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Sign or quit: Elon's ultimatum about the new 'hardcore' Twitter [1]
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Date: 2022-11-16
Petulance: to the Space-X, Alice, stick a fork in the sink he let in. My way or the driver-asleep-in-the-back-seat highway.
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk gave Twitter employees a deadline of 5 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday to decide if they wanted to work for him, and he asked those who did not share his vision to leave their jobs, in his latest shock treatment of the social media company.
Mr. Musk made the announcement in an early morning email to employees on Wednesday; The New York Times obtained the message, which had the subject line “A Fork in the Road.” In the note, Mr. Musk, 51, reiterated that Twitter faced a difficult road ahead and offered employees three months of severance if they did not want to continue working there “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”
The billionaire has been unrelenting in rapidly transforming Twitter since completing his $44 billion acquisition of the company nearly three weeks ago. Mr. Musk swiftly slashed half of Twitter’s 7,500 person work force, dismissed thousands of contractors, fired employees who had criticized him and trimmed infrastructure costs. He has also proclaimed that Twitter needed to make more money or it would face bankruptcy. And he has pushed on subscription products, alternately wooing and insulting Twitter’s advertisers.
Giving remaining employees a deadline to leave has the dual effect of allowing Mr. Musk to further cut costs and purge the company of disgruntled workers. Mr. Musk has brought in a circle of confidants and employees from some of his other companies, such as the electric carmaker Tesla, to advise him at Twitter.
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x Anyone who did not sign the pledge by 5 p.m. Eastern time Thursday would receive three months of severance pay, the message said.
In the midnight email, which was obtained by The Post, Musk said Twitter “will need to be extremely hardcore” going forward.
https://t.co/pwaWOAWeyf — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 16, 2022
x this is the week it got clarified that for some very loud people "free speech" means they get to call their colleagues slurs at work but if someone tells the boss they're doing something wrong they should be fired — Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 16, 2022
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