Twitter employees who have been laid off over the previous 24 hours aren’t leaving quietly.
“Last Thursday within the SF workplace, actually the final day Twitter was Twitter,” Rachel Bonn, a content material advertising supervisor, tweeted, beside a photograph of herself. “8 months pregnant and have a 9 month outdated. Just obtained minimize off from laptop computer entry.”
Another former worker, Rumman Chowdhury, who labored on machine studying on the firm posted a photograph that confirmed that she had been locked out of her electronic mail. A message on her login display screen learn: “your password was modified lower than an hour in the past.” Alongside the photograph, she tweeted, “Has it already began? Happy layoff eve!”
And a senior engineering supervisor, Joan Deitchman, on the identical crew shared on Twitter what she referred to as her final Slack message to a crew that she stated is now “gone.”
“Know that this was a particular crew. One that caught collectively to the tip, filled with integrity, supporting one another, and keen to face up and do the proper factor,” the message stated. “There will in all probability by no means be a crew like Twitter META once more,” a reference to her crew’s title.
The layoffs come practically per week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and set about to shortly overhaul the social media large. He hasn’t tweeted concerning the layoffs since they began. Instead he lashed out on Twitter about activists “attempting to destroy” free speech by pressuring firms to cease promoting on his service. He stated the exodus has resulted in an enormous drop in Twitter’s income. Meanwhile, the profile language on Twitter’s company Twitter account, as if shocked by all of the upheaval, has been switched to ask nobody particularly: “What’s taking place?!”
In the weeks main as much as the takeover, a number of information retailers reported about Musk’s layoff plans, together with one which stated Musk was planning to chop 75% of Twitter’s workforce of seven,500. The precise complete is anticipated to be 50% of the corporate, or 3,700 staff.
Back on Twitter, one other former Twitter worker, Chris Younie, who labored on leisure partnerships for the corporate, and who appeared resigned to being laid off, wrote: “effectively this isn’t trying promising. Can’t log into emails. Mac wont activate. But so grateful that is taking place at 3am. Really recognize the thoughtfulness on the timing entrance guys.”
Meanwhile, different former employees have posted messages saying they’re grateful and honored to have labored at Twitter, utilizing the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked. Some additionally posted images of them with their colleagues, reminiscing on the recollections they shared.
But not all employees are upset about being let go.
“Honestly pleased to be laid off however the veil of @elonmusk is pierced,” Kushal Dave, the corporate’s former director of engineering, wrote. “As messy as Twitter was pre-elon, it’s a veritable clowntown of politics and toadyism and psychological abuse now. Afraid to get in my Tesla with what I discovered this week.”
“And extraordinarily pissed for the individuals who have been on the flawed aspect of Elon’s courtroom intrigue. This isn’t a sport,” he continued. “Also simply dangerous determination making as a enterprise proprietor.”
Another former worker Kristian Lum, a machine studying researcher, wrote, “and I’m out. Condolences to the survivors.”
Twitter and its former employees cited on this article didn’t instantly reply to Fortune’s request for remark.
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