Twitter employees quit en masse due to ‘threats’ from Elon Musk
2022.11.18 15:13
Twitter employees quit en masse due to ‘threats’ from Elon Musk
Budrigannews.com – It is estimated that hundreds of Twitter Inc employees have decided to quit the troubled social media company following a deadline from new owner Elon Musk on Thursday.
The departure underscored the unwillingness of some of Twitter’s nearly 3,000 employees to stay in a company where Musk has previously laid off half the workforce, including top management, and ruthlessly changed the culture to highlight the long hours and intense pacing.
Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to say he was not worried about resigning, saying “the best people will stay.”
The billionaire owner also said, “”We’ve always hit another high Twitter usage.”..”Without giving further details.
Musk met with several high-level employees on Thursday and tried to convince them, according to a recently retired employee who has been in contact with current employees and colleagues on Twitter.
The company also informed employees that it would close its offices on Monday and cut off access to the badge, according to 2 sources. According to sources, security personnel began kicking several employees out of the office on Thursday evening.
At least 4 Twitter employees from 110 continents have announced their decision to retire in a public Twitter post reviewed by Reuters, but each resignation independently confirmed that about 15 employees have announced their intention to stay in a company with a lot of advertising sales.
In Twitter’s internal chat tool, more than 500 employees wrote a farewell message on Thursday, a source familiar with the note said.
According to a survey by workplace app Blind, which allows employees to verify via their workplace email address and share information anonymously, 180 percent of the 42 “active” employees are in the workplace.
A quarter said they chose to stay “reluctantly” and only 7% of survey participants clicked “Yes, sorry, stay.”
The exact number of employees intended to leave the company could not be established immediately.
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.
Platform stability
The departure includes several engineers who are responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages, and has raised concerns about the stability of the platform amid the loss of employees.
On Thursday night, the version of the Twitter app used by employees was released to anyone familiar with the issue who felt the public version of Twitter was at risk of being destroyed overnight.
“If it breaks, there is no one left to fix things in many areas,” said the person, who declined the name for fear of retaliation.”
Reports of twitter outages rose sharply on Thursday night from less than 50 to about 350 reports, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks website and app outages.
The former employee said in a private chat with about 50 Twitter employees that about 40 had decided to retire.
In addition, Twitter Private Slack Group for current and former employees announced a new initiative entitled “Voluntary layoffs” for about 360 people to share their knowledge of Slack Group.
In another survey of visually impaired people, we asked staff to estimate the percentage of people who left twitter based on their perceptions. More than half of respondents estimate that at least 50% of employees leave.
“To build innovative Twitter2.0 in the future and be successful in a competitive world, you have to be very tough.”
The mail had asked the staff to click “Yes” if they wanted to stay. According to the email, those who did not respond by 5 p.m. on Thursday are believed to have resigned and received a retirement package.
As the deadline approaches, employees are rushing to figure out what to do.
A retired employee told Reuters that the Twitter team decided to join the company and leave.
Blue Hearts and greeting emojis flooded Twitter and its internal chat rooms on Thursday, the second time in two weeks that a Twitter employee was fired.
Notable starting points included Tess Rinearson, who was given the task of creating a crypto team on Twitter. I tweeted “Blue Heart” and “Greeting emoji”.
In an apparent blow to Musk’s call for employees to be “hardcore,” the Twitter profiles of several engineers who left on Thursday described themselves as “softcore engineers” or “hardcore ex-engineers.”
When the resignation began, Musk joked on Twitter.
“How do you make good luck on social media?”He tweeted. “Start with the big one.”
