JAKARTA - Several Twitter employees got involved in the company-wide planning process for next year on Tuesday, October 4, when their phones started buzzing at the news that Elon Musk had again changed course in his $44 billion bid to buy the company.
This time, the deal happened. However, the plan they are presenting may not actually happen. Especially if Musk really wants to make Twitter an X application that can answer everything.
One employee described a brief pause in the meeting to take notes, followed by a discussion. "I think everyone is used to the drama," said the person, as quoted by Reuters. "We're just on our way."
Months of condemnation of the deal has made employees accustomed to uncertainty. Many even welcomed news of Musk's proposal to return to his original bid with feelings of deja vu.
Since the world's richest man revealed in April that he had acquired a stake in the social media platform, Musk has accepted and turned down seats on Twitter's board, launched a bid to take the company private and tried to back out of the deal altogether.
The social media company only pursued about half of the projects it normally undertakes because of uncertainty about how many employees will run away, and to ensure it can meet commitments.
Many exploded on the platforms they run, tweeting about their confusion and utter futility about planning Twitter's future when Musk was expected to call for seismic changes in the way Twitter works.
"All the tired nerves, all the uncertainty, all the worry, all back and forth, my loved ones struggling and anxious," tweeted JP Doherty, an engineering manager on Twitter. "And we're just back where we started, maybe. Incredible."
Several staffers tweeted a meme showing a paper labeled "2023 Planning," with the cartoon character first exclaiming "woah" and then saying "this is worthless."
Another meme popular with Twitter employees shows characters from cartoon shows
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SpongeBob SquarePants, with one labeled Elon and the other labeled Jack, to Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, who publicly supported Musk's bid.
The two of them stood smiling as the buildings burned around them. "We did it, Elon! We saved Twitter," the caption read.
Several employees at Twitter's internal Slack channel lamented that they had sold some Twitter stock the day before, before Musk's return to a deal that sent the stock soaring more than 22%.
Others expressed skepticism that Musk would live up to his offer, after so much uncertainty.
"Wouldn't be surprised if this was a procrastination ploy to get more time for experimental discovery and he would back off again after a month or so," wrote an employee at Slack.
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