'Don't Come Back!' [Oops] 'Come Back!'

Love means never having to say you're sorry. But that hardly means Twitter, especially now under Colonel Musk, is saying sorry to the employees it had fired last week and now wants back because the company loves them. At best, Twitter's HR has gone the extra mile to say, 'Oops,' recalling dozens of the 3,500-plus employees it laid off 'by mistake'. For these dozens of Twitter employees-turned-ex-Twitter employees-turned-Twitter employees again, Friday may have been a hashtagged affair, but the weekend must have been brutal.

So, why the recall? It's been conjectured that in last week's bloodbath, wheat was junked with the chaff. Musk's Twitter needs some of the hastefully expelled professionals to carry out the new master's master plan. Those who didn't get the sack during Friday's shock and aww shucks have, reportedly, been working slave hours to finish newly imposed deadlines - and keep their jobs. Twitter's 'Come back, Simon!' twout-out to folks they, on second thoughts, found of value, provides an important lesson to HRs in far less valuable and malleable companies: when you go on a 'restructuring' spree, do consider individual talent and lack thereof rather than just headcounts. Unless, of course, the plan is to burn the ship down along with the stowaways. Which very well could be a mast qalandar strategy for the world's richest man.