So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Big problem here for the remaining staff who want to run is that their salaries are way above and beyond what they could get elsewhere, especially now, a year ago having Twitter on your cv would have almost guaranteed you the pick of jobs, not so much now I’d imagine, in IT timing is everything, down to when you leave, how long you stay etc.

The other point which was touched on was that a lot of people weren’t working very hard and will go kicking and screaming into an environment where they have to work, although by the sounds of it staying is automatically going to push you into that environment.

3 months salary as severance is Shite by Irish standards and I don’t think too many people would sign a release of claims for that kind of money, couple of things need to happen if Musk wants people out he needs to announce voluntary redundancy to get sign ups and decent severance, ie 6 weeks for every year along those lines, the current 3 months if you’ve been with the company a year or 10 years is unfair to the people there the longest they’ll stick their heels in.

failing the voluntary route they’ll hope for unfair dismissals and bring a case, 2 years Twitter salary tax free will answer a lot of problems and allow them to take a lower paying job, that’s the way it’s going to play out, my money is on unfair dismissals because Musk won’t like the idea of being ‘blackmailed’ by voluntary.

Good thread on the issues that could arise from Musk's 24 hour ultimatum email.

None of that has to do with the fact that both loyalty and respect have to be earned by one's deeds, not by the amount of money that goes into one's pocket, because a better rate of pay can often be found elsewhere if one looks hard enough.

I'm not at all sure that you understand what loyalty actually is or how it comes about. But here's a tip, it has nothing to do with money.

Fire half the work-force, then give the other half 24 hours notice to work twice as hard or be fired.

From the many comments I've read from people under Elon over the years, it's clear he despises people who "don't work as hard as him". I have no doubts he is getting a perverse pleasure from purging this company regardless of whether it stays in business or not.

He can largely get away with this in the US, but he won't be able to do anything with the Irish operations that goes against Irish or EU employment law.

Speaking of things like loyalty, I used to work for a company called Stream Global Services (now a part of Convergys), and they did an employee survey with one of the questions being "Are you proud to work for Stream?". It got a very low return on proud employees.

So we were all brought into meetings, and the head of HR for our office asked about it, so I told her that nobody cares who Stream are. They're a company that runs call centres, who pay low wages. Why would you be proud of that? If asked where you work, you answer that you do support/sales/training for Client X, not Stream. She said she was proud of working for them, so I said that no, you're proud of being head of HR in an office that employs over 300 people from fifteen different countries. Proud of your own accomplishments, but not proud to work for that specific company.

After those meetings where I'm sure others said similar, they started doing quite a bit more charity related things, so maybe they got the message.

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I mean everyone dedicated to the same goal does make the goal a lot easier so I get why companies try and foster it. It gets more hours in jobs, more focus at work etc if everyone buys into what the company is working for. The main difference is that for some reason those in the US believe that it is to their benefit to join in on this.

Companies will match salaries to the market so it makes no difference if they make or lose an extra billion to workers. A large issue is that the success is disconnected from the workers so unless a company hits very hard times there is no real benefit to drive a companies success.

We will see what effect corporate culture will have with twitter. It seems like Elon will trial and error till he reaches what twitter was doing 2 months ago. So losing a few billion but remaining solvent in the end as he offers the same product that was there a few months ago.

Twitter 2.0, 1.0 was bad enough.

...a solid legal argument of why his creditors should stick with him, by the looks of it!

How long could Twitter stay live for if it was to lose say another 50% of it staff tonight at 5pm ET.

They would be down to around 1700 or so staff then however would they be the right staff in the right areas to keep the show on the road.