Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Look, I am not anti-remote work. It's just harder to manage remote people

[quote name="Mysterio"][quote name="blackwater"]You have the wrong impression about what Musk is trying to do. You're assuming he's trying to keep a lot of the old crew. That is not the case. He'd replace them all if he could (he can't). Remember his original plan was to cut 75%. If there is more attrition as a result of removing WFH perks, he considers that a GOOD thing. Lines of code is a shitty metric but it's an objective one that can't be argued. If Musk gets sued for discrimination or whatever he can say, "not my fault. I just followed the metric and cut the X% bottom people"[/quote] [twitter id=1592189767168692225] [twitter id=1592259938109521922] [twitter id=1592215847358996485] [quote name="blackwater"][quote name="Horus Truthteller"]Remote work isn't going anywhere.[/quote] Sure. It is objectively easy to find remote work these days. The Twitter people will be fine, just fine. I even know some of them. They are all very wealthy by median American standards. Their <a href="https://www.levels.fyi/companies/twitter/salaries/software-engineer">ENTRY LEVEL COMP</a> is $163,000 / year. For senior people it can go up to around $500,000 / year. And since the value of the stock held up over the last year (thanks Elon!) those stock comp numbers are still valid. These are the people that NYT has their panties in a twist about. Ridiculous. This is almost hedge fund (hedgie) levels of money.[/quote] I'm reminded of that kickstarter email that got passed around a few years ago where the management said employees shouldn't unionize because that's something for blue collar workers and it would be cultural appropriation. Working class is working class, from SEIU working stiffs to celebrity actor SAG-AFTRA members. The ultimate tactic of an organized working class is the ability to carry out a general strike, which by definition would include code jockeys. Setting up artificial distinctions based on race or current income levels are merely divide-and-conquer tactics. No, I'm still going with the "Elon's a rich idiot whose daddy's money and IT contacts allowed him to fail upwards" interpretation of the situation: [twitter id=1591966011053465601][/quote]