Joey de Villa 🪗Nov 15, 2022

Intentional or not, getting fired by publicly contradicting Elon was a brilliant move.

Under normal circumstances, contradicting the boss in a public forum is a bad idea. BUT THESE ARE NOT NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2022/11/15/intentional-or-not-getting-fired-by-publicly-contradicting-elon-was-a-brilliant-move/

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Intentional or not, getting fired by publicly contradicting Elon was a brilliant move : Global Nerdy

The whole mess started with this Tweet: This should have been something like “We’re working on Android performance issues, and you should see improvements in the coming weeks/months,” but that’s not Elon’s style. This was a combination of management by shame and a little red meat for his fanboys. I myself have delivered working software […]

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@AccordionGuy Reading the developer’s time line; he had tweeted days before that he was going to try not to tweet something that would get himself fired. Can entirely understand why his patience snapped: it would be hard to go to future interviews and be quizzed about a former boss who was so badly informed, so publicly. It’s one of the more toxic elements of SM, some people believe getting fired is appropriate punishment for tweeting out of turn. Musk seems worryingly malleable.
Nov 23, 2022 at 11:28amWeb