With the ongoing firing fiasco at Twitter, its co-founder Jack Dorsey came to take responsibility say it’s his fault.
In a recent Twitter post, Dorsey apologized to company employees a day after the company laid off nearly 50 percent of its workforce.
The people at Twitter, past and present, are strong and resilient. You will always find a way, no matter how difficult the moment. I know that many are angry with me. I am responsible for why everyone is in this situation: I increased the size of the company too quickly. I apologize for that.
— jack (@jack) November 5, 2022
I am grateful and love everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don’t expect that to be mutual at this moment…or ever…and I get it. 💙
— jack (@jack) November 5, 2022
On Friday, Twitter laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company. The layoffs would affect about 3,700 people. Twitter employees from departments such as marketing and communications, AI, search, public policy, wellness, and other teams tweeted about their layoffs.
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk took to the microblogging platform on Saturday to justify his move, saying there was no choice as the company was losing millions of dollars a day. He also said that adequate severance pay was offered to anyone who dropped out.
Musk has bought Twitter for $44 billion and is under pressure to cut costs.
Dozens of Twitter workers have tweeted how they’ve dealt with the anger of the layoff.
A former Senior Community Manager at Twitter tweeted about being remotely logged out of the official system and going limp.
Looks like I’m unemployed. I’ve just been signed out of my work laptop and removed from Slack. #A team forever. loved you all so much.
So sad it had to end like this 💔
— Simon Balmain (@SBkcrn) November 4, 2022
Another former Twitter employee said she had…
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