[woodruffw]

No, just a jackass.

Edit: Yes, firing 3000 people with lives and families because you paid an obscene amount of money for a company that you didn’t actually want makes you a jackass.

[Alupis]

> Yes, firing 3000 people with lives and families

Maybe we need to be more mature.

Twitter was very clearly bloated. Laying off the bloat is pretty much status quo for major acquisitions. There is nothing unusual here.

Are any of the other major tech companies laying off huge percentages of their workforce also "jackasses"???

[woodruffw]

It’s not “very clear” to this outsider that Twitter was bloated, not that the firings adhere to any particular “debloating” rationale.

Edit: The approach Musk has taken to layoffs also does not evoke maturity.

[akomtu]

It was the Twitter's board that forced Musk to buy it.

[HWR_14]

Twitter's board would have been sued to hell and back if they hadn't made him live up to his contract. They would have been left personally penniless.

Meanwhile, Musk initiated every stage of the acquisition and dictated the terms.

[akomtu]

Then it is that omnipotent Mr. Shareholder that could sue the board is the villain here: he knew what Musk was going to do, he knew that Musk wanted to back out, yet he chose to press the board.

[woodruffw]

This is completely backwards. Did Twitter’s board make him make an offer? I don’t go around making multi-billion dollar offers for things I don’t actually want.