San Francisco, Nov 13 (Ians) A Twitter manager puked in a trash can after the new owner of microblogging platform Elon Musk directed him to fire hundreds of employees as part of the company’s decision to cut its workforce in half, the media reported.
According to The New York Times, Musk gathered several human-resource executives in a “war room” in the company’s offices and told them to prepare for widespread layoffs.
He said Twitter’s workforce needed to be slashed immediately, and those who were cut would not receive bonuses set to be paid on November 1.
When told to lay off hundreds of employees, one engineering manager puked into a trash can. Others slept in the office while working long hours to meet Musk’s demands.
Several Twitter employees and people close to the company have described the fallout as excruciating, as well as internal documents and workplace chat logs.
According to The New York Times, Musk gathered several human-resource executives in a “war room” in the company’s offices and told them to prepare for widespread layoffs.
He said Twitter’s workforce needed to be slashed immediately, and those who were cut would not receive bonuses set to be paid on November 1.
When told to lay off hundreds of employees, one engineering manager puked into a trash can. Others slept in the office while working long hours to meet Musk’s demands.
Several Twitter employees and people close to the company have described the fallout as excruciating, as well as internal documents and workplace chat logs.
- 11/13/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Twitter’s Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner has left the company along with others overseeing security and privacy at the social media platform thrown into chaos after Elon Musk took the reins.
“I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I’ve had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I’m so proud of the privacy, security, and It teams and the work we’ve done,” Kissner tweeted.
Twitter’s chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer have also quit over the past 24 hours, according to news reports citing an employee’s internal Slack message, and the FTC is “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.”
The staffers were said to be worried about the rollout of new features on Twitter without the full security reviews required by a Federal Trade Commission consent decree, which could add a regulatory headache to the many others facing Twitter right now.
“I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I’ve had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I’m so proud of the privacy, security, and It teams and the work we’ve done,” Kissner tweeted.
Twitter’s chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer have also quit over the past 24 hours, according to news reports citing an employee’s internal Slack message, and the FTC is “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.”
The staffers were said to be worried about the rollout of new features on Twitter without the full security reviews required by a Federal Trade Commission consent decree, which could add a regulatory headache to the many others facing Twitter right now.
- 11/10/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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