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Oh no, accountability!

I think all bosses should be like Beanys old one. We should ditch the idea of workplaces being nice places to be and make sure that all employees are considered workshy scum, to be mercilessly abused beyond the terms of their contracts. Fuck mental health, fuck work/life balance, work them to death!

Lol - I'm sure there are many companies who go too far either way - but I'm sure Twitter got where it was by many talented people working very hard!

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:36 pm I think all bosses should be like Beanys old one. We should ditch the idea of workplaces being nice places to be and make sure that all employees are considered workshy scum, to be mercilessly abused beyond the terms of their contracts. Fuck mental health, fuck work/life balance, work them to death!

Lol - I'm sure there are many companies who go too far either way - but I'm sure Twitter got where it was by many talented people working very hard!

Those uber-talented people and their amazing culture managed to successfully underperform the rest of the social media sector and build the most stagnant social media company the world, woo-hoo!

Eh, that tweet definitely needs more context - if it's cutting through a few layers of middle management to get better feedback from line management, it could be genuinely useful.

If it's being expected to be direct from, for example, engineers and HR staff and the facilities management teams, that'd be less valuable; they'd just end up spending time trying to say the right thing in the right way to avoid getting the hairdryer treatment - it's an utterly self defeating concept, especially in a large organisation.

A colleague used to spend an hour of his Friday afternoon wording his one line comment on his timesheet email to the CEO to make sure that it didn't cause the CEO to question anything because then he'd get a phone call at 7pm on Friday night asking why he said something in a specific way.....That's not even a joke, and I saw it happen multiple times.

I got around this by just sending 'timesheet attached, have a good weekend'....but it meant that the CEO thought I wasn't engaged, etc - hence why I was always on the shitheap. But it meant I could actually spend that last hour of Friday doing my fucking job.

Source - been there, done that. Being micromanaged by a malignant narcassist who doesn't even begin to understand what you actually do (and I'm sure Musk understands why large scale mysql caching is important, but I'm damned sure he doesn't understand why problems occur in it at a low level, etc) is no fun at all.

Edit: Just thinking about that bumped my heartrate up by 20bpm - says it all about how good that management strategy is

drcarlos wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:40 pm

Gavster wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:04 pm
Also appears to have done some good work around child abuse sharing

I heard this today too, probably one of the best things they've done since the takeover and very disturbing that given it's gravity and harm that it wasn't done before.

I'd be surprised if Twitter wasn't already deleting these as they found them, I'd assume it was only deemed comment worthy because the god king is in charge.

Gavster wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:41 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:36 pm I think all bosses should be like Beanys old one. We should ditch the idea of workplaces being nice places to be and make sure that all employees are considered workshy scum, to be mercilessly abused beyond the terms of their contracts. Fuck mental health, fuck work/life balance, work them to death!

Lol - I'm sure there are many companies who go too far either way - but I'm sure Twitter got where it was by many talented people working very hard!

Those uber-talented people and their amazing culture managed to successfully underperform the rest of the social media sector and build the most stagnant social media company the world, woo-hoo!

You'd have to be a total idiot to pay $44bn for it!

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:57 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:41 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:36 pm I think all bosses should be like Beanys old one. We should ditch the idea of workplaces being nice places to be and make sure that all employees are considered workshy scum, to be mercilessly abused beyond the terms of their contracts. Fuck mental health, fuck work/life balance, work them to death!

Lol - I'm sure there are many companies who go too far either way - but I'm sure Twitter got where it was by many talented people working very hard!

Those uber-talented people and their amazing culture managed to successfully underperform the rest of the social media sector and build the most stagnant social media company the world, woo-hoo!

You'd have to be a total idiot to pay $44bn for it!

On that yes, but based on the fact (correctly or more likely incorrectly) that every legacy media outlet adopted it as their way of taking the publics pulse on every issue that value was not only on user numbers but also it's relevance to the discourse in current affairs. Hence why we see the hysterics over the potential freedoms that they want to implement.

He was still an idiot to pay $44bn for it, isn't it way over the company's valuation?

ZedLeg wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:10 pm He was still an idiot to pay $44bn for it, isn't it way over the company's valuation?

Yes

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:57 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:41 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:36 pm I think all bosses should be like Beanys old one. We should ditch the idea of workplaces being nice places to be and make sure that all employees are considered workshy scum, to be mercilessly abused beyond the terms of their contracts. Fuck mental health, fuck work/life balance, work them to death!

Lol - I'm sure there are many companies who go too far either way - but I'm sure Twitter got where it was by many talented people working very hard!

Those uber-talented people and their amazing culture managed to successfully underperform the rest of the social media sector and build the most stagnant social media company the world, woo-hoo!

You'd have to be a total idiot to pay $44bn for it!

I think we can all agree he paid too much for it!

I'm pretty sure after being made an offer well above the share value, the board would have been at risk of a shareholder revolt and other legal shenanigans if they had just let him walk away without pursuing him.

Rampant, late stage, shareholder-value-at-any-cost capitalism.....bad.....?

That's what happens when you base your offer to buy a company on a "funny" number... oooh I put 4:20 in my offer. I am a genius!

Not enough is being said about the innocent parties’ reaction to him wanting to breach a $44bn contract he entered into willingly? OK….

Nothing is unfixable. Systems don't just stop working because some people left. They don't have feelings, get butt-hurt because the spaceman sacked some people and just stop.

Anyway the comment to which Jobbo replied was asking Mito how twitter was "absolutely shit to use" now, when it's demonstrably no different to a few weeks ago to "use".

The hyperbole surrounding this is mental.

It's actually identical to use on PC, the iPhone app is an advert laden shit-fest so I've just stopped using it whilst taking a dump.

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:07 pm It's actually identical to use on PC, the iPhone app is an advert laden shit-fest so I've just stopped using it whilst taking a dump.

That's no different to how it's been for some time. Click on the 3 dots, say you don't like this ad, do that to a few and then you should see fewer of them next time you use it. Same on Insta as well.

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:37 pm

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:07 pm It's actually identical to use on PC, the iPhone app is an advert laden shit-fest so I've just stopped using it whilst taking a dump.

That's no different to how it's been for some time. Click on the 3 dots, say you don't like this ad, do that to a few and then you should see fewer of them next time you use it. Same on Insta as well.

Will just replace it with new ads though?
I used to do that on YouTube - do it once at the beginning of the video and you'd get no more ads until the end, but recently many people must have done it and they've cottoned on so now it just replaces it with another ad

Also hilariously I'm getting ads within ads on Twitter - there will be a video ad which will than have a 5 second ad before the video ad

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:51 pm

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:37 pm

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:07 pm It's actually identical to use on PC, the iPhone app is an advert laden shit-fest so I've just stopped using it whilst taking a dump.

That's no different to how it's been for some time. Click on the 3 dots, say you don't like this ad, do that to a few and then you should see fewer of them next time you use it. Same on Insta as well.

Will just replace it with new ads though?
I used to do that on YouTube - do it once at the beginning of the video and you'd get no more ads until the end, but recently many people must have done it and they've cottoned on so now it just replaces it with another ad

Not for a while. It seems to prompt it to knock it off for a good while.