There’s just something fucking hilarious about laying off employees, mocking them, and being sued for improperly firing them – and then whining that your competitor hired them and that they have access to Twitter information still.

I believe this fits well under the “fuck around and find out” doctrine.

  • Heldenhirn@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    1 year ago

    To be honest I kinda want threads to crush Twitter because I despise Musk so much, a lot more than Zuckerberg. Yes, Meta is a horrible company who steals all your data but if I just look at the person behind it I would know who I would kill if I only can choose one. Threads isn’t a Lemmy competitor anyway, they work so different. I think Mastodon might get an issue because sites like Mastodon/Threads/Twitter are all about getting famous people on your site and let’s be real: Most famous people are not hardcore nerds, some of them might not even heard of Linux. If they can choose between Twitter itself, Twitter by Facebook , or Twitter for nerds (c’mon you know that’s true at the moment) I don’t know what they will choose but I DO know what they will NOT choose. I hope Twitter fails because it turns into a shit hole and threads fails because it never reaches critical mass.

      • S_204@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        Best case scenario is threads splits off enough to take critical mass away from twitter, but not enough to get it for itself…so they both just die off.

    • digdilem@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      17
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Musk is not a likeable person, and I’m definitely not a fan - but he has changed the world. Not many people can say that and Reddit’s distaste for him has spilled over here recently.

      Paypal - first and still biggest widely trusted online payment handler.

      Tesla - Started a ground-breaking electric car market that’s changed the entire face of motorised transport, and is still the leader in the sector. Their motors and battery packs are still way ahead of anyone else.

      Starnet - Bringing low latency, high speed internet to remote locations around the globe. Even in the developed western world where other technologies have deemed it unaffordable.

      SpaceX - Seriously, who can fail to be impressed by seeing a rocket LANDING intact?

      All areas where other companies dicked around and really achieved very little through lack of vision, drive or funding.

      Yes, he’s had failures (Boring Company, Twitter) and yes he’s a category ten arsehole (accusing people of being paedophiles without grounds, manipulating stock prices illegally, pot smoking on live tv, having complete disregard for human beings’ feelings and lives, etc etc) . Does that give him a free pass to act like a knob? Of course not, but the man has actually achieved genuinely amazing things.

      • breakingcups@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        23
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        He didn’t start either PayPal or Tesla, he got fired as PayPal CEO because it wasn’t doing so hot and he paid his way into Tesla to be able to call himself founder. He’s not the genius. He’s the guy who started with money to throw around, did so to make even more money and put his face on the poster and started to drink his own coolaid.

        • Steeve@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          Even better, he built a shitty banking website (X.com) that merged with the company that owned PayPal, they kicked him out of the CEO position the same year, and later they claimed to have rewritten everything Musk wrote. They rebranded as PayPal, one of their products, the following year and Musk had nothing to do with it other than sitting on the board because he got super lucky in the dot com bubble.

      • Heldenhirn@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        But isn’t it debatable which impact Elon had on his companies? Elon is someone who is reaching for the stars (literally) and that’s the one thing he is good at. Believing he can achieve things so incredible unrealistic no one else would try to achieve them. And yes someone with a vision is important but Musk didn’t invent any of the tech his companies are producing. His employees do the heavy lifting and he doesn’t treat them exactly great for it.

        But the thing is all the things I just mentioned don’t even really matter because It’s completely irrelevant wether a person does good things while being an asshole to everyone around him. If someone is an asshole I will call him an asshole. But I admit that some parts of my comment were hyperbolic

  • fidodo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    Non compete clauses are illegal in California.

    It’s dumb that they’re not illegal everywhere but Twitter and Facebook are both located there.

    • CoderKat@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      They’re rarely enforceable elsewhere, anyway. They usually depend on intimidating people, since they’re not likely to win in court for the vast majority of cases (which is why they should be straight up illegal).

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s fairly ridiculous. So long as they don’t take company property with them from the previous employer, there really shouldn’t be an issue. Patents should be more than sufficient to protect IP. If you’re concerned about someone building on that patent independently, you should probably do what it takes to keep them.

  • Zima@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    1 year ago

    this is the same guy that says that wfh is unethical. he clearly sees workers as his serfs since he feels entitled to their work even after firing them.

  • S_204@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 year ago

    Yes we fired them! No we didn’t pay their severances!

    But also… MINE.

    Elon is such a pathetic twat.

  • Salvo@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 year ago

    The cream on top of this cherry is that Meta claim that they don’t have any ex-twitter employees.

    “Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, told Semafor that Twitter’s accusations are baseless. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” he said.”

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s kind of weird that Musk assumes there’s anything special about Twitter that you couldn’t build in a few weeks with a competent dev team.

      The only value Twitter has/had is its user base. There’s no patents or intellectual property that can be sold off if they lose that.

      • Salvo@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yes, It is definitely a case of taking US$44 billion and throwing it away. But it is worse than that, because Twitter was a resource for the internet community.

        And his attempts to make money after the fact are as pathetic as a World Leader using his position to spruik tins of beans.

        It is almost like some sort of performance art.

        • jonne@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 year ago

          I never liked that the supposed public square on the internet was in private hands, it should’ve always been a protocol like Usenet or Mastodon where anyone could spin up a server and participate.

  • zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Musk is being an immature crybaby again, but there’s a certain pattern of Facebook/Meta hiring execs who used to work on competing products only to gain an insight perspective on their competitors’ plans by milking them for insider information.

    They did the same when Google+ launched.

  • U de Recife@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Let me try to see if I get the logic here. So a company fires a lot of people, and then another company hires them.

    These workers then are leveraged by the new company to do something similar to what they have been doing in the previous company. This allows the new company to create a competing product that seems to capture part of the previous company’s market.

    But now the first company wants to sue the second company for… leveraging those recently dismissed workers?

    One of those companies seem to be acting in a very strategically sound way, and it’s not the one which fired those workers in the first place…

    • BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ve heard Zuck called a lot of names. A LOT of them, most of them well deserved and fitting…but I’ve not heard very many people call him stupid or bad at his job.

      Elon on the other hand…

      • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        The thing is, Zuck doesn’t have a rabid fan base who licks the shit he drops as he walks. Zuck sucks but he keeps to himself and his business most of the time. Elon on the other hand has a huge rabid fanbase who treat him like he’s the messiah reincarnate. Which makes it all the more satisfying when Elon loses over Zuck. Seeing Zuck doing something and failing just makes me shrug and say “He deserved it.” Elon, on the other hand, I REVEL in seeing his stupidity bite him in the ass again and again.

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Idk, the whole meta thing he went all in on was bit of a bad call. But other then that I agree. They definitely won in the VR space and were very smart to go cordless standalone and affordable. Too bad the underlying network is invasive as hell.

        • BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Was it though? The Metaverse may have been an unsuccessful venture but it was a pretty successful rebrand. Facebook was getting dragged through the shitter (100% deserved), and while nobody seems to give a shot about meta, you do hear less and less about Facebook from just about everywhere. Zuck somehow managed to distance himself from his cancer of a product without shutting it down in any way shape or form just by changing the name of his company to a dud product.

          That’s savvy, even if it wasn’t the profit factory outcome he wanted. By comparison, Elon is speedrunning driving the ONLY real competition Facebook has right into a brick wall.

      • pyrosive@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        People have been ripping on Zuck for the past 4+ years about his investment in the metaverse…

  • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing capitalists (not to be confused with the capitalism sycophant, self-hating peasants that don’t hold significant capital and never will but call themselves capitalists) despise more than actual competition.

    The goal of unchecked, unregulated capitalism is to end capitalism, ie competition.

    That’s why entire industries merge into a single entity to create a monopoly, as the regulators the oligarchs captured decades ago that were supposed to prevent such anticompetitive behaviors sit back passively with their rubber stamps.

    • gmmxle@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.

      • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Due explicitly to market behavior unless regulated otherwise, exactly. Most people who build companies do so to make money. When you accumulate enough capital/power, it just becomes good business to use that power to cannibalize your competition if you’re able.

        What is good for modern business, profit exclusively, becomes explicitly detrimental to the society that provided the infrastructure and conditions for that business to succeed in the first place, which is why such behaviors need to be but are not prohibited.

        At this point, our society exists to grow our beloved economy, when the reality is an economy is supposed to just be a lowly tool to better distribute goods and services for the benefit of society and it’s citizens.

        https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

        Most stakeholders of American society, its citizens, are not meaningfully among the shareholders our society labors to benefit. The most maddening part are all the exploited Americans who would literally die defending the current system and their own exploitation and that of their family in the name of tradition/blind faith/sunk cost fallacy/the schadenfreude of “I suffered so you should too”/ etc.

  • MustrumR@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    “How dare they use our abandoned slaves? Slave should stay forever loyal to their master no matter how we mistreat it. They are our property, we have all rights to their use, skills and knowledge.”

    If this goes anywhere, Confederacy actually won the long game.

  • nobodyspecial@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Elon views even previous, no longer employed workers as his slaves for life. The truly disturbing thing is he’s not the only one with that mindset.

    • gornar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      You can take the man out of the emerald mine, but you can’t take the emerald mine out of the man!

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Wait, so Elon doesn’t want the people he fired, but he also doesn’t like it when they move to the competition? Is this guy fucking ret*rded or something?