Elon Musk: Why He Now Fires Employees Almost Every Day

Twitter is f*cked.

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
4 min readApr 29, 2022

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Elon Musk on Joe Rogan

There are so many questions now that Elon bought Twitter.

Like is there any way that Elon actually makes money off this or is it just an impulse buy like how my Aunt bought a Peloton for Christmas?

A better question is what’s next for the platform and for the people that work there — as it seems an employee purge is pretty much predestined.

After all this Elon guy once said:

“There are too many MBAs running America”

— Elon Musk

Twitter has over 5,500 employees. Correction. Twitter had over 5,500 employees.

If we look at the way Elon has treated employees in the past, this is what’s in store for the workers at Twitter.

Elon Asks One Question to Spot Liars

Elon Musk has allegedly interviewed every employee working at SpaceX.

(I wonder if that includes the janitor?)

He asks every candidate the same question: What’s the story of your life?

I know. Kind of lame.

It seems like it would be the ending to a 90s melodrama where the main…

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com