By David Jeans.
The channels are silent. Lawyers are in a room. The meals were the final ones.
Four top executives, including the CEO, CFO, general counsel and head of legal policy, trust, and safety, were escorted from the company's San Francisco headquarters. Employees are wondering if and when Musk will make good on his reported pledge to investors to cut the workforce by 75 percent.
The arrival of a small battalion of new lawyers this week made one current employee think that people are crazy.
Some staffers are looking to press reports on the outside for clues as to what is happening on the inside, and if they will still have their jobs by the end of the week. There have been no internal communications about the departures. There's no internal comms about anything. Some are learning about developments in real-time through the #TwitterTakeover, where potential misinformation has started to spread, and they are concerned about what may happen under Musk's ownership.
There is no word on when employees will hear from Musk or other senior leaders. There is concern that a mass firing event will take place before Tuesday, November 1, when a major stock vesting is scheduled to take place. Today was supposed to be an all-hands day, but employees haven't heard anything about it. One employee said it was quiet.
A request for comment by Musk was not responded to.
Employees have stopped communicating with each other because they fear that it could jeopardize their jobs. One employee said that Eleon was watching.
Employees have taken to their own platform to discuss issues. Teams and coworkers have gathered for impromptu meals to commiserate and theorize on what's to come or who their boss may be by day's end, with some even likening the gatherings to The Last Supper.
A group of reporters are at the headquarters.
Kenrick CaiOne of the employees said that there was a horse in the hospital with a flamethrower.
In contrast to Musk's recent message to advertisers in which he said that he didn't want the platform to become a "free-for-all hellscape" and that he plans to "show"
He is going to be focusing on the ad-based model a little bit more seriously, than many expected, based on his recent statement. I don't think cutting that many people will help in the early stages.
There have been spikes in applications to the company despite the uncertainty inside. I started a new job at the social networking site. It's a big deal! Kevin O'Brien, senior technical program manager posted publicly on Friday using a crying-laughing face emoji, asking if it was a good time to announce it.
Now that Musk owns it, there will be a huge surge of resume submissions, according to an analyst. It makes it a much more attractive place.
On the heels of the executive firings, outsiders are feeding the frenzy over who is next in line. Videos of employees who have posted about how they spend their days atTwitter are going viral. The right-wing account libsoftiktok posted a video of a woman drinking iced matchas and eating gourmet meals between meetings and said thatelonmusk was firing 75% of them.
Morning Brew posted a parody of TikTok on Friday, showing a day in the life of a Twitter executive before he gets fired. The caption said to just let him finish.
A group of reporters waited in anticipation for employees to start leaving, but for now the scene is quiet.
Kenrick Cai made a report.
All Rights Reserved © 2024
