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I am not going to invoke his name, but i was thinking as I rode through rain this morning that beyond the risk of Twitter dying a quick and idiotic death, the other major risk for many of us is that - if what he’s doing their actually works - a whole generation of tech company CEOs will have an example they can latch on to for running a tech company like a Victorian workhouse; the small progresses we’ve made on reducing workplace toxicity and unreasonable working practises are on the line.
One thing is for sure - those minor steps forward have been almost entirely in spite of and not thanks to leaders in large tech companies, and the progress has been a convenient PR friendly aside to the things they really care about. If they see an example of treating people like shit actually working, it’ll spread like wildfire - they all talk to the same small cabal of investors and same small clique of board members who would love to squeeze us all a bit harder in the pursuit of a quick buck.
We’re all going to owe a debt of gratitude to the people at Twitter who don’t stick around, and who put themselves in difficult personal circumstances because they’re unwilling to be treated like garbage for the sake of one’s man incredibly fragile ego. They’re our best chance of preventing every tech company in 2023 looking like Twitter does in late 2022.
Now the attack is on remote work. This is a fully fledged A/B test on how tech companies should work post-2022. If he succeeds, or even just fails in an unremarkable way then expect the widespread rolling back on flexible working arrangements, remote work policies and all of the other things we’ve managed to edge into the working methodologies of tech companies. With tech layoffs now in the hundreds of thousands companies will have to do much less to attract talented folks to join them.
Oh, and also in sustainable manager:IC ratios (via: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/cruel-changes-at-twitter/ by @gergelyorosz) and the very premise of professional management staff. Honestly as bad as all this is for Twitter the platform the ramifications are so much wider than that.
Here we are - now they’re coming for diversity initiatives, and whilst it may be this particular clown breaking rank first you can be sure there’s lots more lining up behind him.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-waning-days-of-dei-s-dominance-9a5b656c