In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

There's been quite a bit of comment over Elon Musk laying off what's been estimated as half of Twitter's workforce. A typical version, from a Twitter internal e-mail, goes like this: "By 9 am PST on Friday, November 4, everyone will receive an individual e-mail with the subject line: Your Role at Twitter. (...) If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter e-mail. If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal e-mail." The 7,000 or so employees of the social media platform bought by Elon Musk received this e-mail on Thursday, November 3, just a few hours before the company launched a vast layoff process. The method illustrates the expeditious, even brutal style of the unstoppable entrepreneur and boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who acquired the company a week earlier. Offhand, I've never tried to tally up the number of times I was laid off, or in some cases fired, over my ...