80hr+ in-office work weeks with no equity and the threat of being instantly fired for appearing disloyal in Slack or correcting the CEO... sounds fun!
Also maybe don't say your employer is a "petulant man child" in Slack or otherwise undermine them and you'll be fine. The idea that an employer should keep people that actively dislike like him or her is insane.
They're a private company now.
What is the value prop for a talented, high productivity employee to work at Twitter? The management hates its employees, seemingly hated the product, and doesn't even understand the business that he bought.
What's the upside for employees? There's a reason people were hanging up exactly at 5pm as Musk was giving his pitch to try to keep employees from bailing. He's offering a shit sandwich and he's not even good at selling it.
However if you believe in Musk's vision (is there one!?) and he's desperate he might throw stocks around and then a pivot unexpectedly might work out and a IPO might be lucrative ... but I wouldn't bet on it. All I said: stock exists and can be distributed.
There are lots of reason to own stock besides speculative growth. Taking part of profit as dividend is the most obvious reason.
It's not insane. Only keeping people that kiss your ass is how you get echo chambers and lose touch with reality.
I don't buy into the notion that the chief engineer of SpaceX, which puts rockets in space, and CEO of Tesla, which efficiently produces electric cars, doesn't know how to stay in touch with reality. The evidence is in direct conflict.
That's the example I'm thinking of, and I would guess that even if that dev fully expected to be terminated for making that correction they viewed it as a price worth paying to spare their professional reputation.
Think of it like this: I cannot name probably more than a handful of Google abandoned projects. But whenever Google announces a new project I'm happy to meme about how it will be inevitably abandoned. It's just something I "know" despite not hunting down some weird statistic of exactly what percentage of Google products to market survive after X years.
Reputation isn't a science. It isn't even that well correlated with truth.
Also don't factually and politely correct your CEO in a reply on Twitter when he lies.
Twitter is a private company now. Not sure if you missed the news that this guy named Elon Musk bought the whole company.
> Also maybe don't say your employer is a "petulant man child" in Slack or otherwise undermine them and you'll be fine. The idea that an employer should keep people that actively dislike like him or her is insane.
I think the issue most people are taking with this is that the same standards aren't being applied. Elon is publicly deriding his employees, and then firing them when they respond in kind.
If you want to change the world, are ready to push yourself, work with the most dedicated people, it is.
It’s a place for very few. I would really like to work in one of his company, but I don’t think I have the stamina for it.
Stop drinking the kool-aid.
- Break up the cartel that is mass media + tech giants + democrats
- The control on the narrative determine what people think, how they votes, where the world goes.
- Making this open and transparent will disrupt many entrenched interests.
Huge potential
What get promoted, what get shut down.
It’s clear for most people moderately conservative.
We can agree to disagree. For my part I think we will see massive changes for the better, time will tell either way.
Nah.
1. Work long "hardcore" hours for no increase in pay merely to dig Musk out of the financial hole he put himself in.
2. Clone existing services. Musk's grand ideas for Twitter 2.0 are simply to clone WeChat/TikTok/YouTube/Instagram/OnlyFans.
Yikes.
Maybe for SpaceX.
For Tesla 5 years ago.
For Twitter 10 years ago.
But now "change the world" is only true for SpaceX.