New Wave Of Resignations Hit Twitter After Musk's Ultimatum For Employees

The deadline for Twitter employees to decide whether to stay at the company under Elon Musk has now passed as Musk told those who did not share his vision to leave the company. Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco is reportedly shut down until Monday. NBC News’ Jake Ward has the latest.

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[PeterSramka]

I suspect Musk thinks only the best engineers will want to stay at Twitter. But, in reality, only the worst will stay because they are not good enough to find other jobs. The talented people have the easiest time getting new jobs and they will quit if they think they will be treated like crap.

[ByInside]

If you don’t respect people they will not respect you.

- People

[terrathaw]

This has got to be the scummiest things I've ever seen. A billionaire saying "I'm going to exploit the f outta you because I need to recoup at least some amount of money I just hemorrhaged trying to buy ur company so either stay and suffer or get out" and his fans are still defending him online. Insane!

[OK-pifq]

The guys who sold twitter immediately started creating a new one when they first accepted the sale. It seems they now also have an employee base. I wonder how long it will take for them to make it.

[markreyna]

Tesla contacted me for a job so sure I interviewed for it. When I went through the interviews and found out their hours. Plus, all the BS I researched about them. Man, that was a pass instantly. I don't know how people can work for that crazy guy.

[hansadler]

The notion that Twitter is a critical piece of communication infrastructure is ridiculous.

[nccamsc]

Who would want to be enslaved, so that a narcissist can become even more destructive?

[pinklover]

Musk will ask them to come back. Oh wait, that was last week.

[lexsea]

not only did he destroy one of the biggest apps in the world in world record time. he also destroyed his own reputation

[diogenes]

These guys make Twitter sound as important as oxygen. Guess what. The world functioned without it.

[tomtom]

He probably should have found out who wanted to work 80 hrs a week before firing half the company. But what do I know, I'm no billionaire "genius".

[babajinde]

If this is the tool which world leaders communicate with each other that will need to change immediately. Nothing so important can be in the private hands of one individual... Goodbye Twitter

[josephsf]

I have an intuitive feeling that the top employees will master-mind another social platform, to rival Twitter

[jcruz]

Elon is giving a masterclass of how NOT to treat employees and people he needs to run a company.

[rmb]

the fact that we are seemingly so dependent on social media is disturbing...

[periwinkle_fantasy]

They should team up and create Qwitter

[TheWhiteWolf]

This whole disaster of a buyout has been nothing short of entertaining to watch. Twitter is like the Hindenburg going up in flames.

[bgregg]

The folks that loaned him the money to buy it are not sleeping well these days.

[redmed]

Twitter is just like a newspaper that just gives you the headlines. How it's got as big as it has I'll never know. Tried to get into it but just got so boring.

[DrOtis]

Did he buy it just to implode it?! Striking down a major communication tool feels like someones planning an invasion!