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BurlRavenscroft
7500 does seem really, really huge. I cannot fathom why - it's a feed. There's so much that goes into this I don't know AND I WORK IN TECH
TheFastpaws
Musk is a great example of failing upwards. He has no talent & is awful at everything but daddy's dime let him go far.
Cataleast
The amount of Muskrats with sudden intricate knowledge of what it takes to run a global multi-billion social media business... Fuck's sakes.
ChristopherHallett
Corey Meyers, announcing publically that he has NO idea what goes into running a large social media website.
QuatermainFT
it's probably more like 80% of engs/devs decide to quit, but almost no HR/mailroom/custodial staff quits.
xstickman
The amount of Musk simping in these threads is hilarious and more than a bit sad
icanc4
That's it, I'm naming my next company SkinnyWalrus
that1gvy
That's 600ish indian guys who are stuck here on a work visa like well fuck.
KingMCG
And Nothing of substance or worth was lost.
Ikingg
Skinny walrus, which freezes and dies in days.
amb1021
Why would they attend the meeting? He made an offer (don't sign by 5 pm/get severance) and they accepted. They don't work for him anymore.
StarscreamAndHutch
#teamlettuce
ThicclikePaulBunyan
All hail our Asteraceae overlord!
deaconshadow
The number of Muscovites sucking up to the billionaire by pretending he’s some kind of brilliant manager is pretty awful.
balmut
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/504/468/a9c.jpg
mardukkur
How the fuck would you know how many employees it takes to run a multi-billion dollar social media operation, Corey? "sounds bloated" my ass
otiumCatulli
And even if it WAS bloated, that's the whole point of a successful company! To create jobs!!! Spread the success around!
Menace2Propriety
Joe Rogan probably told him
Chemie99
Elon basically felt the same way
jeips
note: those at twitter with Work Visas can't just quit so those remaining are probably going to end up like indentured servants
TanithRosenbaum
Ah yes, MBA's favorite chant: "YoUr IT iS bLoAtEd. FiRe PeOpLe". Usually takes just a few weeks until they remember that they need IT...
vegivamp
Last outsource it took two years here. Eejit exec is long gone, of course, and we still haven't fully recovered. Lost some damn good talent.
GlennBecksChalkboard
"7500 sounds pretty damn bloated to me, a person who has absolutely 0 fucking idea about any of this, but i'm me, so i'm right"
amb1021
Yeah, so many ppl find it necessary to express opinions on subjects about which they know absolutely nothing. It's fucking weird.
AwesomeName
I feel sorry for the people who can't take the severance deal.
StarscreamAndHutch
Visa folks are all thats left it sounds like.
AwesomeName
Sounds more like they stay on board until they have something else in the pocket.
AgainstMethod
It can be pretty tough to find someone to cover your visa in tech these days.
randomwalrus
Walrii are not bloated! We are evolutionary engineered perfection. Optimally efficient for our environs, and lifestyle.
Mattigan
Yep, pretty much 1000kg (2200lb),of 95% lay on a beach & 5% raw sexual aggression.
theporkypine
What them big ol tusks for anyway?
vegivamp
One in the pink, one in the stink.
flutterwry
I want to time travel back to the blissful times before I read that.
randomwalrus
Stuff... and things... you know...
Chimichanga007
It's entertaining to watch Musk pretend he planned all this. What a chode
delecti
Seriously. At this point he's clearly realized how badly he's fucked up, but isn't admitting it yet.
ThicclikePaulBunyan
I'm pretty sure Elongated Muskrat is planning to make money by short stocking Twitter's action.
mardukkur
There's no stock anymore. He took it private. If there was still stock he would have been sued/fired days ago.
Chimichanga007
He bought it so now it's not publicly traded anymore. Besides which, he is already bought in, so why would he short his own position (if
Chimichanga007
that were even possible which it is not because twitter is now private and can't be traded so no price to set futures targets)
Chimichanga007
To be clear, shares in Twitter can only be privately traded - basically deals between individual share owners. Not on the exchange.
Chimichanga007
And so therefore the price of shares is only what someone is willing to pay privately, so there isn't a standard price like when it was
EmotionallyCrippled
I’d totally start a new app from scratch and call it Syncin app. The logo would be a fucking sink.
TypeUserName
Would there be blackjack and hookers?
RideTheStimutacs
Dibs on the username AbrahamSyncin.
RancidOrange
I’ll just let that sink in
SindarElla
What does it want now
fickeroffick
...with a little blue bird sinking in it.
EmotionallyCrippled
getadogupya
Corey Myers, bootlicker.
BubblesTheFish
If he licked just a liiiiiiiiiiiittle bit harder maybe Elon Musk would personally give him 10 million dollars.
MusicPhantom
His other tweets are super cringe.
Idonotkillpeoplethatismyleastfavoritethingtodo
You only need to look at that fuckers profile pic to see he's an incel dickhead.
batteryforeverlow
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Nooo, I'm sure he's an expert on the social media industry and can expertly assess how many people a company needs. /s
Deggies
But he's got a down-low car selfie! Surely that's the kind of person we should listen to?
thatlooksinfected
Yep he knows what Musks musk tastes like that's for sure
Kalthramis
Plus some random dickhead on Twitter cannot possibly know if that's bloated or not. It is a very wealthy tech company. Not a sandwich shop.
Neurisko
Yeah a lot of companies outsource a lot of things that Twitter might do in-house, I dunno. Idiots criticize before they do any research.
n0d2ablindh0rs3
Definitely a keyboard expert.
koflan
He could run the whole company by himself!
KeepingRepostStatsBusy
@evacide just use Imgur, all good comments are here
thomerow
memeseeks
There couldn't be a more accurate representation of this.
elulongin
Except for the expression of shock from the guy who represents Elon
sevenfingerman
You mean the professional boot locker, Corey Myers?
Imalwaysready
Are y'all talking about ol' Corey "Bootlicker" Myers?
sevenfingerman
I believe so, still not sure. Old Corey “quisling” Myers, right?
FallingStar7669
I hear he moonlights as a brown noser.
melwil
That foot locker, Corey Myers, yeah
SecondSince
He has the referee shirt and everything!
WilliamHuskerAdama
Corey Myers, soot blocker.
Bukulu
Benefit of the doubt, could be someone who never had contact to large companies. A few years ago I thought 500 people is a big company,...
Bukulu
...7500 is massive! Now there are about 1000 in the branch I'm working and we could do with 200-300 more easily.
fickeroffick
There's not 7500 people in a building. They're spread through countries around the world. Ireland doesnt even HAVE housing near the offices.
Bukulu
Never talked about office structures but scale of operations in general, and that people who are not accustomed to them lack comprehension
persondude27
Lul, you mean Angry White Dude With a Beard Who Takes Selfies in His Truck isn't an experienced network engineer? Who knew?
errrikblack
Sure he's never worked in tech and has zero understanding of corp strategy & operations but an expert in resource mgmt
persondude27
He's probably got a solid 9 months of HVAC experience, and I'd bet forklift certified. If he's not qualified to redesign twitter, no one is.
MagnorCriol
Honestly 7500 people to run one of the top social media sites - worldwide, 24/7, gazillions of interactions - doesn't seem that bloated.
marsilies
That's not counting the contractors, of whom Elon fired 4,500-5,500 earlier this week, about 80% of them.
breadedfishstrip
For comparison, Facebook employs 45k fulltime employees, YT anywhere between 2 and 5k
vegivamp
EmployED...
UnrealDreamer
Very bloated. They are only managing a world-wide app on 3000 separate networks hosting 792 million tweets a day…
Bleda412
The sarcasm is obvious but so is your ignorance. Twitter has business partners. Do you understand how much of the "nuts and bolts" they do?
brambleramble
This is exactly what Elon thought when he bought it, and you are both wrong
areyouelonmusk
Maybe you could help educate us
Menace2Propriety
I don't think online platforms have many nuts or bolts. That's more machinery. Mechanics and engineers on the other hand...
HonestlyNotARobot
I'm currently an enterprise architect for a global company with a few thousand people. Enlighten me on why you think you're right.
Deekermanns
He bought a few shares of Tesla at its peak and is now obligated to defend Elon's honor at any opportunity.
maybeamonster
I'll wager "basically nothing but buy ads and aggregated user data", because why would they farm out the part that is twitter?
vegivamp
Come now, surely it's just a matter of spinning up half a dozen instances of Amazon Social? /s
VulcanP90
I hope you feel really fucking stupid.
vegivamp
They feel pretty fucking smart. Wouldn't be making such dumb comments otherwise.
vegivamp
No, because I'm not pretty to their internal workings, and neither are you.
RancidOrange
*party
Blackcurry328
You aren’t privy to their internal workings. You are pretty, though, so don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
vegivamp
I meant party, I've seen enough of the privy today.
backrideup9
How many of the 3000 who are leaving will have to sue to get their severance I wonder?
Tjitso
SolHSA
Elon will likely bankrupt twitter, after which they are debtors.. and there's 14B debt already that needs to be paid first.
rahbeNoodleBandit
In more civilized parts of the world employees are automatically one of the first groups to be paid in case of bankruptcy.
Fedotia
Considering HR and finance departments probably got fired, I sense a giant class action.
Bunnies007
See that cloud of dust on the horizon? That's a class action heading this way.
AntRam95
Considering it’s elon, probably all of them
Vanderhugen
And they may be last in line to get their money if he files for bankruptcy could be years before they see a fraction of what they are owed
Eli93
Considering it's Elon he'll probably get bailed out by taxpayer dollars to pay them or something.
HonestlyNotARobot
The real winners here are employment lawyers
trasneoir
And every other social media platform who was struggling to find talent.
StarscreamAndHutch
All. Finance and payroll are gone so who will do the work? Musk wont stand up a department to make good.
Nizedk
Arv regarding finance and payroll? C-levels were booted, but not entire depts?
Deekermanns
He swapped from random firings to threatening employees that stayed and rewarding employees to leave. This achieved expected results.
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Nizedk
Thanks! +1
MarkSoupial
Remember when every hospital spent decades reducing bloat and then Covid-19 hit and everyone found out why you want redundancies?
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
“Yeah but what’re the chances that could happen again?!” Hospital execs watching this same shit happen now that RSV is killing babies
tondemonai
Yup and as soon as it's not necessary they'll go right back to minimum staffing.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
"Lean" methodologies are one of the many ways the modern workforce has gotten completely fucked.
WhatzitTooya
And we fixed that by hailing them heroes! So much clapping, that must have been done something, right? Right??
Dappin
Lean systems are fragile.
alRakoun
I worked there years ago. Your comparison is wrong because extra hospital staff don't go around infecting patients with new diseases.
alRakoun
Whereas in Twitter Eng we often had people or teams whose work product might solve one problem but so stupidly it introduced five others.
Thornaxe
Why can’t our administration redundancies staff the ICU? Guess we’ll never know.
pork4brains
And 2.7 years later we’re dealing with 3 epidemics on top of new Covid strains every 4 months? Yeah, profit-motivated healthcare is bad
2thless
But 70% of hospitals in the US are "non profit". They keep the rates lower /s
deaconshadow
Pretty sure when they say nonprofit they mean “some insurance company is gonna get insanely rich but you aren’t going to make a dime.”
2thless
Or we are non profit for taxes so we don't have to pay for things like property taxes so we can pay our ceo over million dollar salary
allyrounds365
Hospitals didn’t get rid of bloat. They just didn’t understand that Just In Time delivery doesn’t work in healthcare
everythingiscats
All the bloat is in the admin and not in the actual docs, nurses, assistants, porters, etc
PiercedViking
Remember when cities were using ice skating rinks as temporary morgues? Boy, those were fun times! /s
ADDGirl
Yup, I remember the refrigerator truck out back at my hospital.
Ninjainslippers
Or when a single ship blocked global trade for like a week?
Putitinyomama
It’s almost like we shouldn’t run our healthcare system for profit
deaconshadow
The sad and freakish part of it is that there is money to be made in healthcare providing services for the government.
sorosfieldops
Dude if a health insurance CEO read this they would become real sad.
Putitinyomama
flutterwry
Twitter is an anti-hospital, though. Makes healthy people sick. Leaving this sinking ship is fine, I just hope they don’t build a new one.
ThickTomato
Why are our stock piles of JIC masks? It's like we didn't think we needed this many of something that doesn't go bad and our staff use all d
timmaybanks
Part of pandemic response plan that Trump flubbed was to spin up more masks. There was details in obamas plan. Also strategic stockpile
ThickTomato
Obama's plan would have saved >300k of us, its beyond tragic what trump did to American lives
timmaybanks
And bidens vaccine mandate would have saved 300k more. Struck down by conservative Supreme court
timmaybanks
In a different timeline hilary is impeached for allowing 10k Americans to die. And stopping it in its tracks.
GeneratingSelf
The word "criminal" comes to mind.
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
Na it works great *kicks a million dead bodies under the rug*
Evillairforrent
Hey, whats this rug doin' here? That's a tripping hazard.
Blackcurry328
Due to recent deregulation efforts, this rug complies with safety guidelines.
Evillairforrent
*Pokes Osha* c'mon..do something
kadaeux
Don't be fucking crass. The dumpster is out the back ffs.
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
I'm just starting a new compost pile. Going green and all that
Randomman96
Dumpster was full.
IllBeOverAt5
I miss the days of "We have too many nurses, who wants to go home?" I would opt to use some paid leave and dip out... it was beautiful
AgainstMethod
Were these days in the 90's? Because I don't recall there ever being enough nurses.
channelranger
as a CNA so do I. Used to happen a lot because everywhere I worked just staffed one more person than necessary. Now? Constant mandating.
notthatkaren
Except administration defined too many nurses as almost as many needed to perform safe care.
SanchoBlackout69
I thought it would be exactly as many as can handle the quietest possible day, minus one so the others don't slack during the downtime
IllBeOverAt5
True, although we had a lower census pre-COVID and staffing ratios were typically 4:1 in med-surg 2:1 in the ICU. Now 5:1 or 6:1 and 3:1
CptRobotNinja
I've been a nurse nearly 20 years and never seen 4:1 medsurg. Usually it's 6-7:1. We we got 4:1 then someone is floating to another floor
notthatkaren
There is a reason unions demand specific staff ratios in nrsg contracts, legislatures too in some states.