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I don't get how hung up on the LOC firing people got.

If you want to fire 3500 people you obviously don't care that much about false negatives.

I would not be surprised if it turned out that it's much more economical to fire based on LOC and then rehire a few good people than to go through thousands of conversations and try to do it "the right way". Especially since Elon can be sure most of the Twitter workforce is hostile to him anyway.

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If you fire people based on LOC just because it's convenient for you (the employer), the good employees won't come back. They'll take a better-paying job at a place that doesn't treat them as disposable or try to screw with their lives.

If they find better paying works. For what I know they have been fired, therefore they are not in a dominant position to negotiate anything, esp if they have student/home loan monthly and family to feed.

They are not any kind of prey. They are more thousand of white rabbit who are going to compete in the next few months to find job when all major Company in the industry are holding recruitment or even worse are also firing their own employee.

I don't think the plan was to re-hire good people from the same pool that got fired. And I honestly don't expect Elon's Twitter to have any problem hiring good new people (even in the absolute worst case scenario there is a huge untapped pool of non-left-wing programmers who would previously never work at Twitter because of the culture of that place).

> fire and rehire

That'll cost you dearly. If the guy you're jerking around like that has any sense of pride, he won't come back for the same salary he was satisfied with before getting fired.

The big issue is going to be resentment and lack of trust on side of people who stayed. That will harm much more then firing wrong people.

If you're some midsized average company it's probably fine. If you're one of the tech giants scraping for top talent, it's going to be a massive dent in all your future hiring.

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