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You may be partially correct on this. Latest law is at $104K, they would be exempt. Good luck getting exempt employees to work 84 hours, though.

As of January 1, 2022, California employers must compensate their computer professional employees with an annual salary of $104,149.81 or more ($8,679.16 a month or $50.00 an hour) to be exempt from paying them overtime.

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One of my digital marketing people just sent me this.

Andā€¦

This guy is the head of the largest marketing trade organization in the world, and elon just blocked him for saying the advertisers are concerned about what heā€™s going to do with content moderation

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Spookyā€¦I just went on twitter refreshed my feed and those tweets popped up!

Meanwhile, how could I have forgotten this quote!

How anyone can continue to use this cesspit of an app is beyond me really. It was terrible already, and will only get worse with that mean idiot in charge now.

Stop using it, people, itā€™s really not worth your time. Everyone should free her/himself from this stuff.

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Itā€™s pretty horrible but it does have its uses. My ISP, for example, does not use a fixed line so to report a fault is an extended process via Whatsapp that can take literally hours. Via Twitter I simply bitch on their Customer Service account andā€¦ voila. Also, I use it specifically to follow the war. Our information since Feb would have been almost impossible without it. I use it for very little beyond that besides following the upcoming election in the US with some things just popping into my feed every now and then. Like this below, for example:

https://twitter.com/ShannonRSingh/status/1588591603622772736?s=20&t=qtMf8tgX_KuCF7sj7Ce0mQ

Iā€™m still trying to get my head around why heā€™s cutting so many jobs from something that was working.

That said. If the whole thing just stopped working I would pause a little. Very little, mind you, perhaps just for a tenth of a heartbeat. Then Iā€™d move on quite happily. :grinning:

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With some effort to curate your list of people to follow and self-control to ignore trending topics and not engage in the comments from randos etc it be a very valuable source of news and commentary. It took me a long time to find value in it because of just how awful the conversation is around the issues that are trending, which is what they put front and center. But now I have that losing it would be a shame, but not critical on a day to day basis. The loss of it as a reliable tool for things like polling station fuckery right before an election right on the edge, that would be critical.

Itā€™s very difficult to see past the amount of distrust and disruption he is causing coupled with the loss of vital behind the scenes groups at the company being timed this close to an election full of fuckery as being the point.

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His new recruitment drive might focus on GOP supporters onlyā€¦!

:rofl: :heart_eyes:

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Itā€™s here! Donā€™t fall all over yourselves lining up. :joy:

My engineers are claiming they have been told that Musk judged the productivity of the engineers he inherited by how many lines code they had written. This is in a field where more lines = bad code. I am skeptical of the truth of this, although it is coming to them first hand from twitter people. It at least says that this is the story going around among twitter engineers.

Come back and finish the projects you were working on, but do it with longer messier code so I can tell more easily you are hard worker.

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Last night we watched the George Clooney film, Up In the Air, in which he plays a guy whose job it is to lay people off. I was really struck by the emotions of the actors playing people losing the jobs. Itā€™s been more than a decade since anyone in America really needed to fear losing their job in a mass layoff. Iā€™m really beginning to get a sinking feeling. Not just Meta and Twitter. Many tech companies have announced layoffs in the last few weeks.

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:rofl:

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