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-Great Cultural Revolution
'An open homophobe and transphobe': Furious Twitter staffers slam Elon Musk and say his ownership will hurt recruiting as they fret over layoffs in emergency staff meeting with CEO Parag Agrawal
2022-05-02
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is tears of his enemies as they are driven before him stuff.
  • Twitter staff lashed out during 'impromptu' all-hands meeting on Friday

  • Many vented fury over Musk's deal to buy the company for $44 billion

  • One staffer accused Musk of being an 'open homophobe and transphobe'

  • Others expressed fears of mass layoffs once the acquisition deal closes

  • CEO Parag Agrawal was described as appearing tired and at times annoyed
    If you strike at the king you must kill him — and he failed. Now he has the distinct displeasure of presiding over mock-worthy revelations and unravellings that he had planned to keep hidden from the light of day, while knowing even that will soon be taken from him.
Beautiful prose!
*blush* I was inspired. :-)
Related:
Parag Agrawal: 2022-04-19 Twitter employees slam 'a—hole' Elon Musk, ask whether he's manipulating stock
Parag Agrawal: 2022-04-13 Elon Musk Now Able to Straight Up Buy Twitter, Pursue Hostile Takeover After Refusing Board Membership
Parag Agrawal: 2022-04-12 Biden Scares America, Media Sweats Elon Musk
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Musk participates in many employee interviews looking for tell-tale traits of genius. (His IQ is 155).

Doubt he's going to find much intelligent life in this playground
Posted by: Regular joe   2022-05-02 15:55  

#10  That's how business works. Lots of lawsuits have a clause like that too. Whatever gets it closed is fine with me. The lefty tech press is down to a story a day about how Musk already violated the deal or can't pay for the deal, or whatever. It isn't whistling past the graveyard, it's bawling hysterically on hands and knees past the graveyard and I'm enjoying every minute of it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-02 11:17  

#9  You'll note that Agrawal and the board have said nothing negative about Musk, and Elon has been very circumspect in his comments about Twitter.
Turns out there's "disparagement clause" in the buyout deal. Nobody gets to call names. The penalty? $1Billion, against either side.
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-05-02 11:10  

#8  Should not be an issue recruiting in Texas, and I suspect the upgrades over the current staff will benefit the company and its users.
Posted by: Angstrom   2022-05-02 10:33  

#7  hurt recruiting? Maybe he doesn't want to recruit your kind.
Posted by: Chris   2022-05-02 09:24  

#6  Bye Felicia.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-05-02 09:00  

#5  They say that like it's a bad thing...
Posted by: Mercutio   2022-05-02 08:24  

#4  Pity the straight white guys who are required to work with those crazies.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-05-02 07:58  

#3  I'm sure lots of them will land "work-from-home" gigs with the new Ministry of Truth. Of course, those jobs will be gone in 6 months too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-02 07:28  

#2  
It is clear that many of the "current" (soon to be weeded out) Bigoted Twitter Staff are MORAL-PHOBIC.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-05-02 06:38  

#1  Same accusations as they used against chick-fil-A, which seems to get far better employees than any other fast food place.
Posted by: Glenmore    2022-05-02 00:45  

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