Are there any actual liberal tears over this? I assume there must be some, somewhere, but I never see them.
A lot of journalists are worried and they lean liberal.
Vince 4 (this assumes they’re actually paying)
https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1593706533468135424?s=46&t=Ufpq7mUXHpbsIbz1dqWzUg
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Is it legal in USA#1? It would definitely be illegal in Australia to say “work more hours or you’re sacked” but it’s commonplace for people to work longer hours because they’ll be passed over for promotion if they don’t.
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so, a quick question. does Discourse embed mastodon toots?
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They are not paying. The only reason they did the 3 month thing the first time was that 3 months was the min required by law in all the US jurisdictions where they had employees. Then in places where 2 months was the max, Elon bragged that they had done “50% more than was legally required”.
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It might be problematic to give someone a piece of paper that says you’re fired for not working long hours. But other than that they can just tell you what they want you to do and fire you for whatever reason they want
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I’m really curious how far Twitter drifts before it hits the iceberg. I’m similarly curious how long it takes everyone to migrate to the next thing.
Twitter’s main language is scala. That makes for a learning curve if they’re hiring replacements. It’s not readable for the uninitiated.
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Yeah Australia is a bit more European-like I guess. There’s a 6-month probation period for new hires where you can be let go at any time. After that, you can be summarily fired for serious misconduct, but if you just displease the boss or something you have to be given a written warning before being fired, and employees can bring a case for unfair dismissal to the Industrial Relations Tribunal, whereupon the employer has to demonstrate that the firing was justified. Or the employer can make the position redundant (i.e. say that it no longer exists) in which case you get a payout, and again there are legal remedies if the employer tries shenanigans like “making the position redundant” then hiring someone else to do the same job.
I think it’s unlikely it will collapse, I think it will die a death of a thousand cuts as small breakdowns in relability, security, objectionable content filtering and so on make it increasingly less appealing to advertisers. I think that the blue checkmark debacle and “Twitter is at heart a software and servers company” from Elon the other day demonstrates that he thinks that Twitter is a company which makes a product for users, rather than that users are the product and advertisers are the customers. Twitter can go on doing a “good enough” job at delivering the website for users, and I think it will, but if the brand turns into the butt of jokes, as is already happening, it will go bankrupt anyway.
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