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Originally Posted by DETRoadster
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Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan
Why is it a train wreck? Shortly after Twitter (…Musk) laid off workers, Amazon (…Bezos), Meta (…Zuckerberg), etc. laid off workers and Google is setting themselves up for massive layoffs as well. Musk isn't stupid.
Meta and Amazon laid off nearly three times as many employees as Twitter, yet, we focus solely on Musk's decision?!? Unnecessary meltdown much?!? The only reason people are up in arms over Musk is because they are upset over his acquisition.
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Musk isn't stupid but he is impulsive.
Amazon has something like 1.4M employees and Meta has over 70k. Twitter HAD 7k. You can't compare them based on the numbers laid off. That's just silly. Compare the layoffs and subsequent exodus at Twitter based on a % of workforce.
Did Amazon, Google, and Meta put core revenue at risk with the layoffs? Did any of them leave critical departments completely unstaffed?
A lot of people here defending WHY Musk came in and gutted the place. My train wreck comments were more directed at the HOW. |
He may
seem impulsive to some, but I view him as being
calculated. He has seen Twitter beneath the layers and has a much better vantage point about what is necessary to maintain the product/service as efficiently as possible. He had a lot of time to think about what needed to be done to set the company on a better path. For all we know, he went in there and saw a bloated workforce and knew immediately where to trim the fat. His perspective on what constitutes a "
critical department" may differ from yours. Some of those departments weren't critical at all IMHO.