# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 59
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1161 "2022-11-17T20:40:34Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > H1B As an aside, in schools, HIB stands for Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying, which seems applicable here as well. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1162 "2022-11-17T20:48:43Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Yes, that’s why we joked about their “slave” status. They are completely dependent of their employer, and they have all kinds of issues if they lose their jobs. Yeah, I used to work at an office like that. (Not) Funny how many of them left for other jobs as soon as they had permanent residency. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1163 "2022-11-17T21:16:56Z")
I want to point out that i worked for a rather decent employer. And most of our H1B employees either stayed with the company after getting their green card, or returned after a brief stint checking out other options. And EVEN SO the other employees noticed that the H1B employees worked harder and complained less and we attributed that to their vulnerable legal status. Any H1B employees at Twitter are going to be abused. And it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1164 "2022-11-17T22:34:36Z")
Well, maybe Elon can pick up some of the tech workers fleeing Russia on the cheap. Of course, he’ll have to face hostility from his buddy, Putin: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vXTlqhpcqZs/maxresdefault.jpg "Russian Tech Workers’ Latest Exodus Weighs on Putin’s Economy | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTlqhpcqZs) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1165 "2022-11-18T00:03:08Z")
Totes normal: > > ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1166 "2022-11-18T00:07:43Z")
…LOL. [https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593391167718113280](https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593391167718113280) ROFL > The entire Android team resigned. An estimated 75% of staff resigned. Everybody now locked out. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1167 "2022-11-18T00:11:00Z")
Well, Elon, now’s your chance to prove your leet skillz at coding. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1168 "2022-11-18T00:15:53Z")
925 people left working there. And they are locked out of the buildings because the boss doesn’t trust them. This is just f\*cking amazing. The absolute galaxy-brainness of it. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52506340427_46fa1bc429_z.jpg "TwitMcMahon") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52506340427/) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1169 "2022-11-18T00:41:32Z")
And those people would have probably left on their own, now he’s burning cash to pay their 3 months with absolutely nothing to show for it. I always knew he wasn’t the “visionary” some media like to portrait him as, but that he is this dumb in short term games is a surprise to me. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1170 "2022-11-18T00:45:47Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > And those people would have probably left on their own, now he’s burning cash to pay their 3 months with absolutely nothing to show for it. I wonder if he can even afford the total burden of that buyout, or maybe it’ll just get folded into the myriad creditors he’ll owe when he takes it Chapter 11. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1171 "2022-11-18T00:48:26Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > I always knew he wasn’t the “visionary” some media like to portrait him as, but that he is this dumb in short term games is a surprise to me. Don’t worry, I’m sure his defenders will be along shortly to explain to us how his paranoia and towering stupidity are actually part of his brilliant secret plan to turn twitter into a cancer-curing teleportation service or something. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1172 "2022-11-18T00:51:10Z")
Musk, November 10: “All employees must show up at the office or be fired.” Musk, November 17: “All offices are closed until further notice.” I’m beginning to see the plan here. Apparently Elno is going to run the place by himself. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1173 "2022-11-18T00:52:07Z")
> [@](#): > > We’re hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. With all the damage Elon is doing to Twitter anyway, how would they tell? > [@wolfpup](#): > > Musk, November 10: “All employees must show up at the office or be fired.” > Musk, November 17: “All offices are closed until further notice.” Apparently he’s desperate enough to at least partly walk back the no-remote-work order: > **[Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/twitter-musk-easing-rto-order/)** > > The number of likely departures prompted Musk to ease his return-to-office edict and managers to meet to decide which engineers to ask back. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1174 "2022-11-18T00:55:17Z")
> We’re hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. What, Elon doesn’t want competition? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1175 "2022-11-18T01:07:35Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Apparently Elno is going to run the place by himself. Exclusive footage from inside Twitter HQ; [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TEIqTBasNrQ/hqdefault.jpg "The Simpsons - Mr. Burns and Smithers run the plant themselves.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIqTBasNrQ) Meanwhile; > > > I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. Covfefe on fire off the soulder of Orion. 30 to 50 feral hogs running amok off the Tannhäuser Gate. All of these moments will be lost in time, like tweets in rain. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1176 "2022-11-18T01:16:03Z")
The rise and fall of the Krassenstein brothers, Elizabeth Brunig, and the miracle of Covfefe… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1177 "2022-11-18T01:29:40Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Apparently Elno is going to run the place by himself. I’m sure it was a typo, but when I read that, I immediately pictured Elon Musk as a Muppet. Thanks for the laugh! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1178 "2022-11-18T01:37:36Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > Apparently Elno is going to run the place by himself. ⁢ > > I’m sure it was a typo, but when I read that, I immediately pictured Elon Musk as a Muppet. > > Thanks for the laugh! ⁢ I just assumed they were doing it on purpose, as Elmo is a name his critics call him a lot. Every single time I’ve seen Elmo trending, it’s been about Musk, and with one lone post about the puppet or doll thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1179 "2022-11-18T01:40:56Z")
How many Scaramuccis has it been since Musk bought the company? ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1180 "2022-11-18T01:49:34Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I’m sure it was a typo, but when I read that, I immediately pictured Elon Musk as a Muppet. Pilot from Farscape is what leapt to my mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=60)