Quittings multiplied on Twitter on Thursday, November 17, the day after Elon Musk’s ultimatum, which asked employees who survived the first wave of layoffs to choose between giving up. “thoroughly, unconditionally”or leave (“Commit to the new ‘hardcore’ Twitter or leave”)
“I may be exceptional, but (…) I’m not unconditional” (“hardcore”)eg tweeted Andrea Horst, whose LinkedIn profile is still showing “Supply Chain Manager (survivor) on Twitter ». She added the hashtag “# lovewhereyouworked” ie. “Love where you worked”as well as many other employees who announce their choice.
The Twitter profile bios of several departing engineers on Thursday described them as “soft engineers” or “tough ex-engineers,” dismissive of their new boss. The entire team would decide to go together and leave the company, the departing employee told Reuters. According to several sources, Elon Musk would have a meeting with some of his engineers to try to convince them to stay, to no avail.
A wave of mass departures
The numbers of this new wave of departures are not yet known. Reuters estimates them at several hundred. In a survey of the Blind Work app, which identifies employees by their work email address and allows them to share information anonymously, 42% of 180 respondents chose the answer. “Take the exit option, I’m free.” A quarter say they chose to stay “unwillingly”and only 7% of respondents say they have “Click yes to stay, I’m a fan”.
In a private conversation with about 50 Twitter employees at Signal, about 40 said they had decided to leave, according to a former employee. And in a private Slack group of current and former Twitter employees, about 360 people joined a new channel titled: “voluntary dismissal”..
A separate survey on Blind asked staff members to estimate the percentage of people who would quit Twitter based on their perception. More than half of respondents estimated that at least 50% of workers would leave.
Blue hearts and hello emojis flooded Twitter on Thursday, marking the second time in two weeks that employees of the bluebird network said goodbye. By 6 p.m., more than two dozen employees in the United States and Europe had announced their departures in Twitter posts reviewed by Reuters, though each of the resignations could not be independently verified.
Questions about platform stability?
Twitter alerted all employees Thursday afternoon that its San Francisco, California offices were temporarily closed and inaccessible, even with a badge, according to Zoe Schiffer, a reporter for the specialized media platform Platformer. According to an inside source, security guards began evicting employees from the office as early as Thursday evening. The social network, which has lost many members of its communications team, did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The wave of new launches will include multiple engineers tasked with fixing bugs and preventing service outages, raising questions about the platform’s stability in the coming days. The version of the Twitter app used by employees began to slow down Thursday evening, according to a source familiar with the matter, who estimated that the public version of Twitter may not survive overnight.
“If it breaks down, there are no repairers left in many areas”said this person, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals. The hashtag #RIPTwitter topped trends Thursday night into Friday.
Amazing method
On Wednesday, Elon Musk, the owner and head of Twitter for three weeks, asked the employees of the social network to make an individual commitment. “Working long hours at high intensity”, “build revolutionary Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world”.
“Only exceptional performance will receive satisfactory evaluation”He said in this internal letter consulted by AFP. Employees had until Thursday afternoon to tap the box “yes”, fined to leave Twitter with compensation corresponding to three months’ salary. A method that is challenged even in the US, where labor laws are less protective of workers than in many developed countries.
“Big Adventure”
Half of the group’s 7,500 employees were fired by the multi-billionaire two weeks ago. “I have no words, I’m just grateful to be able to say that I was able to get my dream job and accomplish more than I ever thought possible. It was a great adventure.”Deanna Hines-Glasgow, who was Twitter’s director of customer relations, tweeted on Thursday on her LinkedIn profile. He identifies himself as “Ex Tweep,” a Twitter employee nickname, and “Blackbird,” the name of the California company’s support group for African-American employees.
“To all the Tweeps who decided today would be their last day. thank you for being great partners through the ups and downs. I can’t wait to see what you do next.”said Esther Crawford, the platform’s director of product development, one of the few managers who neither resigned nor was fired, and who still publicly supports the new boss.
Source: Le Figaro
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