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"Downsizing" became "Right Sizing" and then "Bright Sizing".

"Bright Sizing" being when you make your workplace unpleasant and then offer redundancies to everyone. The bright people leave.

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Yea, this is such a huge brain drain. Twitter has some of the brightest people working there. They came up with a really nice framework (Bootstrap) to make sense of the mess that is HTML+CSS. Easy for beginners to dive into, and flexible enough for professionals to make really nice websites.

What is Musk thinking, like these workers are literally propping the company up. To treat them like this is, just wow.

I get why companies were so fearful of that though, as so many things rely on 1 or 2 key people toiling to get something to function at a normal level (due to tech debt or overload or whatever).

Looks like the plan is to get rid of as many costly workers as possible, and than wait and use the looming recession fears and overall layoffs in the industry in their favour by hiring equally competent workers for less pay. Could also be a plan to drive down stock prices, buy them back, and later sell them again - Musk has done with Tesla before. (Or maybe we are all being kind to Elon for his stupidity ..).

Twitter is private. There is no stock to drive down.

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