> He didn’t say anything useful and didn’t answer questions about the return to office email aside from saying “if you can be in an office and do not come in, I’ll consider that your resignation.”

What question was unresolved here?

What a shitty situation all around.

I'm curious what kind of loyalty you think employees owe their employers in these kinds of extreme circumstances. We are talking about a radical change in direction and working style. Whatever deal these employees thought they were signing up for when hired was presumably pretty different than what they were presented with once Elon took over. One of his demands was in increase in working hours. This is a life-changing commitment that many people simply cannot make. A job is important, but it's not the only thing people need to spend time on. That's just one of the changes he is demanding.

Elon seems to be used to treating employees as interchangeable parts. If he is going to operate like that, it doesn't occur to me that his employees owe him any kind of loyalty at all.

If you take a salary from a publicaly traded company, you have certain duties.

One of those duties is not posting internal information online.

If you really think your boss is some cartoon villain out to get you, just quit and give your spot to another person who is willing to do the duties.

> If you take a salary from a publicaly traded company, you have certain duties.

But they no longer take salary from a publicly traded company.

Only duties which are specified in writing right? I get your point and don’t have a dog in the fight but nothing written by the original author was very new compared to other media sources

I see it this way: you owe somewhat higher loyalty to your employer than you perceive they give you. The employer also owes somewhat higher loyalty to their employees than they perceive to give him/her.

This is because perception is imperfect, and also a stable system implies there's a constant cooperative process of de-escalation of conflict from all parties involved.

So sure, "don't leak company politics, and air your grievances" is apt for most companies. No matter how dumb you think your boss is, first you owe it to your colleagues who also rely on their job existing, and even to your dumb boss who is paying your salary and benefits. Plus you don't know all the battles your boss is fighting behind the scenes, and not telling you about so you can focus on your work in peace. That's how most companies work.

But I said "somewhat higher than they give you". You see... everything has limits. Your new boss comes, puts the company on a debt spiral due to his leveraged buyout, fires people, rehires them, refires them, destroys most teams, shuts down critical services like 2FA and doesn't know how to turn them on, acts like a monkey clown in public to the shock of the entire world, launches features that destroy the credibility of the platform and the trust of its partners, leaks private information of employees, and provokes political unrest in the whole country, and so on and so on, ... and so on. And you can barely work, and he insist you sleep on the job and stay during weekends, while he's tweeting NSFW memes and stealing lame jokes from his cult followers.

Yeah, f**k that shit, just leak it all online, and leave as soon as you get another job, Twitter's f**king gone in a few months either way, that's how I see it.