Twitter Engineers Are Resigning(twitter.com) |
Twitter Engineers Are Resigning(twitter.com) |
Company is not only "proverbial Musk".
That kind of thinking is misplaced loyalty: you think you're being loyal to your colleagues, but really you're being loyal to the owner. Trying to protect your colleagues from a toxic workplace is just a recipe for more toxicity.
Musk will see or feel a difference if Twitter's technology organization collapses to the point that they have trouble maintaining the site (e.g. return of the fail whale).
In all seriousness, I find it an interesting case. There is a lot of speculation on how essential individuals and teams are to a business, let's check back here in a year or so.
At my current gig, some key engineers were let go of, and certain parts of the stack are struggling (and they are reaching out via backchannels). At the same time, the graveyard is filled with irreplaceable people...
Wild ride for sure at Twitter engineering right now.
and now that a vaguely not-beholden-to-democrats figure is in power they're all switching their tune to disingenuous free speech advocacy?
Please, explain.
No, the situations are profoundly different.
You almost certainly don't have the power to "protect your colleagues from a toxic workplace," especially by the mere act of not quitting. So all you can do is try and fail.
If you leave, you have a better chances of actually making things better for yourself, and that may cause the dominoes to fall and get others do the same.
Others can be quite not ready to do the same as I do or plan to do. By helping them to do what they can do best, I am too doing my best.
And I am not even talking about definition of toxicity in work place. What one can see as a dream work place, others can see as a toxic wasteland.
You also continue reduction to absurdity by suggesting that toxicity implies someone's death. Sometimes it did, but it takes much longer time than couple of months.
As we are talking about Elon Musk and quite short span of time, I think your suggestions are also manipulations in an attempt to cancel Elon Musk's Twitter [1].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmvmJonKqpI - "you will not belong to anyone!" a quote from Soviet classic movie.
Twitter, being so far a nice place to work [2] on par with Google, suddenly became toxic place everyone needs to quit. I do not think this is really the case, even remotely.
[2] https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Twitter/reviews
Urging anyone to do what can cause them immediate (financial) harm is not good or ethical.
You need to keep in mind the bigger picture: you all work for the owners, not for each other, and the owners have no loyalty to you. Blurring that fact is an excellent way to be manipulated, because you can be deceived into being loyal to something that does not deserve it.
And frankly the kind of thinking you seem to be advocating has no barrier preventing it from justifying the absurd. Why not volunteer to take a pay cut, to help your colleagues from feeling the heat by allowing the team to have a larger headcount with its budget?
You equate company to the owner, I think that company is also other people.
Volunteer for a pay cut to help your coworkers, then.