Twitter employees are sleeping on the office floor to meet Elon Musk’s deadlines
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Cry me a river. I’ve lived on a farm - sometime you just gotta do what you gotta do…
If you call this level of expectation a "massive ego", then perhaps there is something that you don't understand going on here?
When it comes to Twitter, yes the ego is out of check, expecting employees to go above and beyond for something that is little more than a spam cannon.
That said, neither company's success could not be realized on a normal work weeks for all employees. Nothing SpaceX is doing has a hard time limit - they are not saving lives or winning wars. Its about revenue - short term revenue.
If you're given an impossible deadline, that your peers all agree is impossible, and are under threat of firing, is that considered constructive dismissal?
It just sounds so insane to me that there wouldn't be some sort of regulatory mitigation against this type of "demand under threat of firing" thing
https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/158770970548883046...
This shouldn't be normalized, even if some people are happy to oblige.
Sad, how people now sneer at hard work and dedication.
Working in a place where everyone is passionate about the mission - that’s a wonderful feeling that doesn’t come often in life.
It’s true solidarity, as opposed to the ideological socialist form of “solidarity”
Savour it.
Anyone who goes into one without knowing this is naive.
The important thing is to go in there and work bloody hard, because in a startup your hard work is uniquely able to contribute to the success of the company. And you’ll be handsomely rewarded if the company succeeds.
Many startups are unsuccessful, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless or undesirable to have the option of striving within this environment.
All big companies were startups at some point. We must maintain the culture of hard work and high risk/reward, otherwise our economy will consist of uninspiring medium-sized companies (with the only large ones being banks or oil companies), as is the situation in most of the world outside America.
You think that without that culture, there would be no large companies other than banks or oil companies anywhere in the world?
Who are we to judge employees at Twitter like this? In reality, they might be working hard because they believe in the new vision of the company.
Perhaps they believe that free speech in the public square is fundamentally important to democracy and freedom.
I certainly do, and despite valuing my family time highly, I would put in long hours if I had the opportunity to work at Twitter 2.0.