Twitter offered severance deals to laid-off employees that many found unacceptable. Hundreds are suing the company.
The Los Angeles Times reported:
After months of waiting, hundreds of Twitter employees laid off by Elon Musk in early November received their separation agreements by email Saturday morning.
The agreements offered one month of severance pay, but with a major catch — employees must sign away their right to ever sue the company, assist anyone in a legal case against the company unless required by law, or speak negatively about Twitter, its management or Elon Musk.
More striking is what the document omitted, said one former engineering manager who was laid off Nov. 4. The separation agreement does not include year-end bonuses, cash contribution for healthcare continuation, additional severance based on tenure, or the cash value of restricted stock units that are typically vested every quarter. These were all part of Twitter’s general severance package prior to Musk’s acquisition of the company in October, according to a previous companywide email….
Twitter, which no longer has a formal communications team, could not be reached for comment.
According to Business Insider, the budget-cutting has gone too far. Bathrooms in the Twitter headquarters are often out of toilet paper. Maintenance staff have been laid off, and bathrooms stink.
A billionaire skimping on toilet paper! That’s no way to run a business or a school.
That stinks!
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All valid concerns. Odd that you don’t have the same concerns for railroad workers.
All valid concerns. Odd that you don’t have the same concern for the people of Ukraine.
NYC public school parent, kudos for a great come back directed at dienne77 – “All valid concerns …”
dienne77
Which Railroad Workers would that be. I don’t recall the issue being the same. Perhaps if the sticking point was the the 30% reduction in staffing levels in the last 5 years that made life “so unbearable”, then you would have a valid point. Sadly I don’t recall bringing staffing levels back up being a demand. Unlike NYC nurses who just won that concession.
I belong to the curmudgeon analog generation who couldn’t give a flying fox about this and only do so because the majority of stupid, shallow people on it are somehow running our country and seemingly the world. So I have to pay some attention, but it annoys me that I do. Anyone who makes a decision based on what one sees on this or any other social media probably deserves what they get.
GregB
I don’t see where the Post has to do with twitter accounts. Most of these 3700 employees were employed in technical Jobs at the company having little to do with the Politics surrounding the use of twitter. Nor were they in the position to make policy.
Now as to those accounts . I seldom if ever comment on Twitter except a few nasty comments to Morning Smoe. I use mine and not through the app to follow a few progressive economists who use the platform to comment on events Economic and Political . Most were thrown off by Musk for a while.
Example :
Or
Their debates are not usually conducted in 280 characters but are in the links they provide. So not all Twitter or Facebook which does not limit one to 280 characters is or was a Cesspool. It can be a useful medium as well as a destructive force. I wont deny that much of both have not been destructive purveyors of miss information. But we have seen the same from the supposed Liberal Media and the “Respectable Journals.” The Baker Post is Directed at the NY Times. Krugman as you are aware writes for the Times twice a week but comments on twitter almost daily. With links to more commentary than he has in the Times.
That said: back to the labor issue. When a Blue collar worker is laid off there seldom is a severance package. The mostly Tech and “skilled” workers at Twitter will have a far easier time finding employment than in other sectors of the economy. Unemployment in Tech is less than 2% . About half what it is in the rest of the economy. As long as the rest of the economy remains well these workers will find Jobs. Being in the top 10% of wage earners they are or should be in better financial shape to weather a storm. If they are really pissed at Musk tell him where he can shove that 1 month package and have at the Law Suits.
And unlike Word Press, Facebook has an edit button that I desperately need and use frequently. So you can see why I am a fan. Because I am certain 30 seconds after I hit post I will find an error.
All correct points, Joel. I just hate social media and what it’s done to our society. For every good, there are hundreds of kooks and haters. Kind of like my feelings about religious freedom and scientology, I admit to being a hypocrite about anyone’s rights involved in the Social Media Industrial Complex.
GregB
I do understand.
Greg: I am married to a naturalist. Would you please send me some info on the Flying Fox. I have seen the flying squirrel, the green-tailed towhee, and the lumbering jackass. Not familiar with that fox.
It’s a very large bat
How about the elongated Musk ox?
Ever heard of that?
Flying foxes are known to be randy, musk oxen are supposed to be the worst smelling animals on earth. Perhaps not as bad as many American elephants, I’m guessing. At least Musk oxen circle together to protect their young as an instinct. Not sure about flying foxes.
The richer…the more disgusting they are.
Musk is in a lot of trouble on all fronts.
His BS is finally starting to catch up with him.
He is being sued by investors for the “inaccurate” tweets for which he was fined millions of dollars by the SEC.
And his “Full Self Driving” cars are anything but and crashing into dummies right and left . Google testing done by “dawn project”
The guy is a typical used car salesman , who just happens to be selling new cars.
A Tesla operating on Full self driving was also the cause of a multi car pileup recently, which the NTSB is now investigating, along with many other crashes involving Teslas
I happened to pass a very slow (way under the speed limit, which is 30 mph) Tesla (legally) near home. Looking in my rear view mirror, I noticed the driver (wasn’t a senior) crazily waving her hands around, as in, she wasn’t steering the car but was using her self-driving mode. She proceeded to follow me almost all the way home, using her “jazz hands” & grinning like a lunatic.
Scary to think of her driving on the highway.
I honestly don’t know why so many seemingly intelligent people fall for his hype and other BS.
It’s like they put their brain on hold when they listen to him.
Elon’s promises
https://dawnproject.com/dan-odowd-calls-out-elon-musks-false-promises-in-third-ad-in-his-campaign/
“I feel like I got duped” said a Tesla customer who recently bought a Tesla, only to have Musk slash the price by thousands of dollars just a few months later.
Ya think?
Ha ha ha.
Tesla fanboys are such saps.
They get precisely what they deserve.
Link to dawn project tests and video posted online by Tesla owners
https://dawnproject.com/dont-be-a-tesla-crash-test-dummy/
Not incidentally, in response to the dawn project tests with child sized dummies, a dummy Tesla fanboy asked online for someone to volunteer their child to do a real life test of the Tesla (!!!) — because they didn’t believe the test on the dummies was valid.
What is even worse, some other Tesla fanboy actually volunteered their child for the test(!!!!!!)
Immediately after this happened , the NTSB issued a warning that people NOT test Teslas with real children.
While most people would think the latter unnecessary, As I indicated above, Tesla fanboys are not the sharpest spoons in the drawer.
Of course, what the NTSB should be doing is shutting the whole Tesla FSD public road “experiment” down because as Dan O’Dowd (who started the Dawn Project) has noted, we are all effectively Elon Musk’s crash test dummies by being forced to drive on public roads with Teslas using FSD.
And we and our children are even crash test dummies just walking across a crosswalk with FSd Teslas on public roads.
I hadn’t realized it when I posted the comment above about Tesla fanboys wanting to test Tesla FSD with actual children in the road, but two Tesla fanboys actually ran tests with their own children (!!!!!!!!!) and posted them on YouTube, which subsequently took them down.
I would ask “is something wrong with these people?”, But then that would be a silly question.
It does pose a legitimate question, however.
If these Tesla fanboys are willing to sacrifice their own children for Elon Musk, why would they give a rats pitooti about the rest of us?
Why would they even care if they mowed us down when we or our children were crossing the street?
The real dummies are the ones who drive Teslas operating on “Full Self Crash…I mean Driving.
And the ones who drive anywhere near Teslas on the road, since they have a bad habit of braking without warning for no reason at all, which is what caused the recent pileup involving a Tesla.
I got run off the road last year by a Tesla and now I give them a very big berth. If I see one on the highway, I hang waaay back.
The other real dummies are the ones who don’t question just why Musk has been selling so any billions of his stock, some of it when it reached its peak price.
A wary investor might take it as a sign when the CEO of the company starts selling his stock like there is no tomorrow because, hey, maybe (just maybe) he knows something the rest don’t.
The Wreck of the Elon Musk barrel
Elon Musk will crash and burn
When his Tesla fortunes turn
What remains will just be hype
From the pre-owned salesman type
Musk has sold nearly $40 billion in Tesla stock , $23 billion in 2022 alone.
What CEO with faith in his own company does that?
People make a big deal of Musk’s “losses” in 2022 — which were largely artificial, since Tesla stock was waaay overvalued — but, who are the real losers? Elon who sold nearly $40 billion of his stock (some of it actually at its peak valuation)? Or the Tesla investors who held onto their own Tesla stock as it slid into the dumpster? — believing Elon’s empty promises (eg, in April of 2022) that he was done selling stock
I bet Elon is having a good laugh over that at the dinner table.
“. . .bathrooms stink. A billionaire skimping on toilet paper! That’s no way to run a business or a school.”
Seen many a school bathroom that your statement describes. One doesn’t have to be a billionaire to accomplish that. Ordinary adminimals are capable of doing the same.
Your comment made me laugh, Duane.
(But, in reality, I shouldn’t be…not funny.)
In today’s “News of the Rare/Unusual/Unheard of,” Tim Cook, Apple CEO “requests & receives a 40% pay cut after shareholder vote.”
(Meaning it’s down to $49 million.)
Sad.
Only $49 million?
Tim Cook must be stupid.
Elon Musk got a $56 billion pay package in 2018 and defends it (even in court!) to this day.
That ain’t workin’ That’s the way you do it. Money for nothing and your chicks for free.