Maybe they can learn to weld pipelines
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or repair espresso machines
Musk is said to be planning to fire 75% of Twitter’s “workforce”
Red State: “Only days away from Elon Musk closing on a $44 billion deal to take the hell-site Twitter private, word has leaked that one of Elon Musk’s earliest acts will be to fire 75% of the magenta-haired, non-binary mouthbreathers who have mistaken their job for a lifelong sinecure and way to achieving social status.”
Twitter’s workforce is likely to be hit with massive cuts in the coming months, no matter who owns the company, interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Post show, a change likely to have major impact on its ability to control harmful content and prevent data security crises.
Elon Musk told prospective investors in his deal to buy the company that he planned to get rid of nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staff of just over 2,000.
Even if Musk’s Twitter deal falls through — and there’s little indication now that it will — big cuts are expected: Twitter’s current management planned to pare the company’s payroll by about $800 million by the end of next year, a number that would mean the departure of nearly a quarter of the workforce, according to corporate documents and interviews with people familiar with the company’s deliberations. The company also planned to make major cuts to its infrastructure, including data centers that keep the site functioning for more than 200 million users that log on each day.
UPDATE: I just saw this in an April WSJ article reporting on Twitter employees’ reaction to Musk’s purchase announcement, and while I’m not exactly sure what a “director of product management for societal health” does, it’s a fair bet that the position will not survive the cut.
“It’s a time of genuine discomfort & uncertainty,” Edward Perez, director of product management for societal health at Twitter, said in a tweet Monday after the deal was announced. “Most of us believe deeply that Twitter is much more than a tech platform; we have a deep responsibility to society. I hope our new owner gets that.”
