Sucks for them, they could have gotten 3 months but only got one because they were hardcore like that
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.
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.