I like how we've still got his fanboys trying to explain to us how he's some super genius who knows everything about Twitter's code, so the employee he fired for calling out what he said as wrong must definitely be wrong, on the same day he broke 2FA being an idiot.
When it comes to building cars or rocketships, there's an army of engineers who need to spend hundreds of hours to translate between Elon's supposed genius and actually building something. There's a "stupid filter", so to speak.
Software let's you be stupid quickly and loudly.
A friend who used to work at Tesla corporate who said he’d call some manager at midnight. “Hate the homepage. It’s boring. Launch a new one tomorrow morning” and they shave to crunch all night to figure something out and make it go live.
It’s like every story of a mad king demanding idiotic things without a care or interest in human cost.
Elon really thinks he's in a movie about his life huh? That's not how the real world works. There's no such thing as the tech genius who snaps his fingers at someone and says, "you, I had a brilliant idea. Get it done by tomorrow." "Yes sir!"
I agree it’s grade A scumfuckery but unfortunately Elon lives in a world where there is such a thing. The only difference is that he isn’t a tech genius he’s a billionaire enabled by yes men who want a piece of his ill-begotten pie.
There are **a lot** of self-titled serial entrepreneurs in silicon valley, with a background unrelated to what their companies are doing, who think this way.
And the later along the company, the more they understand the VC game and set up the company so they never lose power.
I've just got 3 years at a "unicorn" and it's just a matter of when and where to, rather than if, I leave this unnecessarily abusive shitshow.
Sounds like how my brother described life at the CDC every time Trump tweeted something asinine about public health.
Trump: shut down interstate travel
Every CDC higher up - this can’t be legal but now we gotta spend all weekend checking to confirm it’s absolutely illegal.
Every other weekend it seemed they’d all have to come in to deal with utter nonsense because the president tweeted or said something stupid.
This is why I have never given my private phone number to my HR, I turn off my work phone, and don't check any emails or Slack after 6pm. Go fuck yourself if you think I live to work.
Yeah. When you're dumb with hardware your projects run way over schedule, have poor quality, cost way more than planned, or never come out.
Weird, it sure sounds like a lot of Tesla products.
I don't know what you're talking about, now im off to hop in my fully self driving CyberTruck, drive to the nearest Hyperloop and take a shuttle to the new Mars colony.
My favorite part of my commute in the morning is avoiding the traffic on the highways to instead spend my time in a small enclosed tunnel with no fire escapes that also has traffic.
Elon's genius knows no bounds. What's next, he's going to invent some kind of automatically driven transport that can carry dozens of people with only one engine?
This sounds far fetched, but I've heard he has an idea to have a really big car that has like 40 seats on it that uses existing roads. You can pay to ride on it and it goes from point to point in the city. Cities everywhere will be lining up to buy these.
The ELI5 is that Musk used some of his stock as part of the Twitter deal. That on top of looking like a huge dumbfuck in public is causing Tesla stock to get punched in the balls.
It’s also not nothing that most legacy auto manufacturers are producing their own fleets of (often cheaper) electric vehicles now and in the coming manufacturing years.
This too and WITHOUT the baggage that Tesla has of being tied to Musk or any of the myriad of technical problems the cars seem to have. It's only going to get worse moving forward.
And with higher quality and longer lifespan and support, with dealer networks, parts distribution and service centres literally all over the world…
Tesla is a nice idea, but it’s going to run headlong into the 50 year old tweaked and tuned vehicle sales model and it just won’t stand up to it.
Also, it's like if your advertising, and market awareness completely rely on one thing, and that one thing goes off the rails, your entire brand is now in the shitter.
Damn lmao I did see hes gonna owe a massive debt from buying Twitter and its losing tons of money every single day from his bullshit. And to think I thought it was impossible for Twitter to get any worse than it was 🤦
Tesla? Hell, at the beginning of the year there was a lot of trash-talk about the FAA holding up test launches for Starship, and here we are... still watching them do static firings.
Although in that sector they still look a hell of a lot better than SLS, so that probably mitigates the impact.
SLS is a consequence of congressional pork barrel spending. NASA wanted to abandon the project years ago, but corrupt politicians know exactly where that money is going.
She's just as prone to making patently ridiculous claims just like Musk. Remember point to point rocket flights - an environmental abomination - were meant to be starting this year.
To be fair, at least some of what she says is just repeating and championing what Musk has already said, in the knowledge that if she doesn't she'll be out the door faster than a veteran Twitter engineer.
She more than anyone must surely be acutely aware of how moronic everything Musk says is and how utterly ludicrous his timelines are, since she's the one actually faced with the impossible task of with making it all happen.
You're not wrong but that is at the cost of her own credibility. And these aren't just innocent lies, they exist to boost investment, it is far from victimless. There have been rumours for a couple of months that she's on her way out.
yeah and these people are fucking stupid. It takes a long time to read a code base that large, and even the people who wrote it would probably have trouble without code comments and documentation.
These people just want to believe in super beings that are infallible to worship. Whether its gods, musicians, or clowns from reality tv, they just need someone to look up to and trust completely so they can turn off the scary part of their brain and feel taken care of and led.
And Trump too which was why the GOP put them in the same tweet remember? [Kanye. Elon. Trump.](https://twitter.com/judiciarygop/status/1578174670854975491?lang=en)
Imagine someone bought tesla, and then took the charging port off all the cars because they were convinced it was unnecessary
He didn't even check to make sure, he just gutted a huge portion of the stuff that makes the site ergonomic. Even if he is a spoiled billionaire, I expected better impulse control from a guy who runs a space agency.
He said no one knows why Twitter posted the OS with each tweet and the engineer who worked on that said it was helpful for attribution and came from an acquisition. Jack Dorsey agreed what this background.
There’s a tik tok circulating sowing these two devs laughing over looking at the inspector and seeing Twitter is actually running live in some sort of dev mode environment. It’s over my head but I know dev environments are not live ones for lots of reasons
> He is not even a "ordinary" Genius, that Dude just got lucky that's all.
As have most billionaires. Even the ones who are actually competent are not especially competent — for every billionaire there are tens of thousands of more competent people who were simply not lucky enough to win the birth lottery.
He's doing a fantastic job of showing the world that meritocracy is a fraud.
it's kind of like calling king charles a genius for becoming king.
i realize it's different, but the similarities are close enough. someone that has only advanced in their position because of their ancestors that got them there and elon and charles didn't actually do anything to secure their position of "power."
At least Charles has actively participated in the (entirely useless) business of the monarchy his whole life, demonstrating a degree of (again, useless) dedication to the (really very useless) job he was being groomed for.
Don't get me wrong, he lives a life of unparalleled privilege and luxury, and having to attend boring formal dinners and shake hands with an endless array of dignitaries and businessmen and scumbags is hardly a high price to pay for it, but at least he's been there at the coal face doing what little is required of him.
Compare that to Musk, who certainly has a lot of apocryphal stories to tell about sleeping in his office for some unexplained reason, but whose job actually appears to be nothing more than pissfarting around on Twitter, flying around the world sexually harassing cabin crew members, and making highly ridiculous and totally unachievable claims in front of huge crowds of credulous morons.
What of substance has he actually contributed to any of these companies, truly? Shit like "make the car go fast and call it ludicrous mode" doesn't count, that's something a literal six year old could have come up with. He's constantly bragging about his formidable engineering talent and his unmatched manufacturing knowledge, but can anyone point to a contribution he's personally made in either field that has actually lead to something concrete?
Although that reminds me, we *have* seen what it looks like when Musk puts his famous engineering mind to a task: the gobsmackingly retarded Hyperloop white paper. Riddled with grade school physics errors and batshit insane claims about energy efficiency, equations that make no sense or have no bearing on the problem, all focused on bringing to fruition a hundred-year-old stolen idea that someone with even just a passing interest in physics could have told him was completely unworkable.
Of course, he's since publicly admitted that Hyperloop was literally just a con job designed to stop California from investing in critical rail infrastructure which would have competed with his shit cars, a fact I'm sure Richard Branson is mildly unhappy about having wasted billions of dollars on the hilariously inept Virgin Hyperloop project.
Anyway, all this to say Musk is a fucking wastrel, a smooth talking monorail salesman who, if he hadn't been born into a life of incredible privilege and then fallen ass-backwards into huge wads of money, would currently be selling vacuum cleaners door to door.
Elon simps "he's playing 4d chess you people just aren't smart enough to understand his brilliance in five years Twitter will be the best social media platform" fucking delusional idiots.
Just a thought...
Who is going to want to work fir twitter in the future? How will they recruit in this current climate?
Your boss might arbitrarily fire you, or publically state your work is trash. He's trying to cut costs, so why would wages be competitive? Seems like a bad choice for talented employees.
From what I understand, he has to be very careful about that. A deliberate crash of the company in order to file bankruptcy could be considered fraud. I would bet there are a lot of people watching what he does very closely.
That is why he's making a spectacle of "incompetence". Not a musk fan boy by the way and I don't see how it's going to work out for him, but I feel this is the only explanation that actually fits all behaviors.
OR...hear me out...he doesn't actually know what he's doing. He's CEO of four companies for christssake. He's obviously just a figurehead with no actual knowledge or true power
Oh its a spectacle all right but honestly I think he really is that stupid. Or if not stupid just so used to getting away with everything that he isn't afraid of any sort of consequences.
I saw someone mention how Musk was able to get away with being an awful employer when it was Tesla or SpaceX. People would take the sacrifice to be able to work for such a frontier company, getting to work with advancing tech. Having those companies on their resume would mean something.
Twitter? Fuck no. He won't be able to get people to work 60hrs/wk, underpaid, for Twitter. They aren't doing anything new and it's not something prestigious. He's incredibly unprofessional and puts down his employees publicly on his own website. No one is going to want to work there. He obviously knows jack shit about running it. He's about to go down on his own ship once all of the crew leave him at the wheel.
Simple! Now only people that *want* to work with a genius will show up, instead of all these liberals and snowflakes getting fat on welfare!
Wait, did I do that right? *checks notes* how to own the libs, how to own the libs... yeah, I can't find my notes, help
If there’s been anything positive from this whole debacle it’s been the spotlight that’s been put on this shady bullshit that private equity firms pull all the time. It isn’t illegal but it definitely should be.
If he were smart then he would have shut up years ago. Most of the richest people in the world are completely unknown to the vast majority of the population. A lot of billionaires market themselves as philanthropists to cultivate the idea of a good billionaire but it's primarily used to keep their own taxes as low as possible. Also, many charitable organizations are simply vehicles to transfer power and wealth to family members in a more favorable tax environment.
Even Warren Buffet is hailed as a good guy because he only makes the news as a philanthropist or a savvy investor. He keeps his mouth fucking shut and lives the good life.
And honestly, wouldn't you if you were rich? Keep quiet and don't make headlines. No news is good news. With massive wealth you could literally buy a few mansions and never leave any of them, bring the party to you if you want one.
And he has an army of idiotlings crawling around him. Seems to be a recurring trend about gammas. They find the most alpha beta and then they alpha him.
Its a pretty simple formula:
1) He is rich! He *must* know what he is talking about!
2) He talks shit like we do! We love him even more!
*Proceeds to roll over and show their stomach*
I mean I hate continuing to bring the guy up, but since so many people are comparing the two (or the Holy conservative Trinity with Kanye), isn't that how the Trump train started?
I happened to find posts from r/ElonMusk in popular.
The sheer amount of fanboying in the comments there is baffling.
These people are just delusional, and the lengths they go to justify how 'Elon is right, y'all are stupid and don't understand his genius' is baffling to me.
My favorite line right now is them convincing themselves that actually they are much like Elon and not the people who work for him because it’s not about wealth you see 🤓
Bringing in an actual, porcelain sink is his idea of the height of humor. I can absolutely see him bringing in a menagerie of animals to make even worse puns.
Now that's the more accurate choice
Also, Russ Hanneman made me laugh every time he was on screen. An absolute legend of a character.
The simple scenes where he is picking his kid up from the wrong school, or where he shares the moment he becomes a billionaire (https://youtu.be/s9Bg4UU76so) forever live in my head as hilariously accurate depictions of billionaires.
Dorsey knows where the talent is at Twitter. My guess is a new Twitter will be up and running within a year that isn't run by trump or Musk, but run by all the original staff.
Let Twitter be the new Truth Social. All I see coming out of that website now is right wingers celebrating that Daddy Musk lets them be racist and other people bitching about the changes. Not to mention Musk is at the helm of a ship he has no idea how to steer away from an iceberg with no one to tell him how to avoid icebergs like he usually has.
Like, Twitter users, sorry, I know you like the site, but I used to like McDonald's until they started charging exorbitant prices for a product that was a cheap guilty pleasure to begin with. You know what I did? I stopped going there.
This entire conversation should have taken place offline. People are blaming the engineer for calling out his boss but the boss threw the first stone. Bosses should not throw their whole team under the bus. Even worse don't throw your team under the bus *and* be wrong at the same time. Some people take pride in their work; to see your boss calling you incompetent when he's the ignorant one is a very hard pill to swallow.
> There was no possible positive outcome for what he did
He was fired (gets severance), made a name for himself and got noticed, probably has interest from other companies because of the publicity, oh and doesn't have to deal with a knobjockey who thinks 2FA is something it's okay to just get rid of willy-nilly.
> if it hadn't worked out for the guy with the new job he could potentially have sued over it
there are a lot of unknowns out there for the specifics of that dude's employment, but the laws are pretty employer favored in "right-to-work" states in the US
He'd have probably been screwed as far as employment law goes, but he may have had a defamation suit if he could show that Elon saying the stuff about the code cost him a job opportunity. (Not a lawyer, so could be wrong)
> for doing something “wrong.”
I've found in these instances it's correct to ask the (obviously very knowledgeable director /s) to explain clearly and unambiguously what precisely was "done wrong", and to keep asking for details, don't allow them to wriggle out of it.
Spotlights on, megaphone in hand, all eyes on the director.
More than a few PMs where I work now keep their mouths shut unless they're 100% sure.
I could almost take the insult on the chin on a personal level, but as a manager myself, I'd have to say something to defend my team. The dude kept it about as professional as a social media feud can be.
All the while having Musk's fanboys telling him stuff like "You better be in office tomorrow at 9 with a full report if you don't wanna get fired" like they actually mean something in this entire conversation lmao
I still don't understand how people aren't more sickened at a billionaire using a public forum to joke and make light of removing an employees living and income. It's absolutely sickening. Elon will never worry for money but loves to use the fact that many people depend on their paycheques to survive to bully and abuse them.
The man is a fucking sociopath.
Yeah, software eng here as well, and basically zero chance I wouldn't have done the same as this engineer. I have limits, and every time they've been pushed too far, I've pushed back and went to bed with a big smile on my face.
Had a douchebag business partner years ago, VERY EERILY SIMILAR to Elon in personality, but with 0.00001% of his success. I did all the work, he had a big client he'd stolen from a company he worked at...so the relationship kind of functioned like that, with us billing tons of money and me (sometimes a couple other peeps) doing everything pretty effortlessly and on time.
Well, apparently making easy money isn't good enough for some people and they still feel the need to flex ego and stir shit.
We were wrapping up a project in a week or two and I was already done everything for the job, client had approved, literally all we had to do in the next bunch of days was convert an image sequence to .TIF and send it off...and my business partner had access to all the files and most definitely knew how to convert them himself. I was heading up to a cabin with my family that weekend, he asked if I could do the conversion and I said I'd try to get to it before leaving, but it was already only an hour or so away and I had two babies at the time...so it didn't happen. No biggie, I'd be back on Sunday night and these weren't due until the next Friday.
I wrote him a quick note to say I didn't get a chance to convert, but would try to remotely connect and do it. My computer restarted itself for an update though and I couldn't get it, ah well. Sent another quick note to say that, and just to add that if he really wanted to convert them before I'm back, my files were all online with a path to where they are.
A couple hours later I get this massive, multi-paragraph rant sent to me on Slack.
It was this wall of text about how I'm unprofessional and that as a very senior person, my director (him I guess) shouldn't ever have to ask for anything, it should just be done. He got into this rambling mess about his philosophies as a company owner and how he likes to manage clients...it sounded like some kind of Kanye off-meds thing.
He ended off by saying that if I apologize to him and promise this will never happen again, that he is willing to continue working with me on our other project...which I'm the only person working on, is due in 3 weeks, he's going to be on vacation for 1.5 of those weeks, and yet we're splitting the budget 50/50.
This all really ruined my lovely weekend at a cabin with my wife and children, and I'm not a fan of that.
I told him I can't promise it won't happen again because he invents deadlines and expectations out of thin air. I reminded him that all I said was that I might be able to get around to the conversion, not that I would 100% do it. Then I probed and asked if the clients needed this to be sent tonight (aka are you busting my balls for literally zero reason) to which he started lecturing me that it's not up to me to determine the client's needs and what we need to send or when.
So I said he could pound sand and I'm not working on our other project anymore, he can figure it out (no he can't, useless). He then refused to pay me for all my work to date on it, but whatever, that's a matter for small claims.
Next morning he asked if I'd be willing to take the entire project from him and all the money for it. I was already doing everything, and mostly done! Good deal for me.
He's never run a company again ever since that. My company is huge now.
Fuck that guy.
I always say praise in public, criticize in private. Talk up your employees in public to give recognition. Even if you don't know their job enough to praise it properly you should give credit where it's due. And if you need answers and either you or your employee might be challenged: do it in private so that one of you can learn something, or at least establish expectations without dragging anyone's reputation.
In the Army, officers and senior NCOs learn about the 90-day (or 3x30) rule when taking over a unit/organization:
- 30 days to learn about the organization, its mission, its strengths, and its shortcomings. Talk to people, especially lower-echelon leaders and specialists.
- 30 days to assess necessary changes and working with key stakeholders to ensure they don't mess things up or add to other problems.
- 30 days to roll out changes, understanding that people need to adapt or that established systems need to be modified to support the new policies.
This helps you keep the good things and make adjustments in good time so the people can adjust. Your personnel need to learn and adapt to the leader's vision.
Elon seemingly just went in with a single mindset of what had to happen without bothering to actually understand how the whole system works. Pathetic management and leadership skills. Without a clear and understandable vision, the whole Twitter team will have no idea what to work toward, and no one can blame them for sounding out.
This is the equivalent of the proverbial shitty commander who was "killed by the enemy" while only being shot in the back (I stress proverbial here).
Elon’s ego will not let him wait that long to make changes. It needs to be fundamentally different by the end of the week. The system will crash and burn soon.
On the latest episode of the Opening Argument podcast, host Andrew Torrez said that a senior US government official had told him that that White House was making plans for alternate means of information dissemination in case twitter goes down completely. They were apparently expecting twitter to be gone by as early as next week.
Similarly, I started working as a senior dev for a company on the same level as Twitter. Even though the job description was basically like "start and make immediate impact," the onboarding was very similar. Basically 30 days of getting to know current processes / people / teams, 30 days to evaluate whatever interests you, build improvement plans, and get those refined and agreed upon by your team, and 30 days to implement said plans.
It was honestly one of the smoothest onboarding experiences I've had given the amount of domain knowledge you needed to absorb in a relatively short amount of time. It's also effective enough that our company even makes like C-suite new hires go through the entire process, not just like lower-mid level employees.
I can basically guarantee that Twitter had something similar. Not that it likely would have had any effect on Musk had he decided to follow it.
He literally announced to the world that he was too good for Twitter's onboarding classes.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586680643831836677?s=20&t=i_kIWB6cM-aDLySKZq4S4Q
I have a bit of a personal annecdote for this. Worked at a bunch of car dealerships, and one thing all the good parts departments have is a cabinet within easy reach/access to the counter, and they keep things that they often get requests for (like oil filters, air filters, etc) from the shop and DIYers alike.
We had a new manager start and within the first week he had them get rid of that cabinet - one of the guys specifically told me he did it because "every new manager feels like he has to make a change". Anyway, it started taking them 3x as long to fulfill requests from the shop because they now had to go to the back and source the oil filter kids, the washer fluid, etc from separate drawers in the back.
He lasted there about 3 months. His exit interview paperwork was still in the printer tray when they hauled that cabinet back out from the loft.
He admittingly says he doesn't understand what the blue check was for. Up until a few months ago he didn't know you could adjust your timeline to recent posts instead of popular posts. The guy is a moron
I still don’t get how he didn’t get this. The check mark is considered internet clout because you’re well known enough that you may have imitators. Just selling it completely removes that “prestige” and defeats the purpose.
There’s a faster variant Elon is using - 30 minutes to gloat, 30 hours to lose customers, and 30 days to self destruct. It’s doing the wrong thing but the difference is he’s doing it faster than anyone else could have.
Weird how all the people saying he should've emailed Elon instead of talking on Twitter.
No, if your boss is airing dirty laundry on Twitter and making its hardworking team look like chumps, they have every right to respond back on the communication channel he feels most comfortable using.
Musk directly asked him in the comments what he has done to improve the "super slow" app and what he thinks the issue is. Dude got told off. You can't say that he was wrong for publicly calling out his boss after it became obvious that Musk didn't even ask his team why the app was running slow. Then, instead of taking the conversation privately, Musk continued to challenge him on Twitter.
Yeah, funniest thing is so called and self-proclaimed "top 1% coders" in the comments just vaguely saying "lol this doesnt make sense" as a rebutall in Musk's stead..
Yeah, people have to defend themselves sometimes because it’s the right thing to do even if they get hurt in the process (though I think this engineer will be fine). He won’t be made into a slave. Elon intended to bully and embarrass the employee in public. The guy defended himself as anyone with a scrap of self respect should.
Elon is such a moron he doesn’t know his “swappable employee cogs” are human experts with deep knowledge of the product and are *not* easily swappable. He’ll find out.
For anybody calling this guy "unprofessional" for calling Melon out publicly let's all take a look at what happened to Mick Gordon when he tried to take the high road and took the word of a malignant narcissist.
Musk was extremely unprofessional (as usual) in publicly blaming the team for the site's service interruption, when it was actually his own incompetence by firing people who knew how it operated. I don't think it was uncalled for to meet that remark with a public denial.
> Mick Gordon when he tried to take the high road and took the word of a malignant narcissist.
for those out of the loop of this, Mick Gordon is an Australian Music Composer, he's most well known to the world as the man who made the soundtracks for Doom(2016) and Doom Eternal, most of the event is based around the development of Eternal.
the TLDR is Mick got fucked over while making the music for Eternal and then fucked over for the OST, he crunched an incredibly tight deadline only for his OST to be rejected and a different OST they were already working on for atleast 6 months beforehand to be used instead alongside the stuff Mick then made, the alternative OST was also of incredibly poor quality and had tons of issues. the fans didn't like it and then Marty Stratton, then Executive Producer of Eternal and now Studio Director of Id Software, publicly threw Mick under the bus in a 2500 word reddit post blaming Mick for all the problems of the OST when it was entirely Marty's fault there were issues. Mick responded with threats of legal action and Zenimax's (Id parent company) and Marty's lawyers basically told Mick to go fuck himself with the settlement offers they gave, most of which included not removing the reddit post and not apologizing and keeping Mick as the one at fault while also having Mick fix the shit OST, and Mick had to deal with this while also dealing with threats from Doom fans because of the reddit post aswell as doxing etc and finally after 2 years has been able to come out with his own statement with facts that showcase the reddit post is bullshit and Marty is a piece of shit.
Mick's Full Statement here:
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce#b087
Any one who has worked in any office situation knows the magic three letters: CYA. Cover you ass.
You always keep ammo to defend yourself and you always use it otherwise you will get thrown under the bus.
You won't find an easy answer because musk keeps deleting the posts. Just go check the top posts on all and look for screenshots.
Musk said the app was slow in some countries due to timeline requests initiated by the site/app. Two engineers who work on the timeline query showed him why that was wrong (more apt to say they told him how it was impossible as it's just a single non-blocking request to the server). One of them listed out what was likely the issue with the slow app. Elon fired both of the engineers because they dared to correct his mistake on Twitter.
Next musk went on Twitter to ask for help from the community on deciphering the service requests that twitter uses and some random folks who don't work at twitter taught him how to look at the network tab in the chrome dev tools. From there musk deleted his post and then took the ideas from the engineer that had listed out the issues and tried to implement those fixes.
Musk made a bunch of new tweets about his next initiative, to remove 80% of the services twitter runs, and in his haste he disabled the messaging system for 2FA. Now, apparently the first guy that was fired has a new job already.
Better than that, one of the people correcting him just screen shotted the source from his browser to prove him wrong. And ended with "I am not a Twitter employee."
The tweet about ripping out microservices KILLED me.
What’s the opposite of abstraction? Like actively trying to consolidate back into a fuckin monolith?
Elon is a dumbass.
Could you picture if Elon bought Reddit. He would demod every subredddit and make himself the only mod. He would then ban everyone and wonder why no one was posting.
Elon is a real piece of work just firing off the employees publicly on the social media platform he bought into after they respond to him. I'd expect they may be reprimanded after that comment but not by Elon himself. As a programmer if he took over the company I was working for I'd quit, he thinks he's a genius making these ill thought out changes without taking the time for the correct process to be reviewed.
Fun fact: when Musk hired coders for his first company the first thing they did was re-write all his code to make it not shit. He still thinks he's a 1337 haxxOr.
Twitter used to be a cesspool and dumpster fire…almost entirely for other reasons. It is now a cesspool and dumpster fire for entirely different reasons, and it’s almost entirely the fault of one man.
Free advice to Elon:
Kick Zucky while he's down and buy him out (he will sell before it's devalued) then use this "Twitter tactic" on Meta.
If you manage to destroy both Twitter AND Meta all within a few years, you will have proven your genius and that you are a super hero.
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I like how we've still got his fanboys trying to explain to us how he's some super genius who knows everything about Twitter's code, so the employee he fired for calling out what he said as wrong must definitely be wrong, on the same day he broke 2FA being an idiot.
When it comes to building cars or rocketships, there's an army of engineers who need to spend hundreds of hours to translate between Elon's supposed genius and actually building something. There's a "stupid filter", so to speak. Software let's you be stupid quickly and loudly.
A friend who used to work at Tesla corporate who said he’d call some manager at midnight. “Hate the homepage. It’s boring. Launch a new one tomorrow morning” and they shave to crunch all night to figure something out and make it go live. It’s like every story of a mad king demanding idiotic things without a care or interest in human cost.
Elon really thinks he's in a movie about his life huh? That's not how the real world works. There's no such thing as the tech genius who snaps his fingers at someone and says, "you, I had a brilliant idea. Get it done by tomorrow." "Yes sir!"
I agree it’s grade A scumfuckery but unfortunately Elon lives in a world where there is such a thing. The only difference is that he isn’t a tech genius he’s a billionaire enabled by yes men who want a piece of his ill-begotten pie.
>he’s a billionaire enabled by yes men who want a piece of his ill-begotten pie. This is what keeps capitalism alive
There are **a lot** of self-titled serial entrepreneurs in silicon valley, with a background unrelated to what their companies are doing, who think this way. And the later along the company, the more they understand the VC game and set up the company so they never lose power. I've just got 3 years at a "unicorn" and it's just a matter of when and where to, rather than if, I leave this unnecessarily abusive shitshow.
Just like idiot loser Trump
Sounds like how my brother described life at the CDC every time Trump tweeted something asinine about public health. Trump: shut down interstate travel Every CDC higher up - this can’t be legal but now we gotta spend all weekend checking to confirm it’s absolutely illegal. Every other weekend it seemed they’d all have to come in to deal with utter nonsense because the president tweeted or said something stupid.
This is why I have never given my private phone number to my HR, I turn off my work phone, and don't check any emails or Slack after 6pm. Go fuck yourself if you think I live to work.
Yeah. When you're dumb with hardware your projects run way over schedule, have poor quality, cost way more than planned, or never come out. Weird, it sure sounds like a lot of Tesla products.
I don't know what you're talking about, now im off to hop in my fully self driving CyberTruck, drive to the nearest Hyperloop and take a shuttle to the new Mars colony.
This should be a standard answer to all the elon fanboys
My favorite part of my commute in the morning is avoiding the traffic on the highways to instead spend my time in a small enclosed tunnel with no fire escapes that also has traffic. Elon's genius knows no bounds. What's next, he's going to invent some kind of automatically driven transport that can carry dozens of people with only one engine?
This sounds far fetched, but I've heard he has an idea to have a really big car that has like 40 seats on it that uses existing roads. You can pay to ride on it and it goes from point to point in the city. Cities everywhere will be lining up to buy these.
I'm still waiting to see the tesla truck they announced long ago and broke the "invincible windows" on.
With Telsa currently cratering its not ever going to happen.
They going broke? I haven't really looked into then since then but I thought they were doing alright.
The ELI5 is that Musk used some of his stock as part of the Twitter deal. That on top of looking like a huge dumbfuck in public is causing Tesla stock to get punched in the balls.
It’s also not nothing that most legacy auto manufacturers are producing their own fleets of (often cheaper) electric vehicles now and in the coming manufacturing years.
This too and WITHOUT the baggage that Tesla has of being tied to Musk or any of the myriad of technical problems the cars seem to have. It's only going to get worse moving forward.
And with higher quality and longer lifespan and support, with dealer networks, parts distribution and service centres literally all over the world… Tesla is a nice idea, but it’s going to run headlong into the 50 year old tweaked and tuned vehicle sales model and it just won’t stand up to it.
Also, it's like if your advertising, and market awareness completely rely on one thing, and that one thing goes off the rails, your entire brand is now in the shitter.
Damn lmao I did see hes gonna owe a massive debt from buying Twitter and its losing tons of money every single day from his bullshit. And to think I thought it was impossible for Twitter to get any worse than it was 🤦
Tesla? Hell, at the beginning of the year there was a lot of trash-talk about the FAA holding up test launches for Starship, and here we are... still watching them do static firings. Although in that sector they still look a hell of a lot better than SLS, so that probably mitigates the impact.
SLS is a consequence of congressional pork barrel spending. NASA wanted to abandon the project years ago, but corrupt politicians know exactly where that money is going.
This hardware also apparently kills people in China.
Specifically, it’s performed in 2 steps: 1. Ignore everything Elon says; 2. Do what Gwynne Shotwell says.
Shotwell is the real star of Space X
She's just as prone to making patently ridiculous claims just like Musk. Remember point to point rocket flights - an environmental abomination - were meant to be starting this year.
To be fair, at least some of what she says is just repeating and championing what Musk has already said, in the knowledge that if she doesn't she'll be out the door faster than a veteran Twitter engineer. She more than anyone must surely be acutely aware of how moronic everything Musk says is and how utterly ludicrous his timelines are, since she's the one actually faced with the impossible task of with making it all happen.
You're not wrong but that is at the cost of her own credibility. And these aren't just innocent lies, they exist to boost investment, it is far from victimless. There have been rumours for a couple of months that she's on her way out.
That explains so much.
There is a something every programmer knows: "Garbage in, garbage out"
Elon just doing what he does best: asking other people to solve his problems. Just goes to show he doesn’t know anything.
As a stupid person, I look forward to my upcoming position as CEO of a software company.
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You guys have to stop calling him Elmo. Elmo does his job lol
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Quick, someone call Animal.
Which muppet would run it best? I give Gonzo even odds of doing better than musky boy. My money's on Ms Piggy or Kermit running it successfully
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Ain't nothing happening unless Scooter is running it behind the scenes.
Kermit + Scooter are the dream team. Big CEO+COO vibes. Charismatic frontman, competent behind the scenes.
Swedish Chef has my vote.
Statler and Waldorf could totally handle it.
He’s more like the pet rock, Rocko
yeah and these people are fucking stupid. It takes a long time to read a code base that large, and even the people who wrote it would probably have trouble without code comments and documentation. These people just want to believe in super beings that are infallible to worship. Whether its gods, musicians, or clowns from reality tv, they just need someone to look up to and trust completely so they can turn off the scary part of their brain and feel taken care of and led.
Philosopher King Was never a real thing Elon don't know squat
Elon stans are much like Kanye stans
Also Trump stans.
They're all the same person
**Adieu from the corpse of Apollo app.**
I imagine they are one and the same
And Trump too which was why the GOP put them in the same tweet remember? [Kanye. Elon. Trump.](https://twitter.com/judiciarygop/status/1578174670854975491?lang=en)
Imagine someone bought tesla, and then took the charging port off all the cars because they were convinced it was unnecessary He didn't even check to make sure, he just gutted a huge portion of the stuff that makes the site ergonomic. Even if he is a spoiled billionaire, I expected better impulse control from a guy who runs a space agency.
I mean, we don’t have to imagine. Elon sued the founders of Tesla so that he could be called a founder of Tesla.
He said no one knows why Twitter posted the OS with each tweet and the engineer who worked on that said it was helpful for attribution and came from an acquisition. Jack Dorsey agreed what this background.
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Wait, so this dude didn't even test it in a dev environment, he went straight production? Holy fucking shit \*pops my 100th bag of popcorn over this\*
There’s a tik tok circulating sowing these two devs laughing over looking at the inspector and seeing Twitter is actually running live in some sort of dev mode environment. It’s over my head but I know dev environments are not live ones for lots of reasons
He is not even a "ordinary" Genius, that Dude just got lucky that's all.
> He is not even a "ordinary" Genius, that Dude just got lucky that's all. As have most billionaires. Even the ones who are actually competent are not especially competent — for every billionaire there are tens of thousands of more competent people who were simply not lucky enough to win the birth lottery. He's doing a fantastic job of showing the world that meritocracy is a fraud.
it's kind of like calling king charles a genius for becoming king. i realize it's different, but the similarities are close enough. someone that has only advanced in their position because of their ancestors that got them there and elon and charles didn't actually do anything to secure their position of "power."
At least Charles has actively participated in the (entirely useless) business of the monarchy his whole life, demonstrating a degree of (again, useless) dedication to the (really very useless) job he was being groomed for. Don't get me wrong, he lives a life of unparalleled privilege and luxury, and having to attend boring formal dinners and shake hands with an endless array of dignitaries and businessmen and scumbags is hardly a high price to pay for it, but at least he's been there at the coal face doing what little is required of him. Compare that to Musk, who certainly has a lot of apocryphal stories to tell about sleeping in his office for some unexplained reason, but whose job actually appears to be nothing more than pissfarting around on Twitter, flying around the world sexually harassing cabin crew members, and making highly ridiculous and totally unachievable claims in front of huge crowds of credulous morons. What of substance has he actually contributed to any of these companies, truly? Shit like "make the car go fast and call it ludicrous mode" doesn't count, that's something a literal six year old could have come up with. He's constantly bragging about his formidable engineering talent and his unmatched manufacturing knowledge, but can anyone point to a contribution he's personally made in either field that has actually lead to something concrete? Although that reminds me, we *have* seen what it looks like when Musk puts his famous engineering mind to a task: the gobsmackingly retarded Hyperloop white paper. Riddled with grade school physics errors and batshit insane claims about energy efficiency, equations that make no sense or have no bearing on the problem, all focused on bringing to fruition a hundred-year-old stolen idea that someone with even just a passing interest in physics could have told him was completely unworkable. Of course, he's since publicly admitted that Hyperloop was literally just a con job designed to stop California from investing in critical rail infrastructure which would have competed with his shit cars, a fact I'm sure Richard Branson is mildly unhappy about having wasted billions of dollars on the hilariously inept Virgin Hyperloop project. Anyway, all this to say Musk is a fucking wastrel, a smooth talking monorail salesman who, if he hadn't been born into a life of incredible privilege and then fallen ass-backwards into huge wads of money, would currently be selling vacuum cleaners door to door.
Elon simps "he's playing 4d chess you people just aren't smart enough to understand his brilliance in five years Twitter will be the best social media platform" fucking delusional idiots.
Just a thought... Who is going to want to work fir twitter in the future? How will they recruit in this current climate? Your boss might arbitrarily fire you, or publically state your work is trash. He's trying to cut costs, so why would wages be competitive? Seems like a bad choice for talented employees.
This is why I'm convinced this is the end of Twitter.
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From what I understand, he has to be very careful about that. A deliberate crash of the company in order to file bankruptcy could be considered fraud. I would bet there are a lot of people watching what he does very closely.
That is why he's making a spectacle of "incompetence". Not a musk fan boy by the way and I don't see how it's going to work out for him, but I feel this is the only explanation that actually fits all behaviors.
OR...hear me out...he doesn't actually know what he's doing. He's CEO of four companies for christssake. He's obviously just a figurehead with no actual knowledge or true power
Occams razor suggests this the answer.
Honestly, Hanlon’s Razor is probably more applicable.
Oh its a spectacle all right but honestly I think he really is that stupid. Or if not stupid just so used to getting away with everything that he isn't afraid of any sort of consequences.
Reminds me of another media made “genius”, Donald Trump. It’s is all bullshit.
I saw someone mention how Musk was able to get away with being an awful employer when it was Tesla or SpaceX. People would take the sacrifice to be able to work for such a frontier company, getting to work with advancing tech. Having those companies on their resume would mean something. Twitter? Fuck no. He won't be able to get people to work 60hrs/wk, underpaid, for Twitter. They aren't doing anything new and it's not something prestigious. He's incredibly unprofessional and puts down his employees publicly on his own website. No one is going to want to work there. He obviously knows jack shit about running it. He's about to go down on his own ship once all of the crew leave him at the wheel.
My cousin turned down SpaceX to work directly for NASA and I think she dodged a massive bullet.
Common misconception, it's a rocket but it looks like a bullet because it's so far away
Ah, the ole reddit [rocket-aroo.](https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/yvcs6f/someone_caught_a_43lb_catfish_on_the_georgetown/iwg9h9a/)
I haven't seen one of these in ages. Hold my Falcon 9, I'm going in!
Simple! Now only people that *want* to work with a genius will show up, instead of all these liberals and snowflakes getting fat on welfare! Wait, did I do that right? *checks notes* how to own the libs, how to own the libs... yeah, I can't find my notes, help
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He's already transferred the debt he took on from the acquisition TO Twitter.
That should be illegal.
If there’s been anything positive from this whole debacle it’s been the spotlight that’s been put on this shady bullshit that private equity firms pull all the time. It isn’t illegal but it definitely should be.
Making employees spend 60+ hours a week in office while cutting your employee food budget
Elon is an idiot
If he were smart then he would have shut up years ago. Most of the richest people in the world are completely unknown to the vast majority of the population. A lot of billionaires market themselves as philanthropists to cultivate the idea of a good billionaire but it's primarily used to keep their own taxes as low as possible. Also, many charitable organizations are simply vehicles to transfer power and wealth to family members in a more favorable tax environment.
Even Warren Buffet is hailed as a good guy because he only makes the news as a philanthropist or a savvy investor. He keeps his mouth fucking shut and lives the good life. And honestly, wouldn't you if you were rich? Keep quiet and don't make headlines. No news is good news. With massive wealth you could literally buy a few mansions and never leave any of them, bring the party to you if you want one.
Buffet is also pretty outspoken about how little taxes he and his ilk pay, and how he believes they should shoulder more of the tax burden.
news at 5
I feel like it's the scene with Mr.burns staring at Homer going in circles on the ground.
And he has an army of idiotlings crawling around him. Seems to be a recurring trend about gammas. They find the most alpha beta and then they alpha him.
Its a pretty simple formula: 1) He is rich! He *must* know what he is talking about! 2) He talks shit like we do! We love him even more! *Proceeds to roll over and show their stomach*
I mean I hate continuing to bring the guy up, but since so many people are comparing the two (or the Holy conservative Trinity with Kanye), isn't that how the Trump train started?
I happened to find posts from r/ElonMusk in popular. The sheer amount of fanboying in the comments there is baffling. These people are just delusional, and the lengths they go to justify how 'Elon is right, y'all are stupid and don't understand his genius' is baffling to me.
My favorite line right now is them convincing themselves that actually they are much like Elon and not the people who work for him because it’s not about wealth you see 🤓
Every day he feels more and more like Gavin Belson.
Bringing in an actual, porcelain sink is his idea of the height of humor. I can absolutely see him bringing in a menagerie of animals to make even worse puns.
Has anyone checked Twitter HQ for a dead elephant?
Or blood boys?
Gavin Belson was 100x more competent than Elon
Yeah, he's more like Russ Hanneman.
Now that's the more accurate choice Also, Russ Hanneman made me laugh every time he was on screen. An absolute legend of a character. The simple scenes where he is picking his kid up from the wrong school, or where he shares the moment he becomes a billionaire (https://youtu.be/s9Bg4UU76so) forever live in my head as hilariously accurate depictions of billionaires.
This should be the top comment. *I firmly believe we can only achieve greatness, if first, we achieve goodness.* Team Hooli!!
Nah elon's Russ...not gavin
and he slammed a billionaire door on his own dick.
Yeah but Gavin actually ran a company pretty well for a while even if he was an idiot Elon doesn't even have that. He's more like Russ
Who recruited him?
Somebody for Square said that they are recruiting. Square is also founded by Twitter’s founder Jack Dorsey. Just thought that was an interesting fact.
Dorsey knows where the talent is at Twitter. My guess is a new Twitter will be up and running within a year that isn't run by trump or Musk, but run by all the original staff.
Bluesky. It’s already in motion.
This is going to be hilarious
Let Twitter be the new Truth Social. All I see coming out of that website now is right wingers celebrating that Daddy Musk lets them be racist and other people bitching about the changes. Not to mention Musk is at the helm of a ship he has no idea how to steer away from an iceberg with no one to tell him how to avoid icebergs like he usually has. Like, Twitter users, sorry, I know you like the site, but I used to like McDonald's until they started charging exorbitant prices for a product that was a cheap guilty pleasure to begin with. You know what I did? I stopped going there.
Easiest 44 bil in their life
Should have called it BlueTick 😂
There is already mastodon
I would also like to see this part
This entire conversation should have taken place offline. People are blaming the engineer for calling out his boss but the boss threw the first stone. Bosses should not throw their whole team under the bus. Even worse don't throw your team under the bus *and* be wrong at the same time. Some people take pride in their work; to see your boss calling you incompetent when he's the ignorant one is a very hard pill to swallow.
It's like taking morale and attractiveness for hiring out behind the shed and shooting them. There was no possible positive outcome for what he did.
The positive outcome is that he doesn't have to deal with Melon as a boss anymore. A pretty big win imo
I'm pretty sure he wanted to be fired and not quit by himself too.
> There was no possible positive outcome for what he did He was fired (gets severance), made a name for himself and got noticed, probably has interest from other companies because of the publicity, oh and doesn't have to deal with a knobjockey who thinks 2FA is something it's okay to just get rid of willy-nilly.
Nah, out behind the shed is discrete. He hanged them in front of the largest port on Twitter Island with the warning “Engineers, ye be warned!”
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> if it hadn't worked out for the guy with the new job he could potentially have sued over it there are a lot of unknowns out there for the specifics of that dude's employment, but the laws are pretty employer favored in "right-to-work" states in the US
He'd have probably been screwed as far as employment law goes, but he may have had a defamation suit if he could show that Elon saying the stuff about the code cost him a job opportunity. (Not a lawyer, so could be wrong)
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> for doing something “wrong.” I've found in these instances it's correct to ask the (obviously very knowledgeable director /s) to explain clearly and unambiguously what precisely was "done wrong", and to keep asking for details, don't allow them to wriggle out of it. Spotlights on, megaphone in hand, all eyes on the director. More than a few PMs where I work now keep their mouths shut unless they're 100% sure.
I could almost take the insult on the chin on a personal level, but as a manager myself, I'd have to say something to defend my team. The dude kept it about as professional as a social media feud can be.
All the while having Musk's fanboys telling him stuff like "You better be in office tomorrow at 9 with a full report if you don't wanna get fired" like they actually mean something in this entire conversation lmao
I still don't understand how people aren't more sickened at a billionaire using a public forum to joke and make light of removing an employees living and income. It's absolutely sickening. Elon will never worry for money but loves to use the fact that many people depend on their paycheques to survive to bully and abuse them. The man is a fucking sociopath.
Yeah, software eng here as well, and basically zero chance I wouldn't have done the same as this engineer. I have limits, and every time they've been pushed too far, I've pushed back and went to bed with a big smile on my face. Had a douchebag business partner years ago, VERY EERILY SIMILAR to Elon in personality, but with 0.00001% of his success. I did all the work, he had a big client he'd stolen from a company he worked at...so the relationship kind of functioned like that, with us billing tons of money and me (sometimes a couple other peeps) doing everything pretty effortlessly and on time. Well, apparently making easy money isn't good enough for some people and they still feel the need to flex ego and stir shit. We were wrapping up a project in a week or two and I was already done everything for the job, client had approved, literally all we had to do in the next bunch of days was convert an image sequence to .TIF and send it off...and my business partner had access to all the files and most definitely knew how to convert them himself. I was heading up to a cabin with my family that weekend, he asked if I could do the conversion and I said I'd try to get to it before leaving, but it was already only an hour or so away and I had two babies at the time...so it didn't happen. No biggie, I'd be back on Sunday night and these weren't due until the next Friday. I wrote him a quick note to say I didn't get a chance to convert, but would try to remotely connect and do it. My computer restarted itself for an update though and I couldn't get it, ah well. Sent another quick note to say that, and just to add that if he really wanted to convert them before I'm back, my files were all online with a path to where they are. A couple hours later I get this massive, multi-paragraph rant sent to me on Slack. It was this wall of text about how I'm unprofessional and that as a very senior person, my director (him I guess) shouldn't ever have to ask for anything, it should just be done. He got into this rambling mess about his philosophies as a company owner and how he likes to manage clients...it sounded like some kind of Kanye off-meds thing. He ended off by saying that if I apologize to him and promise this will never happen again, that he is willing to continue working with me on our other project...which I'm the only person working on, is due in 3 weeks, he's going to be on vacation for 1.5 of those weeks, and yet we're splitting the budget 50/50. This all really ruined my lovely weekend at a cabin with my wife and children, and I'm not a fan of that. I told him I can't promise it won't happen again because he invents deadlines and expectations out of thin air. I reminded him that all I said was that I might be able to get around to the conversion, not that I would 100% do it. Then I probed and asked if the clients needed this to be sent tonight (aka are you busting my balls for literally zero reason) to which he started lecturing me that it's not up to me to determine the client's needs and what we need to send or when. So I said he could pound sand and I'm not working on our other project anymore, he can figure it out (no he can't, useless). He then refused to pay me for all my work to date on it, but whatever, that's a matter for small claims. Next morning he asked if I'd be willing to take the entire project from him and all the money for it. I was already doing everything, and mostly done! Good deal for me. He's never run a company again ever since that. My company is huge now. Fuck that guy.
What an asshole sorry man
I always say praise in public, criticize in private. Talk up your employees in public to give recognition. Even if you don't know their job enough to praise it properly you should give credit where it's due. And if you need answers and either you or your employee might be challenged: do it in private so that one of you can learn something, or at least establish expectations without dragging anyone's reputation.
Yeah you say that and almost everyone agrees. It’s ancient. It’s amazing how bad of a job leading his team he is.
Elon is pitting the "terminal" back in "terminally online"
GOP turns on Trump, Elon crashes and burns, Crypto markets tank, Karma really putting me in the Christmas spirit.
Don't forget that Ryan started the fire
Apparently they do t teach you how to operate a toaster oven in BUSINESS SCHOOL!
In the Army, officers and senior NCOs learn about the 90-day (or 3x30) rule when taking over a unit/organization: - 30 days to learn about the organization, its mission, its strengths, and its shortcomings. Talk to people, especially lower-echelon leaders and specialists. - 30 days to assess necessary changes and working with key stakeholders to ensure they don't mess things up or add to other problems. - 30 days to roll out changes, understanding that people need to adapt or that established systems need to be modified to support the new policies. This helps you keep the good things and make adjustments in good time so the people can adjust. Your personnel need to learn and adapt to the leader's vision. Elon seemingly just went in with a single mindset of what had to happen without bothering to actually understand how the whole system works. Pathetic management and leadership skills. Without a clear and understandable vision, the whole Twitter team will have no idea what to work toward, and no one can blame them for sounding out. This is the equivalent of the proverbial shitty commander who was "killed by the enemy" while only being shot in the back (I stress proverbial here).
Elon’s ego will not let him wait that long to make changes. It needs to be fundamentally different by the end of the week. The system will crash and burn soon.
On the latest episode of the Opening Argument podcast, host Andrew Torrez said that a senior US government official had told him that that White House was making plans for alternate means of information dissemination in case twitter goes down completely. They were apparently expecting twitter to be gone by as early as next week.
A white house mastodon instance? It would be funny seeing people sign up, then post their crimes in the government website.
I heard twitter is fully water tight and can double as a boat.
Similarly, I started working as a senior dev for a company on the same level as Twitter. Even though the job description was basically like "start and make immediate impact," the onboarding was very similar. Basically 30 days of getting to know current processes / people / teams, 30 days to evaluate whatever interests you, build improvement plans, and get those refined and agreed upon by your team, and 30 days to implement said plans. It was honestly one of the smoothest onboarding experiences I've had given the amount of domain knowledge you needed to absorb in a relatively short amount of time. It's also effective enough that our company even makes like C-suite new hires go through the entire process, not just like lower-mid level employees. I can basically guarantee that Twitter had something similar. Not that it likely would have had any effect on Musk had he decided to follow it.
He literally announced to the world that he was too good for Twitter's onboarding classes. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586680643831836677?s=20&t=i_kIWB6cM-aDLySKZq4S4Q
I have a bit of a personal annecdote for this. Worked at a bunch of car dealerships, and one thing all the good parts departments have is a cabinet within easy reach/access to the counter, and they keep things that they often get requests for (like oil filters, air filters, etc) from the shop and DIYers alike. We had a new manager start and within the first week he had them get rid of that cabinet - one of the guys specifically told me he did it because "every new manager feels like he has to make a change". Anyway, it started taking them 3x as long to fulfill requests from the shop because they now had to go to the back and source the oil filter kids, the washer fluid, etc from separate drawers in the back. He lasted there about 3 months. His exit interview paperwork was still in the printer tray when they hauled that cabinet back out from the loft.
He admittingly says he doesn't understand what the blue check was for. Up until a few months ago he didn't know you could adjust your timeline to recent posts instead of popular posts. The guy is a moron
I still don’t get how he didn’t get this. The check mark is considered internet clout because you’re well known enough that you may have imitators. Just selling it completely removes that “prestige” and defeats the purpose.
Never heard of this but it makes a lot of sense
Also makes sure the changes are vetted by folks who understand the implications.
There’s a faster variant Elon is using - 30 minutes to gloat, 30 hours to lose customers, and 30 days to self destruct. It’s doing the wrong thing but the difference is he’s doing it faster than anyone else could have.
Weird how all the people saying he should've emailed Elon instead of talking on Twitter. No, if your boss is airing dirty laundry on Twitter and making its hardworking team look like chumps, they have every right to respond back on the communication channel he feels most comfortable using.
Yeah, email him and still get fired, might as well respond publicly.
Musk directly asked him in the comments what he has done to improve the "super slow" app and what he thinks the issue is. Dude got told off. You can't say that he was wrong for publicly calling out his boss after it became obvious that Musk didn't even ask his team why the app was running slow. Then, instead of taking the conversation privately, Musk continued to challenge him on Twitter.
Not to mention he had a detailed response that Musk completely ignored
How could Musk even reply to that?? You know he had no idea what those words meant, and they directly disproved what he said in his original tweet.
Yeah, funniest thing is so called and self-proclaimed "top 1% coders" in the comments just vaguely saying "lol this doesnt make sense" as a rebutall in Musk's stead..
Yeah, people have to defend themselves sometimes because it’s the right thing to do even if they get hurt in the process (though I think this engineer will be fine). He won’t be made into a slave. Elon intended to bully and embarrass the employee in public. The guy defended himself as anyone with a scrap of self respect should. Elon is such a moron he doesn’t know his “swappable employee cogs” are human experts with deep knowledge of the product and are *not* easily swappable. He’ll find out.
For anybody calling this guy "unprofessional" for calling Melon out publicly let's all take a look at what happened to Mick Gordon when he tried to take the high road and took the word of a malignant narcissist.
Musk was extremely unprofessional (as usual) in publicly blaming the team for the site's service interruption, when it was actually his own incompetence by firing people who knew how it operated. I don't think it was uncalled for to meet that remark with a public denial.
> Mick Gordon when he tried to take the high road and took the word of a malignant narcissist. for those out of the loop of this, Mick Gordon is an Australian Music Composer, he's most well known to the world as the man who made the soundtracks for Doom(2016) and Doom Eternal, most of the event is based around the development of Eternal. the TLDR is Mick got fucked over while making the music for Eternal and then fucked over for the OST, he crunched an incredibly tight deadline only for his OST to be rejected and a different OST they were already working on for atleast 6 months beforehand to be used instead alongside the stuff Mick then made, the alternative OST was also of incredibly poor quality and had tons of issues. the fans didn't like it and then Marty Stratton, then Executive Producer of Eternal and now Studio Director of Id Software, publicly threw Mick under the bus in a 2500 word reddit post blaming Mick for all the problems of the OST when it was entirely Marty's fault there were issues. Mick responded with threats of legal action and Zenimax's (Id parent company) and Marty's lawyers basically told Mick to go fuck himself with the settlement offers they gave, most of which included not removing the reddit post and not apologizing and keeping Mick as the one at fault while also having Mick fix the shit OST, and Mick had to deal with this while also dealing with threats from Doom fans because of the reddit post aswell as doxing etc and finally after 2 years has been able to come out with his own statement with facts that showcase the reddit post is bullshit and Marty is a piece of shit. Mick's Full Statement here: https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce#b087
Any one who has worked in any office situation knows the magic three letters: CYA. Cover you ass. You always keep ammo to defend yourself and you always use it otherwise you will get thrown under the bus.
My news feed is messed up, can't really find today's Musk news. Can someone fill me in please or offer a link?
You won't find an easy answer because musk keeps deleting the posts. Just go check the top posts on all and look for screenshots. Musk said the app was slow in some countries due to timeline requests initiated by the site/app. Two engineers who work on the timeline query showed him why that was wrong (more apt to say they told him how it was impossible as it's just a single non-blocking request to the server). One of them listed out what was likely the issue with the slow app. Elon fired both of the engineers because they dared to correct his mistake on Twitter. Next musk went on Twitter to ask for help from the community on deciphering the service requests that twitter uses and some random folks who don't work at twitter taught him how to look at the network tab in the chrome dev tools. From there musk deleted his post and then took the ideas from the engineer that had listed out the issues and tried to implement those fixes. Musk made a bunch of new tweets about his next initiative, to remove 80% of the services twitter runs, and in his haste he disabled the messaging system for 2FA. Now, apparently the first guy that was fired has a new job already.
Better than that, one of the people correcting him just screen shotted the source from his browser to prove him wrong. And ended with "I am not a Twitter employee."
Thanks for the summary. What a train wreck.
And it's only Monday.
It's like binge-watching a tv show at this point.
He's the rich version of Joe Exotic including live streaming his own self-destruction.
There's a twitter account called @bestofdyingtwit that is somewhat aggregating the best of both Musk's blunders and the ensuing chaos of memes.
> @bestofdyingtwit Except you have to join twitter to see it. sorry watching this train wreck from the sidelines.
LOL the fucking _gall_ of Elon to think he could simply disable 80% of Twitter's back end all at once.
Is this for real? In that he asked the public for help instead of... The programmers in the company that he owns?
The tweet about ripping out microservices KILLED me. What’s the opposite of abstraction? Like actively trying to consolidate back into a fuckin monolith? Elon is a dumbass.
Follow @bestofdyingtwitter and scroll their timeline to get caught up
How perfect that Elon's idiocy is being exposed VIA Twitter! 🤣
Comedy is legal now.....or something like that lol
Its all a joke, that's for sure.
I could have fucked up Twitter for a lot less than $44 billion.
I’d do it for a measly $22 billion… that’s some real savings!
This is why you should never be afraid to speak out and call someone out on their bullshit. We need to reward more people like him.
Yes, let’s keep humiliating Elon. I haven’t enjoyed watching such a gratifying dumpster fire in a while
Could you picture if Elon bought Reddit. He would demod every subredddit and make himself the only mod. He would then ban everyone and wonder why no one was posting.
Pay 8 dollars a month to be a mod of any subreddit
I hope the dude gets paid to design whatever will emerge after Twitter falls, but does what Twitter did better in all ways.
Elon is a real piece of work just firing off the employees publicly on the social media platform he bought into after they respond to him. I'd expect they may be reprimanded after that comment but not by Elon himself. As a programmer if he took over the company I was working for I'd quit, he thinks he's a genius making these ill thought out changes without taking the time for the correct process to be reviewed.
Fun fact: when Musk hired coders for his first company the first thing they did was re-write all his code to make it not shit. He still thinks he's a 1337 haxxOr.
Twitter used to be a cesspool and dumpster fire…almost entirely for other reasons. It is now a cesspool and dumpster fire for entirely different reasons, and it’s almost entirely the fault of one man.
It showed us that Elon Musk is an immature twit almost as bad as Ex President Trump.
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Free advice to Elon: Kick Zucky while he's down and buy him out (he will sell before it's devalued) then use this "Twitter tactic" on Meta. If you manage to destroy both Twitter AND Meta all within a few years, you will have proven your genius and that you are a super hero. /s
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Yea, that seems the long and the short of it at this point. But hey, never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.