Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’

scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fact is they can get other jobs.

  I’m guessing many of his US staff are stuck at Twitter due to the visa rules. They’re basically very well-paid slaves, and he knows it.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No doubt someone is in that situation. But I don’t think most people know how rare H1-Bs are. Only 65k are issued annually in the US, which has a total employed workforce of 157 million people.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah cause the most common job is truck driver.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  H1Bs that is whom

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes a notable exception. Twitter was 8% H1-B employees prior to all the layoffs. We don’t know how many are there still.

    Those folks are really living with a totally different level of concerns. “My boss is a raging asshole” is not a significant concern compared to being forced to leave the country.

    As for the other 92% of the company with no visa concerns, why are any of them still there? I am tempted to assume they’re the coasters who don’t think they can find as good a paycheck anywhere else, or are just happy to ride the ship down.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe they think the disaster will end, maybe they have families to support, maybe they would rather be fired and collect unemployment. Many years ago I worked for a company that got bought by Teledyne and they pretty much did what is happening to Twatter. I stuck it out until the end.

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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s hilarious how Musk gives his staff ultimatums.

  In this case he didn’t though. It’s just an intentionally misleading clickbait headline and if you read the article itself there’s no mention of a ultimatum.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re right but it is something he does. If he’s saying this publicly I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it’s ultimatums privately.

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