So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Ah, I thought there was more to it than Musk liking something he doesn't understand

When I went through the posts of people I followed that were blue ticks in Twitter they tended to be people that posted the inane lists in the hope that people sign up to their paid newsletters or bought their products. So, so far for me it's been a handy way to identify people to unfollow.

I can't see the point in Facebook (I'm in the ageing demographic). I only friend people I actually know and want to get updates from and mainly use FB for some groups. I don't care if the posters to those are verified or not.

So apparently on Tuesday someone switched off their internal slack and their entire Jira instance went down meaning virtually no work was done company wide.

It's actually a sad indictment of how far someone is willing to debase themselves to earn the approval of a billionaire who is proven to not give a **** about his staff.

She was 39 and in a managerial position. At one point just after Musk took control, she was getting in trouble with her superiors because she kept going to Musk behind their backs to get his approval and pitch crazy ideas. She was just a brown noser. And She'll find it hard to get another job now that she's shown everyone what kind of employee she is.

Yes I agrees Elon has wrecked the culture and work ethos of the company. But if both slack and Jira are down please explain how you might move 1000 people into working cohesively using white boards and sticky notes within a single day? Jira may be a tool but it contains a huge amount of knowledge that might be key to workflows, projects and issue tracking, its not as simple to just switch back to white boards without significant outage planning in place which obviously there was not. Might be he fired the people who used to be responsible for that?

Jira is far more than an issue tracking tool. If employees arent motivated to work I wonder who might be responsible?

If JIRA was down for a day it would make little or no difference for the company I work. We generally know what we should be working on. We don't pick up tasks from day to day. I dont believe that the lack of JIRA meant that no work could be done.

Id agree some work could probably be done but I also think some companies are far more reliant on tools and systems like Jira than others and twitter might be one of them. Ex: we've heard multiple stories about how much of the institutional knowledge keepers were either sacked or walked and now many of those left still might heavily rely on the documentation within Jira etc to do their jobs, moreso than those let go might ever have done. However I think its also a case that the morale is likely at rock bottom so people grabbed any excuse and tbh its a pretty easy one to use.

Wasn't me. I never claimed that because I really don't :)

What I care about is the return of professionalism and proper work ethic in the tech industry. Stop the we are a family BS, stop caring about useless perks like spa and vegan buffets, and start doing what made this industry great once - work hard and innovate. Be a feking engineer again, not a Jira driven code monkey.

If that's what he does internally then sure, but he isn't. What we see on his public Twitter is not what his employees see. He didn't build Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink from edgy memes.

I wasn't aware that all these 3 were already established successful enterprises before he bought them. I mean, Tesla had no product and no plan before him, but that doesn't mean it wasn't doing great already.