Elon Musk fired dozens more Twitter staff the night before Thanksgiving
businessinsider.com
businessinsider.com
Regardless of how you feel about whether he's ruining twitter or fixing it, there's a clear pattern of impulsiveness to his actions and I wouldn't have risked being in the situation of these people on the 3rd or 4th or whatever wave it is now even if I were drinking the kool-aid as far as his ambitions go.
Of course, if its true that most of the people who didn't take the deal are trapped because of visa status, then I fully understand why they didn't take the deal.
I dont know if Twitter had a core culture of excellence inside the bloat that exists in so many ad-driven companies, but the way the culling has happened seems almost deigned to destroy the engineering culture at the company, which I think is probably a miscalculation. The sad part is that people really are fungible to a certain extent because of the tools we have built to do software-based business. And it might be an overreaction to claim that just because the employees are being mistreated that the business of twitter is somehow doomed.
1. People with visas.
2. People with illness, like chemotherapy.
3. People who need the money to support a family, pay rent.
4. People who loved & cared about Twitter too much to abandon it.
5. People who decided to trust their boss one last time.
Let's not mock those people.
1-3 are deserving of sympathy - and it's really our collective shame that people are in that situation.
4 & 5 deserve to be mocked at this point.