Twitter officials warned of a “mass eviction” of staff when Elon Musk took over the company, one of whom described the world’s richest man as “a man of dubious ethics.”
Employees were invited to an all-hands meeting Monday through a video link hosted by CEO Parag Agraval and Brett Taylor, chairman of the board. The questions sent by the employees during the 45-minute meeting were read by the Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Berland.
One question asked in a recording received from Project Veritas was: “How do the board and Mr. Musk plan to deal with the mass exodus, given that the acquisition is by a person with questionable ethics?”
Taylor replied that “one of the topics of today is continuity.”
He said: “The issue of exhaustion: As Parag said, one of the topics today is continuity and ensuring that Parag and this leadership team continue to run the business successfully on behalf of our customers, on behalf of our customers, and that it has obviously been great topic for discussion on the board.
“And as I mentioned, an area that is important to Elon Musk because of the importance of Twitter as a service.”
Leslie Berland, chief marketing officer, read questions sent by Twitter employees on Monday
Musk, the world’s richest man, was described on Monday by one of his future employees as a “man of dubious ethics.”
Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco is pictured on April 25. During Monday’s meeting, many officials asked if they would still be allowed to work from home.
Agraval said he had seen many questions about the process, the participation schemes and future working conditions. He said a lot needs to be clarified.
Officials were told there would be no layoffs “currently” – but no guarantees were given when Musk took office.
But as a sign of possible internal unrest, the launch of new products was postponed amid fears, Bloomberg speculated, that employees could be “misled” and “push something or mess with the product when they leave the door.”
Agraval told employees that their stock options would turn into money when the deal with Musk was completed, which he said would take three to six months.
According to The New York Times, he also said that they will continue to receive bonuses according to the Twitter schedule.
Employees will receive the same compensation packages for one year after the deal is finalized, Agraval added.
He said he would try to hold a staff forum with Musk and said he would remain with the company as CEO, at least until the deal is finalized.
“He wants Twitter to be a powerful, positive force in the world, just like all of us,” Agraval told Musk.
“He believes Twitter matters.”
He called on employees to “work with Twitter as we have always done”, adding that “how we run the company, the decisions we make and the positive changes we make – this will be up to us and under our control”.
Twitter employees share their concerns in internal chat rooms, messages seen from the New York Post show.
“We are all going through the five stages of grief in cycles and everyone’s nerves are exhausted,” wrote a senior software engineer at Slack’s internal channel.
The clerk called Musk a “hole” and tried to comfort his colleagues.
“We all spin our wheels and come up with the worst-case scenarios (Trump is back! No more moderation!”).
– The fact is that [Musk] he did not talk about what he planned to do in detail, other than broad broad statements that could easily be seen as a hyperbolic demonstration, “he added.
A site reliability engineer wrote that it was “physically unpleasant to watch Elon talk about free speech.”
A senior video engineer announced his plans to leave, saying: “It may not be the place to say it, but I will not work for this company after the takeover.”
The riots began as soon as Musk’s successful takeover was confirmed on Monday.
“I feel like I’m going to throw up. I don’t want to work for a company owned by Elon Musk,” said one employee, according to New York Times reporter Talman Smith.
The Smith source told him he was “absolutely insane” in the inner chat rooms.
Another Twitter employee reportedly complained, “I don’t know what to do… oh my god, my phone exploded… We have a meeting about this at 5:00… ният the CEO will ask everyone about it” (it = ilon).
I hate him, why does he want that at all?
The 50-year-old Tesla mogul agreed to pay shareholders $ 54.20 in cash for each share of common stock before the bombing
Musk vowed to defend freedom of speech on Twitter, “defeat spam bots” and “authenticate everyone” while welcoming the acquisition.
He also revealed that he plans to “improve the product with new features” and “make open source algorithms to increase trust”.
But the company was shaken by the announcement.
“I feel like he’s this annoying little boy and he’s doing this to troll… he doesn’t know anything about our policies and what we’re doing… his statement about our algo was damn crazy
“Would we just let everyone get mad?” “Nobody knows,” the official said, according to the New York Times.
Some Twitter employees “openly rebelled” against Musk, one observer said, posting a screenshot of Github’s official Twitter site and posting a public response entitled “The Algorithm” – with zero code.
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