Adrianna TanNov 16, 2022
Daniel Thorngren

Nobody defending Elon's management decisions should ever be in charge of people.

If you fire people for disagreeing, you surround yourself with yes-men and liars.

If you evaluate software engineers on lines of code, you'll reward inefficiency and code bloat.

If you push people to work 12 hours a day, work quality will suffer and turnover will (quite rightly!) be huge.

This is going exactly as badly as he deserves.

Nov 16, 2022 at 5:23pmWeb
Show thread[AF]2050Nov 16, 2022

@dpthorngren I sincerely believe everyone should literally leave, no matter how Elon Musk's gonna get worse, even the "nicer" people.

They even fucked up 2FA... they are purging even more staff.... i swear that i can no longer take their stance on remaining on Twitter so seriously.

Show threadMatunosNov 16, 2022
@dpthorngren @AleF2050 and he's now given them an easy out (except for those on work visas): simply don't click "yes" on his stupid form
Show threadMatunosNov 16, 2022
@dpthorngren @AleF2050 he's gonna end up losing a bunch of people while paying their severances, and the remaining workforce will be asked to work like a startup while supporting an established huge codebase
Show threadDaniel ThorngrenNov 16, 2022
@matunos @AleF2050 I can't imagine NOT taking that route for anybody that hasn't gotten fo fired with severance some other way
Show threadMatunosNov 16, 2022
@AleF2050 @dpthorngren people on work visas are in a tight bind on, because the consequences of not finding another job in 60 days are so much higher; but for those not under such constraints, I agree.
Show threadGaschNov 16, 2022

@dpthorngren so many managers and execs behave in exactly this way.

It's capitalism and the myth of meritocracy. The problem is that the system is designed for these people to believe that they earned a special place among humanity.

We need to move beyond capitalism.