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Twitter is being sued for not giving employees advanced written notice of a mass layoff, in violation of worker protection laws including the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act as well as the California WARN Act, both of which require 60 days of advance notice, TechCrunch reported. Bloomberg first reported the news of the lawsuit, filed on November 3,
Elon Musk began laying off Twitter employees on Friday, culling the social media service’s 7,500-person work force a little over a week after completing his blockbuster buyout, The New York Times reported. According to The New York Times, Twitter employees were notified in a companywide email that the layoffs were set to begin, according to a copy of the message
The media cannot get enough of Elon at the helm at Twitter with a bit of trolling and him moving fast to produce revenue. I share my thoughts on the new $8.00 fee for Twitter blue and all the expected changes. This time next week, things should calm down in the tech space, but wow, the Twitter news is everywhere.
A new era has begun at Twitter, with Elon Musk taking control, delisting the company from the stock exchange, and at the very same time, letting the board of directors go. He very quickly started to make changes and brought in an army of engineers and friends that he trusted to figure out what is happening in the company. Employees are running scared, and he has set some immediate agendas and goals. We will see what happens as he fully works to bring the company into profitability.
Watches don't often make it into the pages of Geek News Central as they're decidedly analogue devices in a digital world. However, I've been a longstanding fan of Scurfa Watches, based in England, with their reasonably priced and well-designed dive watches. The new Top Side Crew range bridges the gap between a technical dive watch and an everyday wearer with
Way back in the mid-noughties, my wife and I were preparing to have a family. Our small house suited us perfectly but to cope with little ones we needed a bit more space and so converted our roof space into bedrooms. During the conversion, our downstairs hallway was completely trashed installing the staircase but with a spot of redecoration, all
Remitly a service that can be used to send money overseas, recently canceled my account, saying that I had broken their terms of service. For the past several years, I have used the service during covid to send money to friends overseas that had needed some extra help. It was with friends that I had established in-person friendships with them