Elon Musk Purges Thousands More Twitter Employees – No One Notices The Difference

Zero Hedge

A good measure of the value of an employee to a company is if their absence makes things more difficult for everyone else, or their absence is barely noticed.  If an employee makes no difference and adds no value then there is no point in keeping them around.

Twitter is quickly becoming a blaring example of this issue.  Alleged leaks from within the company suggest that most employees under previous management barely worked and are devout “communists” (Ed: ??? from what I read, they were more likely ex-FBI or ex-CIA agents and I sincerely doubt they self-identify as communists) with a hatred of free speech.  The leaks also claim that Twitter employees were far more concerned with censoring anti-establishment voices than doing their jobs.

From comments made on social media by employees since Musk’s takeover, it appears that these rumors are correct.

For many years now Twitter has operated less like a company and more like a cult compound for liberal ideologues, with free lunches, yoga rooms, smoothie bars, wine bars, expresso bars, and minimal work buffered by pointless meetings and near zero productivity. The company runs a collectivist daycare for overgrown children; 7500 of them along with 5500 outside contractors.

Musk fired at least 3500 primary staff members and it is also recently reported that he has purged at least 4500 outside contractors, many of them moderators tasked with filtering “misinformation”.  Interestingly, Twitter users have not noticed much of a difference in terms of functionality for the platform despite the mass layoffs.  The only difference has been the ability to speak more freely.

Initial reports of the firings led people to speculate that Musk’s actions might be “heavy handed” and that, surely, a lot of employees have nothing to do with the politically motivated side of the platform.  However, employee comments suggest that an internal agenda to sabotage the site is underway, justified by purely political ideals, as well as angry reactions to basic responsibilities such as showing up to work for 40 hours a week.  Musk’s call for free speech on the platform has also elicited a flurry of vitriol, not only from former Twitter management but also a host of average workers.

The mainstream media argues that Musk’s firings of employees attacking his takeover is hypocritical because it runs contrary to his free speech ideals.  This is a rather ignorant notion often employed by liberals as a means to undermine otherwise logical and legitimate measures by free speech advocates to protect themselves from subversion.  Employees on the job do not have free speech rights, and are not protected from being fired if their goal is to throw a monkey wrench into the company’s functionality or survivability.

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