Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired
&gt;My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it. I wasn’t really thinking about whether those changes were good for Twitter; I just really liked being part of that community, working together on a deadline. I even slept on a sofa in the office on Saturday night.<p>It&#x27;s not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a good thing, and we need to be more vocal about this.  It&#x27;s great the author is fine wasting his weekend working on changes to a verification system that was launched for only a few days, but some of us have family and friends we like to spend time with.  Hobbies and other things outside of work that give our lives meaning.  Generations of workers fought hard for things like weekends and we shouldn&#x27;t just glibly throw them away just because we&#x27;re paid well.