Ondertussen gaat de herstructurering binnen Twitter gewoon door en vliegen diverse employees er met lanceersnelheid uit. Terecht ook wel.

Moet je medelijden hebben met de lieden die je zoveel ergernis hebben bezorgd door hun schrikbewind aangaande wat je zeggen wilde, maar van hen niet mocht? Het opschudden van het Twitter-hoofdkwartier blijkt inderdaad een hoogstnodige daad geweest.

A good measure of the value of an employee to a company is if their absence makes things more difficult for everyone else, or their absence is barely noticed.  If an employee makes no difference and adds no value then there is no point in keeping them around.
Twitter is quickly becoming a blaring example of this issue.  Alleged leaks from within the company suggest that most employees under previous management barely worked and are devout “communists” with a hatred of free speech.  The leaks also claim that Twitter employees were far more concerned with censoring conservative voices than doing their jobs.

Het nieuwe ethos binnen het bedrijf moet sterk gaan verschillen van wat er tot nog toe gebruikelijk was, aldus Elon Musk:

The changing of the guard at Twitter is officially complete.
For snowflake employees at the company that weren’t ready to grasp that fact, Elon Musk likely made it abundantly clear this week when he released an ultimatum to employees, demanding they commit to a new “hardcore” version of Twitter or leave the company with severance pay, WaPo reported. 
“If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below,” an email to employees said. Employees were also made to “sign a pledge” to stay on and work for the company, the report says.
The pledge was to be signed by 5PM eastern on Thursday, or else employees would be terminated and receive 3 months of severance pay.
Twitter “will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk said in his email, adding: “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

Deze gebruikelijke gang van zaken is voor andere dan hardwerkende mensen moeilijk voorstelbaar, maar kwam neer op wat je je voorstelt van hoe D66 intern opereert:

From comments made on social media by employees since Musk’s takeover, it appears that these rumors are correct.
For many years now Twitter has operated less like a company and more like a cult compound for leftist ideologues, with free lunches, yoga rooms, smoothie bars, wine bars, expresso bars, and minimal work buffered by pointless meetings and near zero productivity. The company runs a collectivist daycare for overgrown children; 7500 of them along with 5500 outside contractors.

Hoe geschift was Twitter tot dusver? Behoorlijk:

De noodzaak van een grote schoonmaak kwam direct na het aantreden van Musk pregnant aan de oppervlakte.

Musk fired at least 3500 primary staff members and it is also recently reported that he has purged at least 4500 outside contractors, many of them moderators tasked with filtering “misinformation”.  Interestingly, Twitter users have not noticed much of a difference in terms of functionality for the platform despite the mass layoffs. The only difference has been the ability to speak more freely.
Initial reports of the firings led people to speculate that Musk’s actions might be “heavy handed” and that, surely, a lot of employees have nothing to do with the politically motivated side of the platform.  However, employee comments suggest that an internal agenda to sabotage the site is underway, justified by purely political ideals, as well as angry reactions to basic responsibilities such as showing up to work for 40 hours a week.  Musk’s call for free speech on the platform has also elicited a flurry of vitriol, not only from former Twitter management but also a host of average workers.

Niet erg zielig dus, om dat allemaal op te ruimen. Het wachten is nu op  de opgewekte achtergrondverhalen in de Amerikaanse MSM over mensen die zo opgelucht zijn dat het een normaal bedrijf gaat worden.

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