Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
Well not 100% by Musk
A good chunk of that private ownership is a just lovely royal family whose most prominent member just happens to have a penchant for having his lackeys… handle his problems for him…
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The company's finances are wholly separate from his: the severance comes out the company's coffers, not his pocket. If the company can't pay, he's not going to gift the company money to do so, he'll just ignore it. And if the company gets sued for not paying up, is summarily then forced to pay, and they can't afford to, I think he'll just have the company declare bankruptcy before he spends a cent of his own money.
He has already spent his own money to prop up twitter.
But yeah maybe he'll just sink the website. That would still be a massive loss for him and also be very funny.
We don't know for a fact that he spent that money on Twitter or really what he did with the money from that sale. If it went to Twitter it must have been 100% for interest payments, because he's still not paying bills and is still laying folks off.
I should just stop using Twitter. My parents are already making being trans a crushing boulder on my life and here I am night after night allowing myself to get sucked into reading a bunch of astroturfed anti-trans bullshit trying to fake a hate movement. Why? I'm uninstalling the stupid thing tomorrow.
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jmcdonaldI voted, did you?DC(ish)Registered Userregular
I should just stop using Twitter. My parents are already making being trans a crushing boulder on my life and here I am night after night allowing myself to get sucked into reading a bunch of astroturfed anti-trans bullshit trying to fake a hate movement. Why? I'm uninstalling the stupid thing tomorrow.
uninstall it now. why wait?
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I should just stop using Twitter. My parents are already making being trans a crushing boulder on my life and here I am night after night allowing myself to get sucked into reading a bunch of astroturfed anti-trans bullshit trying to fake a hate movement. Why? I'm uninstalling the stupid thing tomorrow.
And hey, I know saying "yo fuck your parents" doesn't really help, but we love you. You're rad.
EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate Twitter
Elon Musk and the EU are in a dispute over the Twitter owner’s plan to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to help moderate the social media platform, as the company responds to strict new rules designed to police online content.
According to four people familiar with talks between Musk, Twitter executives, and regulators in Brussels, the billionaire has been told to hire more human moderators and fact-checkers to review posts.
The demand complicates Musk’s efforts to reorganize the lossmaking business he acquired for $44 billion in October. The new owner has slashed more than half of Twitter’s 7,500 staff, including the entire trust and safety teams in some offices, while seeking cheaper methods to monitor tweets.
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The whole thing about corporations is they shield the individual?
Ok, but what is supposed to be the process of events in this specific case? Twitter is already in massive debt and its not making anywhere close to the amount needed to become profitable. Musk's choices are to prop up the company with his own money or let it die. both of those things are a massive loss for Musk.
The bigger thing is that Musk needs Twitter. Twitter has been a major part of how he interacts with and shapes public discourse, and without it he would have a harder time dealing with all of the crises he gets himself into.
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The whole thing about corporations is they shield the individual?
Ok, but what is supposed to be the process of events in this specific case? Twitter is already in massive debt and its not making anywhere close to the amount needed to become profitable. Musk's choices are to prop up the company with his own money or let it die. both of those things are a massive loss for Musk.
The bigger thing is that Musk needs Twitter. Twitter has been a major part of how he interacts with and shapes public discourse, and without it he would have a harder time dealing with all of the crises he gets himself into.
Here’s to Twitter! The cause of, and solution to, all of Musk’s problems!
how would you verify if someone actually worked at circuit city like 15 years ago
It's on a third party that keeps records, same way we can verify Kmart and Sears.
You can lie to jobs that don't care, but if you're trying to get a job at a better place they'll have somebody check and then if they can't verify it they'll ask for tax documents.
One time a friend of mine put me down as a reference for a job he never had, so that he could apply for a job he was clearly qualified for but didn't have the requisite experience.
When I got a phone call to discuss my "former employee," I bullshitted my way through possibly the greatest performance of my life.
My friend got the job a week later.
Moral of the story: There's more than one way to grift into a job.
One time a friend of mine put me down as a reference for a job he never had, so that he could apply for a job he was clearly qualified for but didn't have the requisite experience.
When I got a phone call to discuss my "former employee," I bullshitted my way through possibly the greatest performance of my life.
My friend got the job a week later.
Moral of the story: There's more than one way to grift into a job.
The joy of being a small business owner is this is a repeatable support option
Helped a couple folks out this way before
My Dad has also been a reference for me for some of my early jobs too, under a pseudonym, because of course he wants to support me in the griftiest way possible
how would you verify if someone actually worked at circuit city like 15 years ago
It's on a third party that keeps records, same way we can verify Kmart and Sears.
You can lie to jobs that don't care, but if you're trying to get a job at a better place they'll have somebody check and then if they can't verify it they'll ask for tax documents.
but who's the third party verifier? the IRS I guess?
how would you verify if someone actually worked at circuit city like 15 years ago
It's on a third party that keeps records, same way we can verify Kmart and Sears.
You can lie to jobs that don't care, but if you're trying to get a job at a better place they'll have somebody check and then if they can't verify it they'll ask for tax documents.
but who's the third party verifier? the IRS I guess?
Equifax is the big one with The Work Number, but there are like ten other big third party verification sites.
You can still trick people because it costs money to run that and some companies don't want to pay for it. But if you've worked for a large corporation there is a very good chance that info is on a website. You can still fool a company that's lazy about background checks, but that's always true.
Very much a champagne problem, I am aware, but it has historically been weirdly difficult to prove to banks and landlords that I have a job
"So I work for a show that's gonna be on [network], right, but all my checks come from the single-use LLC created for this show by Hollywood accountants, so there's no phone number or anything to call, but here are some paystubs. One is for a single week, one is for three weeks, accountants aren't always great about getting checks out on time. Here's my employment contract, it's about 20 pages long and my wages are two lines on page 12."
Very much a champagne problem, I am aware, but it has historically been weirdly difficult to prove to banks and landlords that I have a job
"So I work for a show that's gonna be on [network], right, but all my checks come from the single-use LLC created for this show by Hollywood accountants, so there's no phone number or anything to call, but here are some paystubs. One is for a single week, one is for three weeks, accountants aren't always great about getting checks out on time. Here's my employment contract, it's about 20 pages long and my wages are two lines on page 12."
We just verified an actor who just does day stuff on shows so no consistent employer, so we just used their SAG card to show they've been a member for twelve years and called it good enough.
Very much a champagne problem, I am aware, but it has historically been weirdly difficult to prove to banks and landlords that I have a job
"So I work for a show that's gonna be on [network], right, but all my checks come from the single-use LLC created for this show by Hollywood accountants, so there's no phone number or anything to call, but here are some paystubs. One is for a single week, one is for three weeks, accountants aren't always great about getting checks out on time. Here's my employment contract, it's about 20 pages long and my wages are two lines on page 12."
I was going to say I would assume it's less of a problem in los angeles, but then I remembered landlords are largely faceless terrifying multinationals that have no idea what they even own.
Very much a champagne problem, I am aware, but it has historically been weirdly difficult to prove to banks and landlords that I have a job
"So I work for a show that's gonna be on [network], right, but all my checks come from the single-use LLC created for this show by Hollywood accountants, so there's no phone number or anything to call, but here are some paystubs. One is for a single week, one is for three weeks, accountants aren't always great about getting checks out on time. Here's my employment contract, it's about 20 pages long and my wages are two lines on page 12."
I was going to say I would assume it's less of a problem in los angeles, but then I remembered landlords are largely faceless terrifying multinationals that have no idea what they even own.
Its amazing how many systems in the US can absolutely lock you out of things that aren't even done personally, but just by vague numbers on a screen.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Equifax and similar companies need to be burned to the ground
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Being self employed is another flavor of hell for trying to prove income and employment. Luckily I also have a day job, so it’s not as bad, but my wife is 100% self employed and it’s always a pain. When we applied for our mortgage, the lender said it would be best to just put her as an employee of her company, since she takes a regular paycheck and not being up the fact that she owns the business to the underwriter. Which felt a little sketchy, but he said it, so we did that. Then when they asked for a number to call to verify employment they got real confused when she was like “yeah, that would just be my cell phone number. Ask for… uh… me.”
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
how would you verify if someone actually worked at circuit city like 15 years ago
It's on a third party that keeps records, same way we can verify Kmart and Sears.
You can lie to jobs that don't care, but if you're trying to get a job at a better place they'll have somebody check and then if they can't verify it they'll ask for tax documents.
but who's the third party verifier? the IRS I guess?
Equifax is the big one with The Work Number, but there are like ten other big third party verification sites.
You can still trick people because it costs money to run that and some companies don't want to pay for it. But if you've worked for a large corporation there is a very good chance that info is on a website. You can still fool a company that's lazy about background checks, but that's always true.
When I was getting hired at Apple a lonnnnnng time ago, about 3/4 of my resume was defunct companies, and small mom and pop operations (some of which also disappeared). When I got hired, they said it was contingent on my background/resume verification.
It took them 2 and a half months to finally get back to me and say they’ve been unable to verify most of my employment, but fuck it, take the job anyway so we can move on.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
Very much a champagne problem, I am aware, but it has historically been weirdly difficult to prove to banks and landlords that I have a job
"So I work for a show that's gonna be on [network], right, but all my checks come from the single-use LLC created for this show by Hollywood accountants, so there's no phone number or anything to call, but here are some paystubs. One is for a single week, one is for three weeks, accountants aren't always great about getting checks out on time. Here's my employment contract, it's about 20 pages long and my wages are two lines on page 12."
I was going to say I would assume it's less of a problem in los angeles, but then I remembered landlords are largely faceless terrifying multinationals that have no idea what they even own.
Its amazing how many systems in the US can absolutely lock you out of things that aren't even done personally, but just by vague numbers on a screen.
how would you verify if someone actually worked at circuit city like 15 years ago
It's on a third party that keeps records, same way we can verify Kmart and Sears.
You can lie to jobs that don't care, but if you're trying to get a job at a better place they'll have somebody check and then if they can't verify it they'll ask for tax documents.
but who's the third party verifier? the IRS I guess?
Equifax is the big one with The Work Number, but there are like ten other big third party verification sites.
You can still trick people because it costs money to run that and some companies don't want to pay for it. But if you've worked for a large corporation there is a very good chance that info is on a website. You can still fool a company that's lazy about background checks, but that's always true.
When I was getting hired at Apple a lonnnnnng time ago, about 3/4 of my resume was defunct companies, and small mom and pop operations (some of which also disappeared). When I got hired, they said it was contingent on my background/resume verification.
It took them 2 and a half months to finally get back to me and say they’ve been unable to verify most of my employment, but fuck it, take the job anyway so we can move on.
Most of my work history has been outside the US and not once has a company here bothered to go to the trouble of contacting or verifying any of my non-US based employers.
Moral: pick a cool EU corp and say you worked overseas for a bit.
President Joe Biden wants to bring back family detention.
Let me remind you what family detention is. These are basically jails where the government locks up immigrant mothers with their children.
Sounds inhumane? They are.👇🏾This was the T. Don Hutto detention center.
T. Don Hutto was eventually closed down, but unfortunately, under the Obama administration, this practice was expanded. Private detention companies like GEO got contracts to jail women and kids (including babies) together.
During my work with @RAICESTEXAS I heard stories of neglect & straight-up abuse towards adults and children. A baby had diarrhea for weeks because of the food and got no medical attention. Parents who died of suicide. Kids ended up with so much trauma.
These places are horrific.
Because of the work of organizations on the ground who sued, protested, and provided direct support to people detained, this practice stopped.
But now, here we are again, faced with the possibility of having this inhumane practice back. Now under President Biden...
... for the same purposes of "deterring people from coming to the U.S.".
When is this going to stop?
Biden and his administration must stop these plans. I don't even care what his lies were during the campaign trail. At least think of people's humanity. Stop dehumanizing us.
Family detention is NEVER. EVER. NEVER the solution.
You can listen to this episode of the Homeland Insecurity podcast if you want to learn more about the history and impact of this inhumane practice. https://t.co/02DSyKuaq3
Will the Biden administration reinstate the detention of migrant families? “No decision has been made,” @SecMayorkas tells me, but he says he wants “all options on the table – great, good, bad, terrible. Let us discuss them… The best ideas blossom from open and candid dialogue.”
Joe Biden is an architect and agent of White Supremacy
They might as well have, for all you care about brown folks, fucko.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Look, you people said you didn't want families separated anymore, so I gave you tiny family prison cells. I even put in an accent wall! You leftists are just never satisfied.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
What's the fucking point of blue no matter who again?
Seems like we're still fucking over a shitload of people, just being quieter about it.
Comfortable middle class cishet white liberals whose lives are generally stable under either either party don’t want to feel embarrassed and/or mildly guilty about their privilege and Democratic administrations give them enough “job done” vibes to sit back, relax and enjoy their lives without thinking about the ways society is still fucked for Not-Them
“Guys what if we made immigration a deeply carceral system that terrorized and tortured people just trying to move here because we’re a nation that desperately still wants to be white only?”
“all options on the table – great, good, bad, terrible. Let us discuss them… The best ideas blossom from open and candid dialogue.”
It’s like making a dinner for others to eat by having some of your finest White House chefs make dozens of different potential dishes that could be served… and then having a few more just hop up on the table and take a giant steaming shit on a serving tray.
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Well not 100% by Musk
A good chunk of that private ownership is a just lovely royal family whose most prominent member just happens to have a penchant for having his lackeys… handle his problems for him…
…with bone saws.
We don't know for a fact that he spent that money on Twitter or really what he did with the money from that sale. If it went to Twitter it must have been 100% for interest payments, because he's still not paying bills and is still laying folks off.
This absolutely sent me cackling in my car in the parking lot before going into work.
This was more satisfying and rejuvenating to me than a cup of coffee.
Satans..... hints.....
uninstall it now. why wait?
And hey, I know saying "yo fuck your parents" doesn't really help, but we love you. You're rad.
Maybe the steering wheel falling off is a feature
This feels metaphorical.
oops
Useful advice for anyone job hunting out there
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
The bigger thing is that Musk needs Twitter. Twitter has been a major part of how he interacts with and shapes public discourse, and without it he would have a harder time dealing with all of the crises he gets himself into.
Here’s to Twitter! The cause of, and solution to, all of Musk’s problems!
No it's not. Twitter is verified through a 3rd party that we can verify.
Also it's easy to verify if somebody actually worked at Circuit City as well.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
It's on a third party that keeps records, same way we can verify Kmart and Sears.
You can lie to jobs that don't care, but if you're trying to get a job at a better place they'll have somebody check and then if they can't verify it they'll ask for tax documents.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
When I got a phone call to discuss my "former employee," I bullshitted my way through possibly the greatest performance of my life.
My friend got the job a week later.
Moral of the story: There's more than one way to grift into a job.
The joy of being a small business owner is this is a repeatable support option
Helped a couple folks out this way before
My Dad has also been a reference for me for some of my early jobs too, under a pseudonym, because of course he wants to support me in the griftiest way possible
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but who's the third party verifier? the IRS I guess?
Equifax is the big one with The Work Number, but there are like ten other big third party verification sites.
You can still trick people because it costs money to run that and some companies don't want to pay for it. But if you've worked for a large corporation there is a very good chance that info is on a website. You can still fool a company that's lazy about background checks, but that's always true.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
"So I work for a show that's gonna be on [network], right, but all my checks come from the single-use LLC created for this show by Hollywood accountants, so there's no phone number or anything to call, but here are some paystubs. One is for a single week, one is for three weeks, accountants aren't always great about getting checks out on time. Here's my employment contract, it's about 20 pages long and my wages are two lines on page 12."
We just verified an actor who just does day stuff on shows so no consistent employer, so we just used their SAG card to show they've been a member for twelve years and called it good enough.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
I was going to say I would assume it's less of a problem in los angeles, but then I remembered landlords are largely faceless terrifying multinationals that have no idea what they even own.
Its amazing how many systems in the US can absolutely lock you out of things that aren't even done personally, but just by vague numbers on a screen.
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When I was getting hired at Apple a lonnnnnng time ago, about 3/4 of my resume was defunct companies, and small mom and pop operations (some of which also disappeared). When I got hired, they said it was contingent on my background/resume verification.
It took them 2 and a half months to finally get back to me and say they’ve been unable to verify most of my employment, but fuck it, take the job anyway so we can move on.
And businesses are lobbying to weaken laws intended to regulate biases present in hiring algorithms.
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Most of my work history has been outside the US and not once has a company here bothered to go to the trouble of contacting or verifying any of my non-US based employers.
Moral: pick a cool EU corp and say you worked overseas for a bit.
Joe Biden is an architect and agent of White Supremacy
Biden: “You should vote for Trump, you should vote for Trump.”
They might as well have, for all you care about brown folks, fucko.
Seems like we're still fucking over a shitload of people, just being quieter about it.
Fuck this stupid fucking country, burn it to the ground
Comfortable middle class cishet white liberals whose lives are generally stable under either either party don’t want to feel embarrassed and/or mildly guilty about their privilege and Democratic administrations give them enough “job done” vibes to sit back, relax and enjoy their lives without thinking about the ways society is still fucked for Not-Them
It’s like making a dinner for others to eat by having some of your finest White House chefs make dozens of different potential dishes that could be served… and then having a few more just hop up on the table and take a giant steaming shit on a serving tray.
All options on the table, you see