“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk wrote in the all-staff email. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
This is so fucking cringy.
Is he willing to pay for those extra hours?
Many companies promote a work culture where heroic employees are supposed do long hours for free just because good employees are passionate about their job. That’s just exploitation.
Surely the grand objective of, as he puts it:
build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world
means it’s just as much worth it for him to pay overtime and/or hire more people as it is for others to “work long hours at high intensity”
Unless, of course, he was bullshitting and being an hypocrite.
Shouldn’t it be an X 2.0? Did he just deadname his own company?
Sounds like by his own grading scale he is a dismal failure not worth what his title gets paid.
I mean he renamed Twitter to X. It is assumed his actions will be cringy.
It would still take 375000 Rooneys to deplete Musk’s wealth.
Kill the techno-feudal lords.
I’m really curious about the profile of who is still working there and their reasons for being there. Not speculating. Just the facts.
H1B hostages
A lot of them are immigrants who will be deported if they lose the job. I know I’d rather live in either California or Texas than a lot of places in India. (Especially these days, if the immigrant is a Muslim.)
So slaves?
Essentially, yes. But slaves who apparently feel like the alternative is worse. Obviously, that doesn’t justify anything, it just makes it even more depressing.
There was a never a slave who thought the alternative was better. That’s how slavery exists.
If they thought the alternative was better, they would leave. They do not have to work at Twitter if they don’t want to. But they are also desperate to stay away from where they came from. They’re not literally chattel slaves because they get paid and they are allowed to quit, but they are being put in a very bad position where they are essentially forced to keep working at Twitter if they don’t want a life of poverty, and now oppression if they’re Muslim, in Mumbai.
What the hell are you talking about? I’m pretty sure the millions of people the Romans enslaved did not volunteer for a better life but were in fact brutalized through violence and abducted from their homes.
In 2022 there were some stories of how people on work visas were unable to jump ship while others were fleeing en masse. And now after all the tech layoffs in the USA, I imagine that finding another company to sponsor their visa, has become a lot harder still. So that’s one group still working there: people who will be deported if they lose their job.
I have never worked there (or any other major tech company) but if I had a job there, I wouldn’t give it up until I’d found another job. Perhaps the people there aren’t going crazy at the job hunt and still just haven’t found another job they want.
It’s really easy to think “all the layoffs are over and I made it” and “job hunting is painful, I don’t want to do it today” and just coast for a long time.
I’m sure every awful thing he does spurs another effort for job hunting, but unless the job actually makes them work harder or fires them, it probably doesn’t change much for them.
Also, they get paid a lot more than I do, and sometimes it’s worth the pain to keep raking in that cash.
That’s the only reason to upvote anything musk.
Glad he lost.
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