Tesla founder Elon Musk fired almost half of Twitter’s workforce soon after buying the social media platform. Others voluntarily departed, expressing disagreement with him or his policies.
Hundreds of the remaining 3,700 employees have opted to take three months severance rather than be worked harder and longer, according to a New York Times report.
A copy of the email sent to Twitter employees informing them of Twitter’s new direction requiring greater employee commitment was posted by one user on Twitter.
Musk’s internal email Wednesday explained that, going forward, employees will need to be extremely hardcore.
“This will mean working long hours at high intensity,” Musk declared. “Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
The email reportedly contained a link employees could click into and be part of the new Twitter envisioned by Musk.
“Anyone who has not done so by 5 pm tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance,” he concluded.
Actor James Woods joined the growing number of Twitter users who displayed support for Musk’s new governance of the social media platform.
“So a bunch of commie groomers get fired from a job they never showed up for, after spending years suppressing the free speech of half the nation,” Woods exclaimed. “They interfere with a presidential election, saddling the nation with a nincompoop clown show… And we’re supposed to care?”
Peter Clowes, one of the Twitter employees who took the severance package after surviving the 50 percent layoff, posted a tweet storm, explaining his reasons.
“I didn’t leave because I hate @elonmusk,” Clowes stated. “I definitely didn’t agree with many of his decisions or how they were carried out but I also understood and respected others. I don’t know him and if someone tells me to hate a stranger I say ‘no thanks.'”
He noted in subsequent posts he thought of staying until the severance package was offered. He stated only 3 of 75 engineers stayed so he decided to head for the exits.
“If I stayed I would have been on-call constantly with little support for an indeterminate amount of time on several additional complex systems I had no experience in,” Clowes remarked. “Maybe for the right vision I could have dug deep and done mind numbing work for awhile. But that’s the thing…”
Is is unclear at what point in the discussion thread Woods responded to Clowes, because Woods was eventually blocked by the ex-Twitter worker.
A screen capture of the exchange between the two, however, was revealed in a report by The Freedom Times.
“You all banned or suppressed millions of Americans because you didn’t like their politics,” Woods appears to say in the screen capture. “Eat s–t, every one of you.”
It should be noted that many imposter accounts have been reported since Musk completed his $44 billion buyout of Twitter.
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