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My brother worked for Microsoft for several years. He told me that the expectation* there is everyone works a minimum 60 hours, but 80 is encouraged*.
*Read: unvoiced demands enforced by subtle work environment carrots and sticks.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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That's one of the reasons I haven't worked for them since Whistler was in development.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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A few days ago,I made this image / meme[^] for questions just like yours.
Why do people think twitter is _suddenly_ so terrible? Have you liked it all along?
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Oh I agree it has always been garbage.
But prior, I didn't hear Dorsey spewing things to his teams like "deliver this project on my timeline or you're all fired"
Now I'm hearing trash like that.
So maybe before, had I been in a position where I'd have considered employment at Twitter (enough to find more about their workplace environment) now I have enough evidence (for me) that it's someplace I wouldn't want to work, and similarly, if I had worked there in the past, I certainly wouldn't put up with what I'm seeing of the current direction. And basing this on public twits made by Elon himself.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I got a good laugh out of AOC's tweet about 'free speech' being $8/month to twit-head. Hopefully the excess debt he incurred to buy it takes it under. Sorry to any good talent he has, but like you say, hopefully they have found better options. And I hope even the not-so-good talent easily finds other work.
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I honestly want to see the big social media platforms fail, and keep failing until we as a global community pull our heads out of our collective elephant to the degree that we can handle.
"A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on" - the old saw has only been shown terribly true with the addition of the Internet.
And it's not about a failure of critical thinking. The problem is larger than that. Modern propaganda isn't singularly about misinforming anymore. It's about flooding the zone, and exhausting your ability to reason with too much information. Kind of like tobacco companies used to produce damning evidence against them buried under virtual mountains of other discovery, so that no human beings could sift through it in any reasonable time.
We are not ready for mass many to many communication.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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While I suspect that you and I are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, I couldn't agree more. Well said.
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On the bright side, I believe the world has continually improved throughout the years, even if it doesn't feel like it some times. Our problems are far more in our faces than they ever were before, because they are no longer hiding. Some people want to take us back to the good old days. Which ones? Where we interned people of Japanese descent, because that country was at war with us? Where we sterilized Indians without their consent? Where colored people were relegated to serfdom? Hopefully those days are finally behind us, in spite of this last 'huzzah' from those old torch bearers.
When we realize we are all in this together, then things will be a little less depressing, and more interesting!
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We're flirting with the political here, but I will say it looks like at least my country is headed for a dramatic and ugly social reset. I'm not sure what it will look like, or the precise timeline, but I think we're past the point of avoiding it. Societies of millions of people steer like the Titanic, and the proverbial iceberg is already upon us. Society largely responds by attempting to rearrange the deck chairs, and another empire (one of the last) comes tumbling down. Or perhaps not, but every generation recently has had it worse than the last. It's been in fairly steady decline since the 80s and 90s in the US depending on which rubber ruler you use.
I'm not saying things won't get better - but all of my money is on them getting worse first. Such as it is, given my circumstances in their totality, I'm looking for greener pastures among our northern neighbors.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Good luck with your search!
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One of the wisest things I've read in a long time. 
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I'd've been headed for the door the day Elon started the purchase process. Hellish nothing but work from the time you crawl out of bed until you collapse back into it conditions have been a hallmark of engineering culture at every company he runs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I would not have been working at Twitter to begin with.
The addition of Elon just makes a quick exit even more of a priority. I will not touch anything he produces or otherwise gets his hands on.
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Yup. If they would hire me.
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If this is a “get a few major goals met quickly” so we can enjoy some down time over the holidays, I would grind it out.
After rolling out the new verification system or whatever project fell on my team, if they pulled the same deadline sh*t again then I would leave.
I am sure he wants the new verification system and other high priority items in place so that he can sue to claw back some of the purchase price. (and stiff the C suite of their $100+M payouts)
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Don't quote me because I'll deny everything but I heard he runs Tesla this way too.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Wouldn't be surprising given the promises he has made for years, every year, and never delivered on.
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Twitter was polluted. Needed to be cleaned. No info as to development environment, but not for my cup of tea I suspect.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I might, but I probably wouldn't last due to "insubordination".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Not before, because I definitely would not have fit into the "woke" company culture.
Not now, because I am an employee, not a slave.
The question is academic, because they don't have a development centre in Israel)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I would never work for him, no matter if tweeter, tesla or whatever other company he runs or owns.
And if I were already working there, I would have started to look for another thing (even taking a pay cut).
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 2-Nov-22 19:38pm.
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Right now it seems like Elon is taking a revenge as he has already fired the top management & Board of Directors for all the arguments they had regarding the deal.
If he continues to make drastic changes in the working conditions which are not employees friendly then definitely no one will not want to work in such a toxic environment.
Business changes are expected after an organization takeover but how does it impact on the peoples working environment is actually matters
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Absolutely not
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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