Things are really good now. With all the dead weight gone we are really productive and having a great time.

Twitter sued for not paying rent on San Francisco HQ since Elon Musk takeover Twitter is being sued by its landlord for ducking out on rent for its downtown San Francisco headquarters, where the platform reportedly went through heavy cost-cutting... — read more 

I am already seriously thinking about leaving.

https://www.thelayoff.com/tesla

It seems like not many people who post here, work or have worked for twitter. It also oddly gets less traffic and posts than my company's feed, despite the amount news the twitter layoffs get.

Twitter is fighting a lawsuit by a group of employees whose layoffs take effect in the new year. The employees, part of mass layoffs since Elon Musk took over, want more than a month's severance. Twitter's lawyers argue that many employees... — read more 

It was so entertaining watching Musk dig himself deeper and deeper into a ho-e and I truly hope we see more of the same in the next year. It does make me wonder, though, if Twitter will even still exist by the end of the next year considering how... — read more 

the usual suspects... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/elon-musk-warns-against-margin-debt-on-risk-of-market-mass-panic/ar-AA15DpC7?li=BBnb7Kz

"Twitter is like mega catnip. If you cross catnip with crack, that's what Twitter is — catnip crack. Any tiny little thing at Twitter is front-page news. It's going to get outsized... — read more 

Additional Twitter employees were terminated Thursday as part of ongoing, rolling layoffs under new owner Elon Musk, including from the public policy and media and entertainment teams, according to tweets from affected employees... — read more 

I hear yes others say no, which is it?

Do you think Elon will continue as the interim CEO after January?

They can become billionaires and buy their own whims. Ohh wait!

Elon is the best.

Twitter has this week been accused by 100 former staffers of various legal violations stemming from Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of the company. The allegations against Twitter include targeting women disproportionately during Elon Musk’s... — read more 

A team of former Twitter employees is working on a new social media platform. They plan to launch sometime in early 2023. This is what I was hoping would happen. Now we need to see if it takes off. I think this is the best decision they could have... — read more 

What's with it. The technical leader gets agitated and confused regarding a question on the Twitter stack. Wow. What a clown.

What was the excuse again for not organizing?

The People have spoken....bow wow.. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/there-musk-be-some-mistake-elon-disputes-result-of-twitter-poll-telling-him-to-step-down/

Am certainly not a fan of PT, but this 2015 conversation at the Aspen Institute is worth listening to for historical context. He talks about failure in his professional life. He talks about the mania of elite college degrees (some of you may have... — read more 

A group of former employees suing Elon Musk’s Twitter scored an early win Wednesday when a judge ordered the company to inform any laid-off staffers of the pending lawsuit. The move ensures workers will be better informed before they are required to... — read more 

#UAW https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499249339671089152 https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084366833/elon-musk-dares-united-autoworkers-to-try-to-unionize-tesla

The amount of burnt ochre-nosing right now is pretty amazing. The Senator Rugburn of Loo-weezi-ana honking his bike ho-n for EM. The Senior Art Critic of the New Yawker calling it a Shakespearian drama. You can hardly find a kardashian article out... — read more 

Yeah, I know the "they took my jerb" xenobhopes aren't going to like this, but I don't really care what they think. Many of my colleagues early in my career were on H1B visas. Back in the day they weren't even transferable, so you had to stay with... — read more 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-elon-musk-severance_n_6399046fe4b0c2814647e679 The article references the New York TImes (paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html But the relevant part is... — read more 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citizen-kane-with-kane-and-devin-nunes/id1460600818?i=1000590094657

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/laid-off-tech-workers-are-being-wooed-by-the-federal-government.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzkreBMHUFY

Melon worlds #1 negotiator!

"We live in an economic system that is unsustainable, unjust, and exploitative. While many of us in academia and the thought industry have known this for decades, those with greater wisdom have known for centuries. Techies and disrupters think it can... — read more 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/musk-threatens-sue-twitter-employees-161222628.html He's gonna let you have it, if you snitch.

Like all hurricanes things are calm again at HQ.

It's a miserable feeling to return to the company after being laid off, but I would probably accept the offer.

Of course, I would have preferred to have found a new job before that, rather than find myself in the unenviable situation of looking for new opportunities when I no longer have a job, but I definitely intended to leave Twitter even before the... — read more 

The layoff.com censors all comments! You will see the narrative they want you to see!!!!

With the reduction in workforce you have to see the trickle down effect as vendors who supported the cafeteria and janitorial services will also be greatly impacted. These hard workers will have a more challenging time finding new work. So its not... — read more 

Impossible at Twitter? Or how about a union? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Take_(2004_film) https://www.ueunion.org/org_steps.html

All the great engineers won't worry because they can get hundreds of offers from any company in the universe. Unless the "amazing, hardworking and competent" part isn't true... 😬

I wish that colleagues who were laid off have already started getting new offers, but unfortunately, I think many of them will have to wait a long time to get a new opportunity. Those with whom I am still in contact are quite desperate on the job... — read more