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☆ Elon Musk became so paranoid he banned meetings of more than 2 Twitter employees, fearing mutiny or sabotage, author says
  + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk once banned meetings of more than two employees at X, author of "Breaking Twitter" says. Ben Mezrich told Business Insider that Musk was paranoid while CEO of X, formerly Twitter. AdvertisementElon Musk grew so paranoid when he was CEO of X, formerly Twitter, that he banned meetings of more than two employees, the author of "Breaking Twitter" told Business Insider. Mezrich has said he gained "unique access to Twitter employees and Musk's confidants." In an article published in January, The Verge reported that large meetings had been banned at Musk's "hardcore" Twitter.
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☆ A laid-off Twitter manager said the company wanted to make people's lives better, but that 'went to garbage' after Elon Musk's takeover
  + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A former Twitter manager says the company's plans "went to garbage" after Elon Musk bought it. The number of ex-staff suing Twitter "goes up daily," a lawyer fighting the company told the broadcaster. "We wanted to make people's lives more pleasant and more productive," Amir Shevat told the broadcaster. In his less than four months since taking control of Twitter, Musk has introduced sweeping changes to the platform. Shevat told the BBC that Twitter should have laid off staff "in a legal way, empathetic way and a highly communicative way."
☆ Elon Musk reportedly dismissed his Twitter takeover buddy David Sacks during a meeting that was 'too technical' for him
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk dismissed David Sacks from a meeting he said was "too technical," The Verge reported. "David, this meeting is too technical for you," Musk said, according to an anonymous engineer who attended the meeting and spoke to The Verge. Sacks, Musk, and a spokesperson for Twitter did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication. Despite Musk deeming the meeting "too technical" for Sacks, the anonymous engineer appeared to doubt Musk's own technical understanding. "I was writing C programs in the '90s," Musk told the engineer when she attempted to explain the ­company's data-center efficiency.
☆ Laid-off Twitter employees left in the lurch waiting for severance payments 2 months down the line, report says
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk said each laid-off employee would get three months' severance. A lawyer told CNN the separation date for laid-off staff was Thursday but they remain in the lurch. He then followed up in a tweet to say that all laid-off workers were offered three months' severance. However, some former employees told CNN in a report published Thursday that Twitter has failed to send them any information about a severance agreement. A representative for Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer who has filed 100 demands for arbitration on behalf of former Twitter employees, told CNN on Thursday that her clients hadn't received any details about severance from Twitter.
☆ A laid-off Twitter manager says he saw almost his entire team of 150 people get fired in 4 hours just a week after Elon Musk bought the company
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A laid-off Twitter manager said he watched most of his team of 150 staff get fired in four hours. The first wave of Twitter layoffs happened on November 4. "Throughout about three to four hours, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., I saw most of my entire team get fired," Shevat said. Twitter sent Shevat an email to his personal account, saying the company had laid him off. According to Shevat, Twitter said he would receive information about the severance package the following week, but the company never sent it to him.
☆ Laid-off Twitter manager says he was told not to address employees' questions and concerns after Elon Musk's takeover, which felt 'evil'
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
An ex-Twitter manager said being told to ignore his workers' concerns after Musk joined felt "evil." Shevat, who said he looked after 150 staff, told Insider he was laid off with most of his team. "Not only that, we were told as managers not to gather our team and address their questions and concerns. One day, Twitter told Shevat to "stack rank" his team from top to bottom. According to Shevat, Twitter leaders gave managers such as himself no answers about whether they should continue with the work they were doing.
☆ An ex-senior Twitter employee laid off by Elon Musk says the way job cuts were executed was 'inhumane'
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk's handling of Twitter's layoffs was "inhumane," an ex-Twitter worker said, per the LA Times. Some Twitter staff found out they'd been laid off when they were locked out of work laptops. Since losing his job, Shevat has filed arbitration claims against Elon Musk with the help of attorney Lisa Bloom, per the LA Times. "The way Elon Musk executed the layoffs was really inhumane," Shevat said in the conference, cited by the LA Times. Thousands of Twitter employees have been laid off, resigned, or fired since Musk took over.
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