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[wjfox]

[caltrek]

^Hard core in support of what vision?

A libertarian environment for multi-billionaires and misery for everybody else?

[Xyls]

Lol. Pretty sure changing the contract without acceptable notice if they were promised remote positions is considered constructive dismissal and could put Elon even more on the hook as people leave this sinking ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

See the "Change in schedules in order to force employee to quit (title 12)" in the US section which this could be interpreted as especially with his now 40 hour weeks, and now have to be at the office with no notice. Canadian employees it is even more explicit with: relocating the employee's workplace. Which means if they signed an employment contract where the understanding was they would be remote and you just changed it then technically they can say they were constructively dismissed and you now have to pay them out.

Elon clearly doesn't understand HR law.

[Xyls]

Big news... this is gonna cause all the advertisers to walk...



Twitter is gonna sink by the end of the year. Expect an employee exodus.

Truly the worst managerial skills I think ever shown. Elon burning 44 billion up just like that... lol...

[caltrek]

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Elon clearly doesn't understand HR law.

Understand, or just simply flat out doesn't care?

Consider this from former Department of Labor Secretary Robert Reich:

Billionaires like Musk have shown time and again they consider themselves above the law. And to a large extent, they are.

Elon has enough wealth that legal penalties are no more than slaps on his wrist, and enough power to control one of the most important ways the public now receives news.

Think about it: after years of posting tweets that skirt the law, Elon now owns the platform.

Musk says he wants to “free” the internet. But what he really aims to do is make it even less accountable than it is now, when it’s often impossible to discover who is making the decisions about how algorithms are designed, who is filling social media with lies, who’s poisoning our minds with pseudo-science and propaganda, and who’s deciding which versions of events go viral and which stay under wraps.

Make no mistake: this is not about freedom. It’s about power.

Source: https://janataweekly.org/elons-twitter/

[caltrek]

Big news... this is gonna cause all the advertisers to walk...



Twitter is gonna sink by the end of the year. Expect an employee exodus.

Truly the worst managerial skills I think ever shown. Elon burning 44 billion up just like that... lol...

A little early to come to that conclusion, but it sure as hell looks like you are making the right call here. Maybe not all 44 billion, but a huge chunk of it. My guess is he is spending a lot of time thinking about that problem. A wonder such little evidence to show for it.

Of course, it may very well be that Musk prefers a shrunken Twitter that he controls, and that price is truly no object. So, if it does collapse, I hope that collapse is complete. As I have written elsewhere, I do care about the employees. I hope and even expect that many of them will find bigger and better positions at places such as Mastodon.

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[weatheriscool]

Twitter restores 'official' label; $8 blue check mark option vanishes
Source: Reuters

Nov 11 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's Twitter Inc on Friday brought back the "official" badge to some accounts, just days after doing away with it, while several users reported the new subscription option for the blue verification check mark had disappeared.

The move follows a surge in fake accounts on the platform after new boss Elon Musk allowed users to pay $8 for the coveted blue check mark that was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, actors and other major personalities.

Fake accounts of several big brands have popped up with the blue check, including Musk's Tesla (TSLA.O) and SpaceX as well as Roblox, Nestle (NESN.S) and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N).

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Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) issued an apology after an imposter account tweeted that insulin would be free, amid political backlash and scrutiny into the high prices of the medicine.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk ... 022-11-11/

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