[grepfru_it]

Still waiting for all the major failures people have been clamoring about. I think the real talk is that you can run a lot of dotcoms on a skeleton crew and when money becomes tight you can trim a lot of fat. It’s not something people like to hear because they realize they are the fat

[wepple]

Perhaps that’s me, the fat? If I were let go tomorrow there wouldn’t be any negative consequences for probably at least a year.

I do security things, and it seems those folks are all gone from Twitter.

But my hypothesis is that the negatives won’t emerge for some time, at which point something bad happens and everyone will be standing around shaking their heads at how negligent it was.

Although more generally I do sympathize with the idea that most tech companies are at least a little bloated because money has so often been cheap & revenues always go up historically

[rightbyte]

I don't like the "trim fat" methaphor. Layoffs are more or less random. There is no good, from the company perspective, selection.

[grepfru_it]

Now is the time for managers and directors to find reasons to let go of the employees they don’t like. Some people don’t like eating fat, others will suck on it all day. Personally I trim a bit of fat off my meats before smoking them

[danaris]

There have been major failures. Several times there were outages at Twitter that were plenty serious enough to be a death knell, or near enough, for a company with less network effect keeping people using them.

[grepfru_it]

I’ve taken FAANG sites down and took it personally when anyone got a 500 error for a minor change. Truth is, no one really cares. You can complain it’s down but who are you going to leave them for? Welcome to running a lean ship. Twitter isn’t hurting