If You Question Elon Musk’s Leadership At Twitter, You’re Fired

Well, it looks like Elon Musk is so thin skinned that anyone who says anything about his leadership is going to get fired based on this:

NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email.

“We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 15, 2022

Here’s one of the affected employees, who had pushed back on Musk’s tweets blaming performance issues on Twitter’s architecture.

“One of the absolute best engineers we had,” one employee tells me. "A legend in her area of expertise.” https://t.co/n4WHZqoU7n
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 15, 2022

What do you even say? pic.twitter.com/DQAmRscs9J
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 15, 2022

Elon Musk is a class A jackass. And I think it’s safe to say that burn it to the ground is Musk’s play at the moment. Because firing people to gain loyalty almost never works. And this will simply result in even more people heading to the exits. As a result it will leave Musk with nothing. But he clearly thinks he’s the smartest person in the room. And he’s getting his opportunity to prove it. Though at the rate he’s going, all he’s proving is that he’s ill equipped to run Twitter and he’s far from being the smartest person in the room.

And he can’t fire me for saying that.

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One Response to “If You Question Elon Musk’s Leadership At Twitter, You’re Fired”

Don Says:
November 16, 2022 at 8:34 am

“Floggings will continue until morale improves” was a joke, Elon did not get that, apprently.

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