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This article says they are trying to bring back "dozens" of employees. 3700 were fired. Of those apparently some were fired due to clerical error. What is there to explain?

There is a bunch of mass layoffs happening in other tech companies (and across the economy), are we going to pretend they will all go smoothly?

Actually come to think of it, without this acquisition Twitter would still have been forced to let a bunch of people go anyhow regardless of who happens to be the CEO. Possibly just as many. Probably with less severance... but definitely with nicer emails...

Take a deep breath.

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Fired due to clerical error! That’s a new one, and quite motivating for the employee who is no longer fired.

It is absolutely not a new one. Welcome to planet earth. Read some Kafka.

I'm not sure if you're trying to defend twitter, but if you are, I absolutely love that you're doing it by calling it a Kafkian company!

Somebody caught it ;)

Kafka wrote fiction. And was mentally unwell. I do like his writing, actually, but his books are not proof of anything.

Dozens of employees, some of which may be essential to critical operations if they are in fact this desperate to get them back. If Twitter is down for 24 hours because they fired the three people that know the affected subsystem the best, the "it's only dozens out of 5700" proportion says nothing about actual business impact.

Har! A fail whale is close, I too can feel it. Yet to spot one tho, best keep your eyes peeled matey.

Nobody else is cutting 50%, and the twitter severance isn't particularly generous either relative to other layoffs.

The other tech companies are still wildly profitable, Twitter is losing money. The severance is generous relative to company finances I'd say. Heck for some it is more than a Walmart greeter makes in a whole year actually working..

Eventbrite cut 50% during covid btw.

> Twitter is losing money

Most of Twitter's current losses are the interested payment on Musk's leveraged buyout.

> Eventbrite cut 50% during covid btw

I'm shocked that a company whose business plan revolves around groups of people meeting in person had financial trouble during the pandemic.

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