# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5544 "2023-07-10T19:33:10Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> It’s also why his layoffs at Twitter kicked off a general round of layoffs in Silicon Valley. Everyone knew they were needed, but were scared to make the massive layoffs required after years of bloat. So Musk just went and did it, and the sky didn’t fall. That gave everyone else the kick they needed to follow suit.

Jesus, this is delusional. [Your own post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-elon-musk-ultimatum-do-extremely-hardcore-work-or-get-out/975040/108) in November last year argued that twitter folk who quit en masse would have a hard time finding a job _after_:

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> Silicon Valley is currently laying off employees like crazy, and it’s going to get worse. Twitter is not an exception in this regard - it could be that anyone who owned Twitter needed to seriously downsize the staff.
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> Those employees who quit are going to be competing with the 11,000 Meta employees being layed off (three times as many as Twitter), Amazon just layed off 10,000 employees, Lyft cut 700. Stripe cut 1,100. Microsoft cut 1,000 jobs. Coinbase cut 1,100. And those are just some of the big ones. There are smaller layoffs going on all over the place. In addition, tech firms are leaving SF and California in general because of the high cost of living, crime, and because the workforce is expensive and demanding.

Those layoffs preceded Twitter layoffs. Why do you make this shit up?

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