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15 points| thisiscorrect | 3 years ago

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neuronexmachina|3 years ago

> The firings are thought to be, at least in part, a result of Musk's new policy requiring Twitter engineers and other staff working on code or technical projects to update him every week about what they worked on, what they hoped to complete, and specific lines of code they wrote, as Insider previously reported. While these updates are typically expected on Fridays, this week, they were due on Wednesday because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

MattGaiser|3 years ago

> days after saying he was done with layoffs

He had to be sued to keep his word with regard to buying Twitter, so...

Zigurd|3 years ago

I'm not surprised there had to be another layoff. Vast teams were gutted at random, which would leave dozens of people with nothing to do and no immediate prospect of their skills being applicable.

But the party line that "their code was inadequate" is victim blaming. The layoff planning is what was inadequate. They will almost certainly be plaintiffs in yet another suit.