[ajkjk]

Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.

[PuppyTailWags]

Layoffs are always morale-killers. Twitter isn't particularly special in this regard, and if Twitter found a way to lay off 50% within 3 days to a boost of morale to the remaining workforce that would be finally be the one truly innovative accomplishment its done, lol.

[e40]

The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.

[ajkjk]

Oh yeah, not surprised. I'm just griping that there's a lot of assuming going on in here and it's worth, like, checking.

[acomjean]

I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship. The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round.

Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..

[teg4n_]

Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.

[jeffrallen]

Stock options in a non public company are only as valuable as the boss decides to make them.

They do work as toilet paper though.

[giantrobot]

Even the biggest Musk fanboy at Twitter isn't immune to the morale hit from a doubling or trebling of their workload because their team was cut in half from layoffs. What consolation is the company "getting back on course" if you've got to work 70+ hour weeks for the next several months. No time off, sleeping at your desk, never seeing family, and certainly no holiday time off. At the end you now work for a Musk company so your compensation will lag the SV mean.

I feel bad for anyone in that position that feels happy. That's just a really sad Stockholm syndrome at that point.

[freejazz]

Yes, I cannot wait for the chance to take my own company's legal liability onto my own shoulders so I can prove how faithful I am to my new leader!!

[reducesuffering]

Blind has a sentiment analysis called 'Pulse' where verified employees answer survey Q's about their company. Employee morale has driven off a cliff.

[d35007]

How many are left? /s