The billionaire owner and CEO Linda Yaccarino dialed in from out of town, vaguely touting new features that will roll out in the coming months.
There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground. A year after Musk officially took over the platform, both he and recently installed X CEO Linda Yaccarino held a joint all-hands Thursday to address some of the changes at the company and suggested that X might be a new financial platform.
Neither Musk himself nor Yaccarino showed up, according to a report from Fortune Thursday. The two executives dialed in remotely from Austin and New York City, respectively, citing an anonymous source within the company. Musk and Yaccarino skipping out on an in-person appearance during the all-hands comes after the former demanded employees return to office 40 hours per week last November, according to Insider, in one of his first sweeping changes as owner.
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We all know this is not how the conversation goes man. 90% of people can’t and/or don’t operate this way. People online often talk big game like this. “Demand a raise or leave.” Well, they didn’t give it, I have kids in school and a wife with a good job and a mortgage. Do I just quit then uproot them and move somewhere else? At this point that’s probably the only way I’ll get a new job with a substantial pay bump that isn’t where I am.
There is also a huge bias towards extroverts in this style advice when the system itself should allow everyone working to have an upward trajectory if they want it/can handle it. Instead many companies gladly sit back and let the less extroverted among them quietly sit at the same pay for 18-24mo at a time. It’s not right but it’s reality, they are basically playing mind games with folks who avoid confrontation.
Luckily, I do play hardball a bit with my company, but that’s because I’m a white male negotiating with white males and it’s a “startup” so negotiations are frequent. But I know that if they start stonewalling me, I’m going to be in a very difficult position, because quitting is not something I can do very easily without causing havoc for my family.