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2022-11-18, 16:20

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On the one hand, there's no better way to rid the company of people you don't want than to make them quit on their own.
'In-person' and 'long hours' are like kryptonite to the latest generation.
Nonsense. We agreed to sell our labor for a given rate and he wanted to unilaterally change the terms to 60-80 hours/week while also cutting pay. Nobody with an ounce of self respect would take that deal.
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2022-11-18, 16:43

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On the one hand, there's no better way to rid the company of people you don't want than to make them quit on their own.
'In-person' and 'long hours' are like kryptonite to the latest generation.
…which is the only generation his deal would be appealing to. More seasoned software engineers have family and other obligations.

And younger folks have a ton of different opportunities than Twitter…
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2022-11-18, 16:46

Um...that's why I implied on the previous page that the offer was merely a cover for reducing unwanted personnel.
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2022-11-18, 17:10

I have noted the only people I personally know in meatspace who believe that Elon knows exactly what he's doing (and is going to succeed) are either over the age of 60, technically unsophisticated, or politically far right wing. Many hit all three points.


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2022-11-18, 17:35

Fuck Elon. I hope he goes broke.
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I have noted the only people I personally know in meatspace who believe that Elon knows exactly what he's doing (and is going to succeed) are either over the age of 60, technically unsophisticated, or politically far right wing. Many hit all three points.
Typical.
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2022-11-18, 18:14

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Um...that's why I implied on the previous page that the offer was merely a cover for reducing unwanted personnel.
To what end? He has way less personnel than he needs to run the place.
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2022-11-18, 18:27

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To what end? He has way less personnel than he needs to run the place.
The way Musk probably saw it, the best of what's left would take up the challenge, and whatever slackers remained would leave.

Not the way it worked out in reality.
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2022-11-18, 20:33

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CRTC would never let an American buy one of the big three anyway. If anyone thinks the big three are bad now, just throw an idiot like Musk in there, the entire network will be down for months at a time, while he tries desperately to rehire all the contractors and engineers he laid off.
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2022-11-19, 04:58

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To what end? He has way less personnel than he needs to run the place.
I believe Frank missed the throwback reference, but I did not


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2022-11-19, 23:32

And there we go. Melon just allowed Trump back onto Twitter. He really is bent on breaking the planet. Or whatever.



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2022-11-20, 00:37

He reinstated Trump on Biden's birthday.
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2022-11-20, 03:49

Just another attention whore. Needs to generate attention. Doesn’t care who it harms.
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2022-11-21, 13:13

Gotta admit, he knows what his target audience likes.




I'm sure having the CEO post amazing content such as this is making the advertisers thrilled.

So it goes.
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2022-11-21, 13:46

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I'm sure having the CEO post amazing content such as this is making the advertisers thrilled.
I'm sure this will appeal to conservative, Christian Tradition Family Values™ advertisers.

Oh wait.
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2022-11-21, 16:29



I thought that was parody! He really did that! Wow.
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2022-11-21, 22:50

Lord Musk, has shown us the light, what more could we ask for?
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2022-11-22, 12:34

I think Elon Musk is playing to Trump's "god" status amongst the hypocritical "Christian" far-right.

Nothing "god-like" about Trump, and nothing "Christian" about the far right.

I think he's bating, and having fun doing it.

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2022-11-22, 18:10

I'm ready for the news cycle to shift out from under him. Take all the fun out it.


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2022-11-28, 16:04

Elon is taking on Apple while also missing payroll.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...ff-this-month/
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2022-12-16, 13:38

Is Elon OK? Feels like he's in a bit of a meltdown.

He's out there acting like Anthony Fremont sending folks to the cornfield.


So it goes.

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2022-12-16, 14:37

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Is Elon OK? Feels like he's in a bit of a meltdown.


I think it's just that the folks saying that this is just Elon showing his true colors (or rather that people are finally noticing) are right. You don't get to be the wealthiest person in the world by being a nice dude.

What are some other weird things happening recently in the Elonverse? Just off the top of my head…

- Employees setting up cheap housing illegally inside Twitter HQ.
- Twitter missing rental payments for their San Francisco office.
- Selling furniture and office equipment from the Twitter office.
- Elon calling on people to attack Dr. Fauci.
- Elon avoid paying Twitter severance packages.
- Elon selling another $3.6 billion dollars of his Tesla stock.
- Banning and filing a lawsuit against the guy with the airplane tracker account (which used 100% public data, btw).
- Banning journalists from Twitter who are are critical of him.

But muh anarcho capitalist freeze peach!

Fuck everything about this guy and everything he touches. I continue to eagerly look forward to Twitter burning to the ground and hopefully taking Tesla's overinflated vaulation with it.

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2022-12-16, 20:58

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Is Elon OK? Feels like he's in a bit of a meltdown.
Tends to happen when a stalker goes after your child. He's rich, but he's still human.
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Tends to happen when a stalker goes after your child. He's rich, but he's still human.
I would agree if that's a thing that had happened.

Meanwhile he's filed no police report and the car that was supposedly stalking him was nowhere near an airport. He made up the story.
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Fuck everything about this guy and everything he touches. I continue to eagerly look forward to Twitter burning to the ground and hopefully taking Tesla's overinflated valuation with it.

Certainly fewer four-letter words than I'd use, but this pretty much sums up my opinion of this 240 lb bag of cold mashed potatoes. Fuck him.

I daydream about Ray Velcoro knocking on his door.
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2022-12-19, 11:22

Apparently Musk put a poll up on Twitter yesterday asking users if he should step down as CEO. He said he would go by the results. Of 17.5 million voters, 57.5% voted for him to step down.
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2022-12-19, 11:40

He knew that was going to be the result, it was his out. Not that he won't still own it, but then again maybe he will liquidate it just to get back anything he can for it.

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2022-12-19, 11:49

Or the simplest explanation, he's already decided who is going to be the new CEO.
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Or the simplest explanation, he's already decided who is going to be the new CEO.
He says he has no plans for a successor, something along the lines of, who would want to work for this sinking ship.
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2022-12-19, 13:01

Should anyone really believe anything Musk says nowadays, though?
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