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Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.

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Layoffs are always morale-killers. Twitter isn't particularly special in this regard, and if Twitter found a way to lay off 50% within 3 days to a boost of morale to the remaining workforce that would be finally be the one truly innovative accomplishment its done, lol.

The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.

Oh yeah, not surprised. I'm just griping that there's a lot of assuming going on in here and it's worth, like, checking.

I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round.

Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..

Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.

Stock options in a non public company are only as valuable as the boss decides to make them.

They do work as toilet paper though.

Even the biggest Musk fanboy at Twitter isn't immune to the morale hit from a doubling or trebling of their workload because their team was cut in half from layoffs. What consolation is the company "getting back on course" if you've got to work 70+ hour weeks for the next several months. No time off, sleeping at your desk, never seeing family, and certainly no holiday time off. At the end you now work for a Musk company so your compensation will lag the SV mean.

I feel bad for anyone in that position that feels happy. That's just a really sad Stockholm syndrome at that point.

Yes, I cannot wait for the chance to take my own company's legal liability onto my own shoulders so I can prove how faithful I am to my new leader!!

Blind has a sentiment analysis called 'Pulse' where verified employees answer survey Q's about their company. Employee morale has driven off a cliff.

How many are left? /s

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