Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Twitter
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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody here, we're all about to get fired from Twitter. |
| 0:10.8 | Last week, a group of Twitter employees gathered at their office. |
| 0:14.8 | I've been here nine years and nine months now. |
| 0:18.1 | Same with you. |
| 0:19.1 | How long are you here? |
| 0:20.1 | Four years. |
| 0:21.1 | Four years? |
| 0:22.1 | Four years? |
| 0:23.1 | Four years? |
| 0:24.1 | Four years? |
| 0:25.1 | At five p.m. they were supposedly going to be out of a job. |
| 0:28.1 | Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two. |
| 0:36.2 | About a day earlier, these employees had gotten an email from their new boss, Elon Musk. |
| 0:43.3 | Musk said that for Twitter to be successful, employees would need to be, quote, |
| 0:48.1 | extremely hardcore and work long hours at high intensity. |
| 0:55.0 | So if you were up for that, click this link. |
| 1:00.4 | Our colleague Alexa Kors saw copies of that email. |
| 1:04.0 | And if you don't, goodbye, you can get a severance package. |
| 1:08.4 | And you have a day, maybe just over 24 hours to decide. |
| 1:15.4 | Look in the mirror and tell me, are you hardcore? |
| 1:18.5 | Basically, I mean, this was an ultimatum, for sure. |
| 1:25.4 | This was just the latest drama at Twitter since Musk bought the company four weeks ago. |
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