately, in the one I was involved in, I got them to chill but our problem persisted then when COVID hit was officially a wrap
No one was pissed at me though because I did the right thing and had the data to prove it.
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The best thing about all this is that I never again have to take an "Elon Musk is a business genius" argument seriously
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- Apr 30, 2010
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It's an org of about ~10k. The weird thing is not a chance they knew who was who, and didn't inform the managers ahead of time but made exact choices.How big is your company or specific group/organization? In the minor case I witnessed (I was told this information after I took over the group so I didn’t participate) it was a group of 175 folks and they needed to get rid of ~30-35. The person in charge of the group wasn’t competent enough to know everyone so the 6-7 managers underneath her each evaluated their teams, starting with bottom performers based on the prior years performance rating and those working on the least critical projects to group and suggested names from their team. Seniority wasn’t eem a factor in this case. They all got together and came to a consensus on who would go.
A few years ago I was actually involved in overseeing a massive layoff (it actually was kind of warranted - not because of cost cutting) for an organization of 12K but this specific group was like 6K and they were going to cut in half. They came up with the 3K using a combination of performance, overtime charged and seniority then gave it to the managers to approve until they eventually got to the 3K after the managers made approved substitutes with justifications.
Fortunately, in the one I was involved in, I got them to chill but our problem persisted then when COVID hit was officially a wrap
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Right!!! For the initial 3K, and really the whole thing, we let the VP of that group handle it and that was the formula he used for starters but ultimately the managers made final selections.
A C-Level executive hand picking cuts for layoffs several levels below is shady AF to me, if I am being honest.
