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by ews 854 days ago
From what I know, lots of people with visas (L1/H1B) are stuck in twitter hell.
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I can't imagine the hell it must be to be stuck this way at X. Can you imagine being the engineer that gets the email "Elon wants Séamas O’Reilly suspended because he said some rude things about X" and you happen to be Irish?

Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/02/12/journali...

That makes more sense than the Musk true believers theory.

I mean, I get it, if you work at spacex, then that's one thing... you're building rockets and all.

I laughed, this is a new one.

How many dollars would it take you to work for Musk?

How many dollars would it take if it involved space rockets?

Dunno how “new” it is… I’ve definitely got a big price difference and I’m pretty sure others will to…

Twitter, Tesla, Neuralink, Boring… all the non space Musk corps…. Quarter million if I don’t have to move from Australia, half million to a million depending on where I was going if it requires moving to the USA… I’d do it… but I’d basically have the resignation letter already drafted from day one…

For the rockets… I’d probably be happy with their normal pay offer… not being a US citizen basically makes it impossible for me to apply for a job with SpaceX so I’d take what I could get lol… and since Elon is clearly just glued to his phone tweeting… it’s not going to be the Elon show… Gwynne Shotwell is running the company like a level headed and competent management executive, the place is full of competent engineers who seem like pretty well adjusted people when they talk about their experiences after leaving, and they all seem to leave for normal reasons…