They fire an employee who slept in the office to show loyalty to Musk - Business

They fire an employee who slept in the office to show loyalty to Musk – Business – Economy

Mitchell G. Patton4 years ago

Twitter laid off at least 200 employees, 10% of its workforce, the newspaper reported The New York Timesnow that the cuts of employees appear in the technological giants of the United States.

This new round of layoffs includes product managers, experts in big data and engineers working on machine learning and platform reliability, the US newspaper reported on Sunday, though Twitter would not immediately guarantee the reports.

Esther Crawford, in charge of product development for the social network, was one of the fired employees, according to him Times. Crawford was one of the few executives who worked at Twitter before it was acquired by tycoon Elon Musk in October who had not resigned or been fired.

Head of the new signature verification program, Blue TwitterCrawford had been a strong supporter of Musk and company, Going so far as to retweet a photo of her sleeping at her workplace and creating the hashtag #SleepWhereYouWork (#DuermeDondeTrabajas) as a way to encourage other employees to sleep at the Twitter headquarters to meet the deadlines requested by the company.

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“The worst thing you could think when you see me bet everything on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or my hard work was a mistake,” he wrote on the social network on Sunday night, by way of response to those who criticized the decision. “I am deeply proud of the team for building through all the noise and chaos,” she added.

The worst you could take seeing me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or hard work was a mistake. Those who jeer and jeer are necessarily on the sidelines and not in the arena. I am deeply proud of the team for building through all the noise and chaos. 💙

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) February 27, 2023

For his part, the new CEO of Twitter has fired nearly 3,700 employees throughout the last months of 2022, thanks to the budget cuts they have made.

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Another relevant dismissal would be that of Martijn de Kuijper, founder of Revue, which is now also part of Twitter. “Waking up to discover that I have been blocked from accessing my email. It seems they let me go. Now my Revue journey is truly over,” he tweeted.

Other giants in the technology sector, including Amazon, Alphabet -Google’s parent company- and Meta -Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp parent company-, have announced thousands of layoffs in the last year.

I woke up to find that I had been blocked from accessing my email. It seems that he let me go. Now my Revue journey is truly over 🫡

—Martijn (@mdekuijper) February 26, 2023