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What’s Gone at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper

nytimes.com

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> In one case, a new hire contacted a former employee on LinkedIn to get an understanding of how services worked at the company

Hope they at least billed consultant rates for their time.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that, once something as large and complex as Twitter has been built, you can probably maintain it with a much smaller team. But your downsizing shouldn't be this impulsive and sloppy.

I was part of an acquisition where a little less than one floor of of a five floor building stayed employed.

But the cleaning service still did their job.

My lunches at the old CEOs desk (lunch stored in his fridge) with access to his office bar … and trips to his bathroom were glorious!

I also moved a number of company awards (since abandoned by laid off employees) and plaques to my tiny cubicle. The new CEO was actually impressed by all my awards (not my intention…).

"Un-paywalled" link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/technology/twitter-elon-m...

(Found via https://mastodon.social/@cong/109599447912284424)

HN stripped of the query string that unlocks it, I assume as it looks like a tracking code.

Alternative mirror: https://archive.ph/mImLD

You know, I think this Mastodon thing might take off. I'm really impressed that you can have your own community but still be part of the larger social network. At first I thought you had to join each Mastodon server that you wanted to participate in, but I was wrong. Just join one server and follow people that have accounts on any other Mastodon server. Neat!

Not sure that article says but if twitter disappears, does that mean that this "wealth" gets redistributed?

What Elon and other investors paid is already gone. The LBO loans could not be sold even at a steep discount, and they get paid ahead of equity. Most expensive wank in history.

https://archive.ph/b2ib9 Paywall free link

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