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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Yeah. As a manager, I’m often surprised that team members who report to me don’t actually realize this.
Actual conversation I’ve had:
“Thanks for letting me know your time off plans. I have to cover this logistic, but we will work around it.”
“I mean, I can change it if it’s too much trouble.”
“How would your spouse feel about that?”
“Pissed.”
"And if your spouse wanted you to change jobs, how long would that take?
“Oh.”
(Oh meaning - At most, four weeks in an average market for their skillset, more like 3 months in the current unprecedentedly slow market. Either way, it’s hell for me covering their lost expertise and then training their replacement.)
“Yeah. Thanks for letting me know. We will make it work. Tell your spouse I said ‘Hi’ and ‘thanks’ for the early heads up.”