Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others
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No need. Contractors like me have a 1-man LLC/Ltd anyway.
Maybe they can all get together and start their own company.
That's life of a contractor though. I was one affected - like you start at a day's notice - you finish too. You just move onto the next one job and so on. Not as big a deal as people make out (people who probably never worked as a contractor).
He probably should not have been so critical.
Getting rid of titles which include safety, inclusion, diversity, compliance, etc.
One manager just posted in Slack: “one of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows"