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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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Ziggurat said:
A lot of Twitter employees are going to learn the concept of a "loose labor market" the hard way.
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Not really. The problem with his proposal is that only the bad employees will stay. Anyone who is good at their job and has decent connections will land another job before Thursday even rolls around.

It is a great move for getting rid of star talent and securing that in the future you will have trouble hiring star talent.
 
I Am The Scum said:
You mean there actually are horny singles in my area waiting to meet right now??? :jaw-dropp
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JoeMorgue said:
Wife: "I can't this anymore. I'm leaving you. You are just too naïve."
Husband: "I don't have to take this from you. There's horny singles in my area waiting to meet me right now."
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Exactly and I’ll have plenty of money to take my horny singles on dates with as soon as the cheque clears from that Nigerian Prince who turned out to be my long lost uncle.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Not really. The problem with his proposal is that only the bad employees will stay. Anyone who is good at their job and has decent connections will land another job before Thursday even rolls around.

It is a great move for getting rid of star talent and securing that in the future you will have trouble hiring star talent.
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Before went full on Qanon insane Dilbert creator Scott Adams told the story of the creation of the comic's character of "Wally" a lazy but brilliant slackabout side character.

According to the story "Wally" was based on several engineers Adams knew when he worked for a large company (I don't think he ever outrighted named it but HEAVILY hinted it was Ma Bell) who were members of a department that Adams didn't work in but worked closely with, that was going to be downsized. The downsized employees were being offered fairly generous severance packages.

However management leaked (either accidently or under the table on purpose, Adams wasn't sure which but he said neither would surprise him) that the layoffs were going to be the bottom 10% of employees by various work metrics. This lead to the hilarious and surreal joy of spending 6 months or so watching some of the most brilliant telecom techs he ever knew all trying with everything they had to be the bottom 10% on the pie charts. Apparently it was a sight to be seen.
 
Musk has a little luck: The FTX Crypto collapse is taking some of the business news attention away from the Twitter fiasco.
 
dudalb said:
Musk has a little luck: The FTX Crypto collapse is taking some of the business news attention away from the Twitter fiasco.
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It should make things worse. People need to stop relying on personalities as a metric for competence. The FTX scandal should further underline that. But people will insist on believing that if what Musk is doing looks dumb it somehow must prove he is even smarter.
 
angrysoba said:
It should make things worse. People need to stop relying on personalities as a metric for competence. The FTX scandal should further underline that. But people will insist on believing that if what Musk is doing looks dumb it somehow must prove he is even smarter.
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Another prime example of that is going to be sentenced this week, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ceo-elizabeth-holmes-sentencing-b2226957.html

You’d have thought that such cases would make people think twice.
 
Is anyone willing to bet that Musk will lose money on Twitter in the long term?

(Like, by 2030 or so.)
 
For those who don't use it, the vibe on Twitter is that the sight is gonna die any minute now. It reminds me of the queen's last hours.
 
d4m10n said:
Is anyone willing to bet that Musk will lose money on Twitter in the long term?

(Like, by 2030 or so.)
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There is a decent chance that Musk's purchase of Twitter could go down as the most expensive blunder of all time. And I mean expensive in the literal, by-the-dollar-value sense. Those articles could even come out within the next few months.
 
angrysoba said:
It should make things worse. People need to stop relying on personalities as a metric for competence. The FTX scandal should further underline that. But people will insist on believing that if what Musk is doing looks dumb it somehow must prove he is even smarter.
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How anybody can buy the Real life Tony Stark garbage after this fiasco is beyond me.
But I admit, It has been along time since somebody has done such massive damage to his image as Musk has in the past year. From Time Man Of The Year to a late night comedians's punch line in less then 12 months.
 
I Am The Scum said:
There is a decent chance that Musk's purchase of Twitter could go down as the most expensive blunder of all time. And I mean expensive in the literal, by-the-dollar-value sense. Those articles could even come out within the next few months.
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I should add that this entire mess is very likely because Musk wanted the Babylon Bee unbanned.
 
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