legally twitter has done nothing wrong ( while yeah a bit shiitty) , the employees may ask for WFH , but the employers (twitter) can deny it for a valid reason
He knows, he doesn’t care. The guy is destroying the company bc nobody (in a position of power) has ever had the stones to tell him he’s not a genius, he’s just a narcissist who got lucky and was born into wealth.
If you’re Irish and at twitter, you should leave now.
I’m sure Elon won’t be too unhappy if a few more employees have to hand in their notice. It’s cheaper than redundancy.
How would the WRC view this if employees were sacked for not coming into the office. The employee was still doing the required tasks while also still trying to relocate to be closer to the office. I would think the WRC would view the employee being reasonable in trying move closer and the employer being unreasonable in the time frame given.
Let me get this straight, the salary in Dublin is higher than the rest of the country obviously because the cost of living is high, covid allowed people to wfh in other counties where cost of living is low, now when people are asked to come back to the office everyone loses their mind?
Why are people so outraged about Twitter?
Redundancies and making people go back to the office are happening all over the country. Both have happened in my company recently, another large MNC, and there was barely even a news article about it.
How did someone as painfully stupid as Elon Musk ever get so rich? If that doesn’t prove that we don’t live in any kind of meritocracy, then nothing will.
He wants people out, this is the easiest way to legally get rid of 50% or more of the workforce.
Oh dude knows there’s housing problems everywhere including capital cities. He knows this is a way of getting rid of more people without paying redundancies.
Dudes a woeful cunt. But he’s not dumb.
This is a problem with all jobs being created and announced for Dublin. Can these companies not fuck off and set up or expand to places like Mullingar, Longford or Athlone??!
Its scary that so many stupid people are able to amass so much power and wealth.
I was trying to think of a smart, witty comment. But this guy is a soulless scumbag, simple as. I feel terribly for all of those that have been treated like toys in some mad ego maniacs game. But frankly, you are all better off laid off, than working for a man like this
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The most obvious option is for the entire workforce in the company to unionize and go on strike.
The return to office mandate is for Twitter staff only, not the outsourced crew who are “contracted to Twitter”.
This is his plan though. People won’t or can’t move back to Dublin so they’ll quit without having to pay them redundancy.
I really think one good dig could sort him out.
How many people are in the Dublin office? I don’t agree with what he has done in the short space of time but surely it couldn’t effect that many people? I don’t mean that in an unsympathetic way, it’s actually made me think of giving my spare room to someone effected if they are really stuck.
I worked in an office until the pandemic. Now I do two days in the office and two days at home. Others work fully from home. Both me and them were given new contracts to sign when our official location of work changed. The company literally *cannot* order us back to the office full-time without re-negotiating.
Does Twitter not have something similar for its employees? They been working from home for 2.5 years without a change to their contract?
I don’t think Elon understands the concept of Unions, let alone the power they have in this country alone.
I have a better idea, ignore the Elongated Muskrat and keep doing your job until they actually complain
As always it’s ordinary people who suffer for the temper tantrums of a bunch of silver spoon babies.
The lad basically threw thousands of people’s lives down the drain because he got his feelings hurt.
I remember a few years ago the place I was renting was being sold and I couldn’t find a spot. I was working in a shop and making very little. I ended up back in the parents place in the midlands getting a bus at 6am to Dublin, working till 7, waiting until 10pm for the only bus which went anywhere near my folks place, getting there about 12:30am. Eating leftovers. Getting about 5 hours sleep at best. And up again, repeated that for 4 months… Just to keep a retail job.
I got no sympathy. Many many people were in my position. They got nothing either. Highly paid tech people can drive or commute. It’s like they want preferential treatment over everyone else while doing fuuuuuck all.
Like Ireland is not America, and employees can’t be treated so arbitrarily. Those people need an an employment lawyer. If you’ve been doing your role successfully from home for last 2y it’s difficult enough for an employer to now maintain you’re needed in the office. Got constructive dismissal written all over it.
He’s literally a psychopath
Elon is doing what any business owner would do when they takeover a trainwreck of a company, The blame lies solely at the government for letting companies operate in such away on our Island. I had to leave my country due to redundancies in 2009 and have not been able to return due to lack of work.
I recommend going to doctors and getting a long sick leave due to bad back issues. Or go to the office and just read emails and do nothing else until made redundant with package. Do not leave without the package.
Remote work is the future. But, when you work for a company that is on deaths door, you either conform or get out. No difference here. Tweeting Elon isn’t an effective strategy.
I closed my twitter account a few days ago when I saw what that dude was doing. No way could I support someone with his morals.
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What has Elon musk have to do with state of the housing market? Does he make Policy now?
Not only does Dublin have a severe housing shortage (and has for a decade) and woeful public transport, it also has worse traffic congestion than anywhere in the entire Anglosphere or anywhere west of Poland (bar 4-5 South American cities) – https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/ranking/
He’s running a business that’s hemorrhaging money. Not his fault that we have a housing crises, thats irelands own fault. Get off the “I hate musk” train and think
Bro if you work at twitter you can afford to live in Dublin. If cleaners on 20 thousand euro a year can show up to work you can too LOL
Elon is a pure utter ego, arrogant cunt. I definitely would advise to everyone who works for him change job and ignore all of his useless companies. Shame big shame this fucking cunt bought Twitter and going to ruin it all.
Unfortunately though it’s shit for you this isn’t his problem. Compassion would be nice though.
Unfortunately it’s a companies decision where you work.
Also companies don’t care about your living situation. It’s like someone asking for a raise because their rent went up. Companies do not care. If they’re paying market rate, then you won’t get that rise.
Expecting companies to take into account a housing crisis when it comes to their employees would lead to companies not creating more jobs in Dublin because new employees can’t find anywhere to live.
There’s literally no place to live in Dublin, yet when Workday announced 1k new jobs, no one was like “oh my god, there’s a housing crisis, how do you expect employees to live there!”
Anyone not back at their desk by Monday morning is clearly a pedophile!
Everyone is forgetting he’s a business man who’s trying to make money, I’d do the exact same if I had a bunch of useless cunts sitting around on bean bags all day leeching from my pockets everyone needs to get a grip And realise they’d do the same
Do his orders even matter to a contractor? Especially organisational stuff like where they work from should be none of his business if he is contracting another company.
Fuck Musk
I’ve been saying for ages he’s a muppet. All the crap people speak about him without actually knowing anything about him.
If you work for Twitter and havent spent the last month applying for new jobs I dunno what to tell you.
Also I wonder if they have more Irish staff then they have office space now which could lead to another mess. Because the place I work for physically cant return to the office full time as we staffed up since 2020 and simply dont have a office space for each worker.
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legally twitter has done nothing wrong ( while yeah a bit shiitty) , the employees may ask for WFH , but the employers (twitter) can deny it for a valid reason
He knows, he doesn’t care. The guy is destroying the company bc nobody (in a position of power) has ever had the stones to tell him he’s not a genius, he’s just a narcissist who got lucky and was born into wealth.
If you’re Irish and at twitter, you should leave now.
I’m sure Elon won’t be too unhappy if a few more employees have to hand in their notice. It’s cheaper than redundancy.
How would the WRC view this if employees were sacked for not coming into the office. The employee was still doing the required tasks while also still trying to relocate to be closer to the office. I would think the WRC would view the employee being reasonable in trying move closer and the employer being unreasonable in the time frame given.
Let me get this straight, the salary in Dublin is higher than the rest of the country obviously because the cost of living is high, covid allowed people to wfh in other counties where cost of living is low, now when people are asked to come back to the office everyone loses their mind?
Why are people so outraged about Twitter?
Redundancies and making people go back to the office are happening all over the country. Both have happened in my company recently, another large MNC, and there was barely even a news article about it.
How did someone as painfully stupid as Elon Musk ever get so rich? If that doesn’t prove that we don’t live in any kind of meritocracy, then nothing will.
He wants people out, this is the easiest way to legally get rid of 50% or more of the workforce.
Oh dude knows there’s housing problems everywhere including capital cities. He knows this is a way of getting rid of more people without paying redundancies.
Dudes a woeful cunt. But he’s not dumb.
This is a problem with all jobs being created and announced for Dublin. Can these companies not fuck off and set up or expand to places like Mullingar, Longford or Athlone??!
Its scary that so many stupid people are able to amass so much power and wealth.
I was trying to think of a smart, witty comment. But this guy is a soulless scumbag, simple as. I feel terribly for all of those that have been treated like toys in some mad ego maniacs game. But frankly, you are all better off laid off, than working for a man like this
Edit: typos
The most obvious option is for the entire workforce in the company to unionize and go on strike.
The return to office mandate is for Twitter staff only, not the outsourced crew who are “contracted to Twitter”.
This is his plan though. People won’t or can’t move back to Dublin so they’ll quit without having to pay them redundancy.
I really think one good dig could sort him out.
How many people are in the Dublin office? I don’t agree with what he has done in the short space of time but surely it couldn’t effect that many people? I don’t mean that in an unsympathetic way, it’s actually made me think of giving my spare room to someone effected if they are really stuck.
I worked in an office until the pandemic. Now I do two days in the office and two days at home. Others work fully from home. Both me and them were given new contracts to sign when our official location of work changed. The company literally *cannot* order us back to the office full-time without re-negotiating.
Does Twitter not have something similar for its employees? They been working from home for 2.5 years without a change to their contract?
I don’t think Elon understands the concept of Unions, let alone the power they have in this country alone.
I have a better idea, ignore the Elongated Muskrat and keep doing your job until they actually complain
As always it’s ordinary people who suffer for the temper tantrums of a bunch of silver spoon babies.
The lad basically threw thousands of people’s lives down the drain because he got his feelings hurt.
I remember a few years ago the place I was renting was being sold and I couldn’t find a spot. I was working in a shop and making very little. I ended up back in the parents place in the midlands getting a bus at 6am to Dublin, working till 7, waiting until 10pm for the only bus which went anywhere near my folks place, getting there about 12:30am. Eating leftovers. Getting about 5 hours sleep at best. And up again, repeated that for 4 months… Just to keep a retail job.
I got no sympathy. Many many people were in my position. They got nothing either. Highly paid tech people can drive or commute. It’s like they want preferential treatment over everyone else while doing fuuuuuck all.
Like Ireland is not America, and employees can’t be treated so arbitrarily. Those people need an an employment lawyer. If you’ve been doing your role successfully from home for last 2y it’s difficult enough for an employer to now maintain you’re needed in the office. Got constructive dismissal written all over it.
He’s literally a psychopath
Elon is doing what any business owner would do when they takeover a trainwreck of a company, The blame lies solely at the government for letting companies operate in such away on our Island. I had to leave my country due to redundancies in 2009 and have not been able to return due to lack of work.
I recommend going to doctors and getting a long sick leave due to bad back issues. Or go to the office and just read emails and do nothing else until made redundant with package. Do not leave without the package.
Remote work is the future. But, when you work for a company that is on deaths door, you either conform or get out. No difference here. Tweeting Elon isn’t an effective strategy.
I closed my twitter account a few days ago when I saw what that dude was doing. No way could I support someone with his morals.
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What has Elon musk have to do with state of the housing market? Does he make Policy now?
Not only does Dublin have a severe housing shortage (and has for a decade) and woeful public transport, it also has worse traffic congestion than anywhere in the entire Anglosphere or anywhere west of Poland (bar 4-5 South American cities) – https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/ranking/
He’s running a business that’s hemorrhaging money. Not his fault that we have a housing crises, thats irelands own fault. Get off the “I hate musk” train and think
Bro if you work at twitter you can afford to live in Dublin. If cleaners on 20 thousand euro a year can show up to work you can too LOL
Elon is a pure utter ego, arrogant cunt. I definitely would advise to everyone who works for him change job and ignore all of his useless companies. Shame big shame this fucking cunt bought Twitter and going to ruin it all.
Unfortunately though it’s shit for you this isn’t his problem. Compassion would be nice though.
Unfortunately it’s a companies decision where you work.
Also companies don’t care about your living situation. It’s like someone asking for a raise because their rent went up. Companies do not care. If they’re paying market rate, then you won’t get that rise.
Expecting companies to take into account a housing crisis when it comes to their employees would lead to companies not creating more jobs in Dublin because new employees can’t find anywhere to live.
There’s literally no place to live in Dublin, yet when Workday announced 1k new jobs, no one was like “oh my god, there’s a housing crisis, how do you expect employees to live there!”
Anyone not back at their desk by Monday morning is clearly a pedophile!
Everyone is forgetting he’s a business man who’s trying to make money, I’d do the exact same if I had a bunch of useless cunts sitting around on bean bags all day leeching from my pockets everyone needs to get a grip And realise they’d do the same
Do his orders even matter to a contractor? Especially organisational stuff like where they work from should be none of his business if he is contracting another company.
Fuck Musk
I’ve been saying for ages he’s a muppet. All the crap people speak about him without actually knowing anything about him.
If you work for Twitter and havent spent the last month applying for new jobs I dunno what to tell you.
Also I wonder if they have more Irish staff then they have office space now which could lead to another mess. Because the place I work for physically cant return to the office full time as we staffed up since 2020 and simply dont have a office space for each worker.