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>>ZacnyL+(OP)
Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement.

Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof.

I can of course not say whether the people currently working at Twitter did warn that the recent measures could have such major side effects, but I would not be surprised in the slightest, considering their leadership's mode of operation.

Even as someone who very much detests what Twitter has become over the last few months and in fact did not like Twitter before the acquisition, partly due to short format making nuance impossible, but mostly for the effect Tweets easy embeddability had on reporting (3 Tweets from random people should not serve as the main basis for an article in my opinion), I must say, I feel very sorry for the people forced to work at that company under that management.

>>Topfi+Ew
At least once have I done a CC blast as a form of insurance when being asked to do something absolutely boneheaded.

>>Waterl+7A
You gotta get executives in writing sometimes or they'll throw you under the bus later.

>>7thacc+OE
If executives are throwing you under a bus, make an exit. There’s no coming back from a clown show like that.

>>Waterl+TF
I have a general rule that I make proactive, diligent efforts to inform and correct, and I do it 3 times to 3 different groups in leadership, and if that doesn't work, I'm out.

I'm about 2 for 8 but you gotta try sometimes.

>>jagged+cM
You don't happen to have a blog or something where you outline, even if it's without tons of detail or being too specific, what these incidents looked like, do you? These feel like (hopefully) rare enough events that I'd love to try to learn from other people's experiences before I run into this kind of situation myself.

>>qchris+S31
No, they're not the kind of thing I like to talk about in more than generalities because they paint me in a negative light, even though most of the work I do is more about positive-sum games.

If you ever have a beverage with me or drop me an email I'm happy to discuss without naming names, but public is unwise, sadly.

One of these years I'm going to retire and start a youtube channel. If you like similar stories, ThePrimagen[1] definitely has a similar flavor. He talks about some situations at Netflix that are eerily familiar, even though I've never worked for them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/theprimeagen