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Yeah, being let go is never easy but being told by email is like being dumped by text! Money certainly didn’t give you class, Elon Musk!
@Angeles: at least they were informed. In Investment Banking you find out only when you try and enter the building and your pass doesn’t work. Plus seems like very generous severance..3 months pay! And that’s tax free!
@Angeles: The Stripe boys are getting a gentle ride in the Irish media, didn’t they email all staff to let them know of upcoming redundancies,by upcoming they qualified it as actually in 15 minutes anyone getting let go would get an email re same…15 minutes, but in fairness as Billionaire businessmen go,they are neighbours children I suppose,so let’s stick to that awful foreigner Musk.
@Mark: it isn’t generous if you worked there for 10 years and also not legal here. They by law have a redundancy fund to pay for it.
@Craic_a_tower: it’s incredibly generous as these people are on high salaries. Ireland caps redundancy calculations at a max gross salary of €600 a week. These staff got far more generous than statutory.
Also, why should tenure count for redundancy? It should be based on salary if anything.
@Gerry Campbell: The stripe boys actually had compassion and empathy in their communications. They didn’t lock people out of the office. There are no reports of 8 month pregnant women or a father on leave taking care of his son with cancer being let go. They’ve actually engaged with external companies to help their affected teams find employment, even personally tweeting about the directory of talented employees available.
There are clearly reasons why Musk and the Stripe brothers are being judged differntly
@Gerry Campbell: they’re getting an awful soft ride compared to Musk.
@Gingy Opinion: do you really believe that of the 2000 people that have been let go by Stipe that there’s no chance that one of them is pregnant or off work sick? Come on man.
@Andrew Lavelle: what Stripe have done versus Twitter is night and day. Look at their statement on website.
https://stripe.com/ie/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees
Severance pay, Unused PTO paid, bonus paid for 2022, RSU vesting etc. They clearly don’t want to let people go in Stripe but they are doing all they can to cushion the blow.
@Angeles: You’re right. He should have made 3700 phone calls instead…
@Mark: tenure goes legally count for calculating redundancy in Ireland. It’s worth getting your facts and understanding together before trying to engage I discussion on said topic.
@Mark: tenure should count. Employees aren’t just the ‘hired help’. They contribute hugely to the company regardless of their position or salary. The value of employees’ experience and knowledge is vastly undervalued by owners and management who focus solely on bonuses and making money for investors.
@Mark: Re: your comment “Ireland caps redundancy calculations at a max gross salary of €600 a week”.
That’s only for Statutory Redundancy. There is no cap for non-Statutory Redundancy.
@Mark: very ill informed. Tenure does count and not everyone is well paid in Twitter. To operate a company in Ireland you have to abide by the rules. He literally cannot treat all employees the same as they do in the USA. These people weren’t fired they were made redundant which are very different things
@Angeles: The people laid off are being employed until February but told to chill at home along with getting 12 weeks redundancy package on top. That’s a good gig .
Way less drama about all the companies in Ireland over the last 10 years who just shut their doors on employees and gave sweet feck all redundancy .
@JP Vaughan: that never happened because everyone gets redundancy by law and the state act when it is not given so you always get redundancy. Companies over I think 20 employees all have to have a redundancy fund
@Kevin Farrell: thanks for reiterating my point
@Paolo Fandango: I never said it didn’t, my point was that it shouldn’t.
@Craic_a_tower: average pay is €60k, that’s very high compared to the median. But evidently not that high in your estimation
https://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Employer=Twitter/Salary
@Mark: it’s good by USA standards. They’ll have to pay a bit more to their long-term Irish staff.
@Paolo Fandango: Exactly. What’s he talking about? Does he think that someone who joined a company the week before last should get the same amount of severance as someone who worked there for 20 years?
@Gareth Miskelly: show me the twitter package for comparison.
@Mick Hyland: why shouldn’t they? Especially if they’re doing the same job. It dissuades people from moving jobs, thus holding wages down, and only ensures that the best employees leave. The worst staff are rewarded
@Andrew Lavelle: I said there are “no reports” of those type of callous decisions coming from the Stripe employees. It is just one of the many difference in the details between the two situations that is leading to the contrast in the general publics response to both events
Only way to teach him a lesson is do not buy anything he makes
@Anthony Ross: alright, ill delete the tesla car and SpaceX rocket from my basket.
@G man: just because you can’t afford a Tesla doesn’t mean others can’t!! Perhaps that’s who the comment was aimed at..
@Tom Kelly: Get invited to many parties, Tom?
The world of Elon Zuckerberg and Mark Musk is well and truly dystopian.
He is becoming a very dangerous man with his support for Putin and Trump meddling in word affairs will hopefully destroy him.
@David Harries: What’s wrong with supporting Trump?
@Padraic Burke: same.reason stated above innthe article for Musk “erratic billionaire who is dangerously unqualified to run this platform” !
@David Harries: Don’t forget Xi Jingping. Thinking Taiwan should do a 1 country 2 systems approach is the biggest load of nonsense Musk has said in quite some time. Chinese shill to a corrupt regime.
@Padraic Burke: are you serious?
These so called civil rights groups are a disgrace. They are terrified of free speech and want one narrative. It’s very similar to fascism.
@Celtic Eagle: Civil rights are the opposite to fascism. May I suggest that you go buy a dictionary before you start sprouting off online.
@Celtic Eagle: “Celtic Eagle”! Is that the best name you could come up with? That’s embarrassingly bad. Hilarious.
@Celtic Eagle: Musk is blaming civil rights groups for advertisers leaving but the fact is Musk himself is to to blame . He has giving worrying signs he will turn Twitter in to a total hell scape , he himself tweeted a conspiracy theory from a crazy website. He has fired a large portion of content moderators. Also he is allowing any troll to buy verification. Musk need to look to himself for the issues .
@Celtic Eagle: freeze peach warrior has landed.
The personal attacks don’t bother me lads. Just letting ye know!!
@Celtic Eagle: Where did I attack you, simply pointed out you are using words wrong.
@Denis Ryan: There is a difference between civil rights and civil rights groups. You made a mistake. No doubt you will apologise.
@Celtic Eagle: Yes there is a difference civil rights group are the ones who advocate for civil rights. Have you brought that dictionary yet, Mr stormfront Ireland.
@Denis Ryan: liberals like you can’t handle opposing views. That much is clear. You resort to personal attacks. Another thing we notice is liberals are not very intelligent when you engage with them.
@Celtic Eagle: Not on your best day and me on my worst are you more intelligent than me. You don’t know my politics. I am social Liberal, fiscal conservative. You should be able to do anything you want as long as you don’t physically effect anyone around you but all these liberties have to paid for somehow in a world of limited resources.
@Denis Ryan: you have already proven that you are not intelligent. You don’t even realise the mistake you made. Arrogance is a trait of liberals.
@Celtic Eagle: Once again not a Liberal but you don’t have the capacity to understand. Right wingers love to label people.
@Denis Ryan: your a liberal for short. Your last sentence is very ironic
@Celtic Eagle: More ironic than comparing civil rights groups to fascism? Have a coffee and wake yourself up. Don’t worry our new brown, black, Asian and slavic populations won’t hurt you. You are all about concern hiding your racism.
@Denis Ryan: if you go back and read all of the comments between you and the Eagle, would you say you have acted with dignity and respect? Are you proud of what has been said? It is pat hetic to watch two presumably grown up adults throw school yard insults at eachother over something so incredibly trivial and ultimately unimportant.
@Celtic Eagle: if you go back and read all of the comments between you and Denis, would you say you have acted with dignity and respect? Are you proud of what has been said? It is pat hetic to watch two presumably grown up adults throw school yard insults at eachother over something so incredibly trivial and ultimately unimportant.
@James Kerins: Was there respect and dignity in you 3700 phonecalls comment above?
@Denis Ryan: your*
@Denis Ryan: Fair point – I’m sure “Eagle” likes his bird of prey choice, but it isn’t a friendly or generous image.
@Celtic Eagle: And you are upset that others use personal attacks????? Seriously. At least try to be consistent within a single thread.
This man is a businessman. But he is a businessman who believes in free speech within reason. If you have something to say, say it, and use twitter to do it. You can use it to promote yourself or your business or your beliefs. But you must abide by the laws of the land. It’s not killing anyone.
He stated just yesterday that he has a “strong commitment to content moderation” and says that this “remains absolutely unchanged”.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588666105023041536
His goal is to get people to pay for speaking rights, and in order to ensure that he isn’t branded as hindering speech, he virtue signals that he is a free speech absolutist.
Musk will IPO it in two years and double his money!
He’s the richest man on the planet because he sees the opportunity.
@Niall Power: Musk paid $52 a share for a company some analysts say is worth $13. Elon Musk just destroyed his wealth. Tech companies are over valued and a correction is already happening. This deal proves he’s not that smart.
@Niall Power: twitter is the next MySpace, its already a dinosaur
@Allora: he didn’t destroy it’s wealth the debt has been put back on twitter. Musk will lose very little. Quite possible the ones laid off now could get better terms than the next wave.
@Niall Power: It would have been easier for you to just say you have no idea how IPOs work, or what is needed to launch one
@OnlyHereForTheComments: It’s amazing the amount of nobodies on here that think they know better than the richest man in the world!
Elon Musk… makes Liz Truss look competent!
This all reminds me of playing Monopoly, he’s sold or mortgaged off stuff to buy those last to expensive properties on the the board… he’s soon going to see there’s only maybe a 20% chance of anyone landing on them. He’s playing a dangerous game.
Imagine buying a company for 41 Billion usd and said company is losing 4 million usd a day. And he’s meant to be a genius? I think he’s had it. That mouth got him into trouble he wasn’t allowed back out of.
@D Writer:
I never looked into it but twitter is way over-hyped https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
bleddy pinterest has double the users
if you work in big corporates, you are owed nothing, and you are nothing, there is no loyalty and the sooner people start seeing it for what it is the better. What do you expect. You can offer all the free yoga, free lunches, free whatever and wrap it up in a lovely “culture of caring for employee’s” all you want, at the end of the day you are an expendable asset and the culture you so desperately crave is a culture of the company’s bottom line and shareholders if you are in the way of that, simply by doing your job you will be gone and when the bottom line goes black they will get someone else in to do your job either for less money or wrapped up into another role. Same with the big push to have everyone back in the office instead of work from home, because not having people in the office has NOTHING to do with a culture of wellbeing or collaborative work, its a culture of making money, no people in ridiculously priced offices equals losing money, hence everyone get back in the office.
Twitter is no different, execution was ham fisted and severe, but is a clean cut, dragging it out over years just puts undue stress on everyone involved.
His money his company when ya own something ya can do what you want with it ….he dosent tell you who to get to paint your house….its his business
The twitter board called his bluff. He’s a great man for what he has achieved but messed up on this one. There is no way twitter can a more pure free speech platform in the current climate. He overpaid for a turkey that will damage Tesla share prices due to his association.
Lovely to see everyone crying about twitter.
It was such a wonderful company before he bought it. Owned by the nicest people.
A billionaire bought the most toxic social media platform in the world and is trying to change it. What a horror. Stop acting like Twitter is worth saving…
We’re acting like it’s the first company in history to lay people off. Who actually thought he was going to buy it and not clear house.
In my book when you are “Fired” it’s because you did something terrible, breached company confidentiality, theft etc. and takes immediate effect. If your employer needs to reduce staff numbers for some reason then your job is made “Redundant”.
Being “Fired” implies you are not fit to be an employee. Typical American “don’t give a dam” attitude.
@John Hagin Meade: when you’re fired you dont receive your salary for the next few months nor get to keep your benefits such as healthcare for that time either. These people were were not fired, they were made redundant as the company is deep in the red. Also, the fact that the millions of twitter users didn’t see their accounts crash today tells me many of them were probably not needed.
Why are people griping? He’s a capitalist behaving accordingly. You hardly expect anything else from an ass but a roar.
Drastic measures needed, not many companies could survive losing $4mil a day……
This is going to end like Lehmans Bros and what Musk is doing now cozying up with Republicans because he is banking on them bailing him out
Never any choice when you are a billionares plaything
Musk Trump they’re all the one
3 ghosts will visit Elon. Bah humbug.
“Jessica Gonzalez… at the nonpartisan group Free Press, said… social media goes off the rails to misinform, intimidate and harm voters of color.”
So “voters of color” don’t realise when they are being harmed, but everyone else can? What nonsense!
Despite the obvious intelligence of Musk and the Collison brothers, isn’t it amazing that when it comes to employee entitlements, they seem to know little about the protection of Employment Act. 1977.
Years ago, an American multi national was similarly letting staff go. Staff checked their voicemail daily to see if they were still employed!
capitalist pig.
Think 44 million a small bit of a typo
Moved to Countersocial. My god, they are far better behaved.
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