https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/21/elon-musk-went-on-a-firing-frenzy-at-twitter-now-hes-paying-for-it
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The 7nm layoffs caused more people to quit than anticipated, expect the same but worst.
Not in the same league by any stretch of imagination. Elon started and built a massive. Innovative tech company and in the process became a very very rich man. Tom, at best a mediocre manager somehow worked his way up to the very top of a third rate semi manufacturing company and has been living up there happily ever after
TC is not a good business leader. Never was. This guy trips over his own feet at every turn. He clearly uses a fake until we make policy and also try’s to copy or mimic what others have done without fully understanding the logic and ration of why they did it. That’s how we get these weird twisted Pygmy mutated systems and policies at Globalfoundries. They start off as copies of what Intel or apple or Google is going or implementing, but then no one knows how they actually operate and function and a year or two later it’s turned into severely deformed and warped version of what it was trying to mimic. So many things at Gf are like this. And unfortunately it’s usually us who felt the brunt or pain of their unbridled experiment
Bottom line - they don’t know what they are doing but boy they like to act and pretend that they do but history and track record speaks for itself
TC needs a hard lesson
The important thing from the article:
Two lessons here.
First, corporations that regard employees only as costs to be cut rather than as assets to be nourished can make humongous mistakes. Elon Musk is Exhibit 1.
Second, where corporations view employees as costs, the traditional way for employees to flex their muscle is to strike, thereby temporarily closing factories and stopping the machines