According to the BBC, around 50% of Twitter staff have lost access to their work accounts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/bus...64db0cf15ea55905e40bdc&pinned_post_type=share
Whether this means that they're all going to be sacked or that they're just "at risk" isn't clear.
Whatever happens will likely have a significant impact on morale and anyone who is any good will likely be looking elsewhere.
Looks like a class action lawsuit is already under way:
Guardian Link
I hope he loses even more money and this whole thing ends up taking him for a multi-year ride that just continuously drains him of money.
This guy, he seems to be an ******* that's going around being as assholey an ******* as he can, because ...who knows why, maybe he's got mental problems, maybe he's just a dick is all. Because it is one thing to be ruthless when the situation demands it, but this is ...sheer scumbaggery.
First how he summarily kicked out the CEO and some other directors and executives. Sure, they got their golden parachute, at least they must have I'm guessing, but you don't just dump people like that, who've worked for the company for years and years, unless there's some overriding reason to. And now this ...insane, this psychopathic manner, in which he's demanding people work all kinds of ungodly hours for him, and then simply disconnecting them en masse like they aren't even human beings. And for what? How on earth does this level of scumbaggery, this level of assholeyness, do anything good for the company? What purpose can this kind of psychopathic behavior possibly serve?
Absolutely, sue the bugger's pants off, is what I say. I've no idea what kinds of employment contracts those guys have, but there's no way in hell this kind of douchebaggery can be legal, and no way in hell he should be allowed to get away with it.
eta: I'm not talking about the firings per se, neither at the board level, nor even this en masse culling. That's a business decision, and, for better or for worse, it's Musk's call, sure. If he's ruthlessly carrying out his vision, then regardless of whether it turns out well or not, that is his prerogative, absolutely. But the
manner in which he's doing it, kind of going out of his way as if to just show all of these folks how little they're worth, that's ...well, it doesn't actually look very sane to me. And certainly that nonsense about working those 12-hour, 7-day weeks. ..................Let the class action cases come on, let them pile on, I say, and clean the damn place out, and him with it. (And it
will hurt, if large numbers of folks get awared sizeable compensations, given that Twitter apparently isn't profitable and likely not partcularly cash-heavy ....although I say that last without actual knowledge of their balance sheet, so I could be wrong about their cash reserve situation, but seems very likely from the incidental things one's hearing said about the place and its overall profitability.)
