Twitter is a remote workplace and has been for years. It is a fundamental change in our employment contracts to require a 40 hour week in the office. I personally do not believe that Twitter employees have an obligation to return to the office. Certainly not without notice (that at all).
I also remind all Tweeps (at least in the US) that we have an unlimited PTO policy. All Tweeps are eligible for PTO. Maybe today is a good day to rest and recharge.
Everyone here should also know that our CISO, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer ALL resigned last night. This news will be buried in the drama of returning to the office. I believe it is intentional.
During the last two weeks. Elon has indicated that he only cares about recouping the losses he is suffering as a result of failing to exit his mandatory obligation to buy Twitter. He chose to enter into that agreement! All of us are dealing with this as a result of the choices he made.
Elon has shown that his only priority with Twitter users is how to monetize them. I don’t believe he cares about human rights activists. dissenters, our users in non-monetized regions, and all the other users who have made Twitter the global city square you’ve all spent so long building and we all love.
I’ve heard Alex Spiro (current head of Legal) say that Elon is willing to take a big risk with this company and its users because “Elon launches rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.” I heard another executive in the legal department say that because of the tight SLAs (of two weeks?!) between product launch > release, Legal will “have to shift the burden to the engineers” to self-certify compliance with FTC and other requirements. the laws. This will place a great deal of personal, professional and legal risk on the engineers: I predict that you will all be under pressure from management to push through changes that are likely to lead to major incidents.
All this is extremely dangerous for our users. Also, given that the FTC can (and will!) fine Twitter BILLIONS of dollars pursuant to the FTC’s Consent Order, extremely detrimental to Twitter’s longevity as a platform. Our users deserve much better than this.
If you are uncomfortable with anything you are asked to do, you can call Twitter’s Ethics Helpline at (800) 275-4843 or file a report at ethicshelpline.twitter.com. Please also note that the FTC’s number is: 1-877-FTC-HELP. You may also remember that Mudge went to httos://whistlebloweraid.org
I wish you all luck. It has been an honor to work with you all. And I’m going to take a PTO day today. 🫡💙
