give up Twitter, or put together to get “hardcore” • TechCrunch

Occasions are altering at Twitter. In about two weeks beneath Elon Musk’s management, Twitter has fired over 3,700 individuals, and a slew of high-ranking execs have resigned. However the firm’s personnel modifications aren’t ending there. Based on a report from The Washington Publish, Musk despatched a late evening e mail providing the remaining Twitter staff a selection: they’ll both resign and obtain three months severance pay, or they’ll decide to a “hardcore” work surroundings.

Twitter staff have till 5 p.m. Jap time on Thursday to make up their minds.

“Going ahead, to construct a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and reach an more and more aggressive world, we’ll should be extraordinarily hardcore,” the letter reads. “This can imply working lengthy hours at excessive depth. Solely distinctive efficiency will represent a passing grade.”

Musk issued a equally intense e mail to employees final week, when he ended distant work successfully instantly.

In his quick tenure, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has already set product deadlines so aggressive that deleted tweets from staff advised that they needed to sleep on the workplace. However after a botched rollout of Twitter Blue verification, he pushed that product re-launch again to November 29, not less than in response to his personal tweets.

As Twitter staff weigh the ultimatum that landed of their inboxes late final evening, Musk continues to seek out time to shitpost.

On Tuesday, after several Twitter employees posted that they had been fired for criticizing Musk, the “Chief Twit” posted a selfie with two actors who pretended weeks in the past to be laid off Twitter staff.

On the day after Musk took over the platform, the actors walked previous a crowd of journalists who had been camped outdoors the Twitter HQ, carrying packing containers as if they had been simply fired. One claimed his title was “Rahul Ligma,” a transparent giveaway that he was trolling (please, don’t make me clarify the Ligma meme once more), however sadly, the journalists on the scene weren’t very meme-literate and reported the layoff of “Ligma” as truth. On the time, Musk had not but started conducting the anticipated mass layoffs.

“Welcoming again Ligma & Johnson!” Musk tweeted two weeks later, posing with the trolls. “Essential to confess after I’m flawed & firing them was actually one in all my largest errors.”

The message is particularly cringe-worthy provided that Twitter requested some staff to return again after they had been lower within the mass layoffs.