Twitter’s employees await their fate under Elon Musk

Whereas staff await extra from Musk, the truth of the acquisition is beginning to set in. On Thursday afternoon, an inside memo seen by The Verge mentioned that Twitter’s code can be frozen till Tuesday, November 1 at 10AM pacific — the identical day that many staff will see their present batch of fairness and money compensation vest. Then Musk had a few of Twitter’s product leaders meet with staff from Tesla, presumably to assist him get a deal with on what precisely he’s shopping for. (Bloomberg first reported the assembly.) Later within the day, staff donned costumes and introduced their children to work for a #trickortweet Halloween celebration at Twitter’s places of work.

Since Musk all of the sudden proclaimed he truly wished to purchase Twitter once more earlier this month, Twitter’s most internally seen chief has been Jay Sullivan, the final supervisor of shopper and income product. He has been holding common listening classes with staff, however on Thursday, shortly after staff obtained a calendar invite for a “fast casual verify in” name with him at 7:35PM ET, the assembly was cancelled “till additional discover” with out clarification.

Many Twitter staff have just lately famous the absence of Parag Argawal, their present CEO, who Musk soured on after the 2 initially began speaking about Musk becoming a member of Twitter’s board. “He has been utterly absent for weeks,” one present Twitter worker, who requested anonymity to talk with out the corporate’s permission, mentioned of Argawal. “He has ghosted us,” mentioned one other. Each Twitter’s Slack and the Twitter employee-only part of Blind, an nameless message board for tech staff, are full of comparable feedback about Argawal, in line with screenshots seen by The Verge.

As is becoming for Musk, his Twitter takeover has been a messy saga fueled by his penchant for drama. In any occasion, we’re hours away from a conclusion to this saga. It’s the start of a brand new period for Twitter.