Screenshots released by Twitter employees show that the new management is discussing layoffs in a Slack channel that is visible to the whole company , and arbitrarily determines who will be fired. The dismissal of nearly half of Twitter's staff has been dramatic since Elon Musk took over. Screenshots of chats saved by some former Twitter employees show the way Twitter's new management has handled issues even more comical.
Musk has tweeted to justify the mass layoffs, saying firing Twitter employees was something he had to do to ensure Twitter could survive. The way Twitter fires employees is weird. While Twitter notified most fired employees via email, a number of former employees said they found themselves fired because their work laptops and systems were formatted remotely, unable to log into work-related emails or Slack system.
But Twitter management extended an olive branch to dozens of employees who had been wrongly fired after firing nearly 3,700 people in a fairly random fashion. Company management also proactively reached out to several Android and iOS developers, mostly finding that these people had the skills and experience to execute Musk's plan to revamp Twitter.
Twitter user Gergely Orosz made the layoffs even less serious. He tweeted: The people who created the Slack channel didn't expect it to be public by default and everyone could see it. They discussed a lot about how to fire employees, such as Musk's desire for every department to have a copy of fired employees. Checklist and related links. They realized the mistake later.
Twitter's new management is largely composed of engineers Musk brought in from Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company. In addition to Twitter, Musk's other companies are used to Microsoft MS Teams for internal communication. Twitter management decided to create a Slack channel for internal communication. The problem is that MS Teams channels are private by default, but Slack channels are public by default, which means everyone who works on Twitter can see the chat.
Twitter's new management discussed many of the company's layoffs in the channel, such as Musk's desire to have a complete list of layoffs within the company. Presumably, they also made a layoff list and shared it on the Slack channel. Twitter employees with access to chats and layoffs took screenshots before company management realized the Slack channel they were communicating with was public company-wide. From the chats and the list, it can be seen that the fired Twitter employees are selected at random, and there will be no exit interviews.