Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter (edit: deal has been finalized)

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 :lol:
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.
 
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Lmaoooooooooooooo
 
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

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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. :lol:
 
Elon went full mask off...


Elon Musk called the media racist after a cartoonist he regularly engages with on Twitter faced blowback for encouraging White Americans to avoid Black people.
While discussing a Rasmussen Reports poll in which almost half of Black respondents disagreed or were unsure about the statement that it’s OK to be White, Scott Adams, creator of the long-running Dilbert comic strip, said during his YouTube show last week that his best advice for White Americans “is to get the hell away from Black people.”

Newspaper publishers, including Gannett Co.’s USA Today Network, denounced the comments and said they’ll no longer publish Adams’ cartoons, which satirize office culture.

Musk waded into the controversy, first by responding to Adams, who quote-tweeted a Washington Post columnist encouraged by the newspaper dropping Dilbert. “What exactly are they complaining about?” Musk asked in a post he later deleted.


When another account on the social network Musk owns spoke out against coverage of Adams, Musk replied: “The media is racist.”

“For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians,”
Musk said in another post. “Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.”

Musk unsettled many Black users of Twitter Inc. last year by repeatedly saying past management had gone too far in moderating content on the platform, and had infringed on free speech as a result. Shortly after taking over the company, he made fun of #StayWoke t-shirts he found at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters that dated back to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Tesla Inc. is facing a lawsuit by the California Civil Rights Department that accuses the company of engaging in a pattern of racial harassment and bias at its electric-vehicle factory. Tesla published a blog post responding to the allegations before the agency filed suit in February 2022.

In June, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a cause finding against Tesla that closely parallels California’s allegations, according to the company. Tesla said last month that it was in the process of setting up a mandatory mediation with the federal agency.
 


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.
 
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.
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.
 
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.

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 |l No one was pissed at me though because I did the right thing and had the data to prove it.
 
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 |l No one was pissed at me though because I did the right thing and had the data to prove it.
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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