Roger A. Shrubber
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Well no shit...They needed to write a story about that? I've been assuming all of that since the day muck took over.
Elons Little Plan
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DIY-HP-LED
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Sooner or later there will be an alternative and like the GOP, the assholes will drive the good people away. The only result I've seen from Elon owning Twitter is fucking himself and losing the most money in human history, while revealing himself to be an asshole and an idiot who believes in a multitude of conspiracy theories. It's harmed his EV, solar roof and spaceX businesses and he appears a bit too friendly and beholding to the Chinese for cheap batteries and selling cars in China.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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I would just be ecstatically happy if the US dropped all contracts with him, and started severely limiting the number of star link satellites.
He should also be forced to deal with all the dissatisfied customers he has at tesla and his solar panel business. And to pay his fucking bills on time....
Why are the people with the most money the biggest deadbeats?
DIY-HP-LED
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Elon is just one big ball of greed and ego rolling downhill and picking up speed and shit as it goes.
DIY-HP-LED
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
There are two possibilities, and neither is good for the brand.
- the Elongator, legendary tech wizard that he is, is not in control of this. And pulling an Adolf by micromanaging a large potent enterprise to its detriment.
- he is complicit.
Either way, it won’t be long before he pulls a That Man and declares a tactical bankruptcy.
If Shartsip underperforms, his record of crap management will be complete. His new moniker might be Trainwreck.
Roger A. Shrubber
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From the richest man in the world to bankruptcy...My only question is how did this shit stain asswipe asshole get to be the richest man in the world, even temporarily? I'm not saying he's stupid, i'm saying he's an asshole, a fascist, and a horrible human relations person...But i guess those things won't stop you from accumulating wealth if that's your goal.
He should hire competent managers for all his businesses and spend his time self promoting, it's what he's best at....And it would help his investors relax, knowing he isn't taking an active hand in crashing his businesses into the ground.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I think he lost eleven figures inside of a year.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
wait no. A hundred billion is TWELVE figures. Woof!
DIY-HP-LED
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Skunked by the Muskrat!
DIY-HP-LED
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It's worth the shaky links for the insults they hurl at Elon, he's almost as entertaining as MTG and as dangerous, believes in as many conspiracy theories.
Fogdog
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Opinion | A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust (Published 2023)
Boring old Ford is proving to be a very modern company.
A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust
Its an essay about Teslas' fall from grace with consumers. Tesla's image of a forward thinking innovative company didn't age well after nearly a decade of overpromising, under delivering and even charging $15k for a self driving feature that didn't self drive and only promised to make it work by some unspecified time. Not to mention that the bulk of Tesla's sales are in blue states while the CEO says things like
Its also an essay about Tesla's fall from grace with the workforce. The best quote from that section was "Tesla will work you until you lose everything.”
The opinion piece ends with the line, "I just bought a Jeep, and I have no idea who the C.E.O. is there. That’s cool with me. "
DIY-HP-LED
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Tesla is being swamped by competition and innovation, every automaker on the planet has bet the farm on EVs. The amount of battery R&D going on is staggering and there are breakthroughs everyday some are even starting to make it to production or improving existing production. There will be more change in the automotive business in the next 10 years than in the past 100 and it will spawn energy storage with mass production and markets.Opinion | A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust (Published 2023)
Boring old Ford is proving to be a very modern company.www.nytimes.com
A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust
Its an essay about Teslas' fall from grace with consumers. Tesla's image of a forward thinking innovative company didn't age well after nearly a decade of overpromising, under delivering and even charging $15k for a self driving feature that didn't self drive and only promised to make it work by some unspecified time. Not to mention that the bulk of Tesla's sales are in blue states while the CEO says things like
Its also an essay about Tesla's fall from grace with the workforce. The best quote from that section was "Tesla will work you until you lose everything.”
The opinion piece ends with the line, "I just bought a Jeep, and I have no idea who the C.E.O. is there. That’s cool with me. "
DIY-HP-LED
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Being a rich deadbeat is another sign of "Donaldism", an asshole being led around by their ego, hubris and ultimately self-destructive. I wouldn't be surprised if he died with his followers in Jonestown on Mars, but I doubt he would be first to go. Then again, I never dreamed Trump would actually lead his mob of fools in an attack on the capitol like Napoleon FFS. He had a wrestling match after his speech in the limo with the SS to stop him from joining the riot, go figure...
DIY-HP-LED
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Another sign of "Donaldism" in Elon, no heart, no wisdom.
Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off
New York
CNN
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Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, an Iceland-based Twitter senior director, tweeted at Musk that access to his computer had been cut off nine days earlier, when Twitter reportedly laid off some 200 employees. But, Thorleifsson said in his tweet, “your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not.”
Musk responded in a tweet asking, “what work have you been doing?” When Thorleifsson provided a list of his tasks in response, Musk appeared to cast doubt on several points. “Pics or it didn’t happen,” he tweeted. In a separate tweet, the billionaire said Thorleifsson “did no actual work, claimed as an excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing.”
Thorleifsson clarified in a tweet that he has muscular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that he says put him in a wheelchair more than 20 years ago. Thorleifsson, who founded a digital branding company acquired by Twitter in 2021, has been recognized by the United Nations and the president of Iceland for spearheading a charitable effort to build 1,000 wheelchair ramps around Reykjavik to increase the city’s accessibility.
“I’m not able to do manual work (which in this case means typing or using a mouse) for extended periods of time without my hands starting to cramp,” he said. “I can however write for an hour or two at a time. This wasn’t a problem in Twitter 1.0 since I was a senior director and my job was mostly to help teams move forward, give them strategic and tactical advice.”
Thorleifsson did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. Twitter, which has cut much of its public relations department, also did not respond.
It’s not the first time Musk, one of the richest men in the world, has publicly mocked employees at Twitter, the company he bought for $44 billion last year. He has feuded on the platform with former Twitter executives, fired employees who criticized him and in one case publicly called out a former employee’s tweets about him saying that they were the result of “a tragic case of adult onset Tourette’s.”
The jarring spectacle of a company’s owner publicly mocking an employee highlights the unique corporate circus that Twitter workers have experienced over the past year. Musk threatened to bail on the deal, then completed the acquisition only to proceed with multiple rounds of layoffs. Hundreds of former Twitter employees are now taking legal action against the company, alleging broken severance promises and, in some cases, discrimination, including against disabled employees.
Meanwhile, the platform appears to be struggling to stay online. On Monday, Twitter experienced one of its biggest outages since Musk’s takeover, with many users entirely unable to access the site, and others facing issues clicking links or viewing photos, for about an hour. It was the third major technical glitch Twitter has faced in less than a month, as Musk has slashed staff from around 7,500 workers before his takeover to fewer than 2,000 and engaged in a series of other cost-cutting efforts.
Following the exchange with Musk, Thorleifsson said in a tweet that Twitter’s HR head had confirmed he is no longer employed at the company.
“Which is totally ok and it happens all the time … They usually tell people about it but that’s seemingly the optional part at Twitter now,” he said. “Next up though is finding out if Twitter will pay me what they owe me per my contract.”
Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off
New York
CNN
—
Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, an Iceland-based Twitter senior director, tweeted at Musk that access to his computer had been cut off nine days earlier, when Twitter reportedly laid off some 200 employees. But, Thorleifsson said in his tweet, “your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not.”
Musk responded in a tweet asking, “what work have you been doing?” When Thorleifsson provided a list of his tasks in response, Musk appeared to cast doubt on several points. “Pics or it didn’t happen,” he tweeted. In a separate tweet, the billionaire said Thorleifsson “did no actual work, claimed as an excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing.”
Thorleifsson clarified in a tweet that he has muscular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that he says put him in a wheelchair more than 20 years ago. Thorleifsson, who founded a digital branding company acquired by Twitter in 2021, has been recognized by the United Nations and the president of Iceland for spearheading a charitable effort to build 1,000 wheelchair ramps around Reykjavik to increase the city’s accessibility.
“I’m not able to do manual work (which in this case means typing or using a mouse) for extended periods of time without my hands starting to cramp,” he said. “I can however write for an hour or two at a time. This wasn’t a problem in Twitter 1.0 since I was a senior director and my job was mostly to help teams move forward, give them strategic and tactical advice.”
Thorleifsson did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. Twitter, which has cut much of its public relations department, also did not respond.
It’s not the first time Musk, one of the richest men in the world, has publicly mocked employees at Twitter, the company he bought for $44 billion last year. He has feuded on the platform with former Twitter executives, fired employees who criticized him and in one case publicly called out a former employee’s tweets about him saying that they were the result of “a tragic case of adult onset Tourette’s.”
The jarring spectacle of a company’s owner publicly mocking an employee highlights the unique corporate circus that Twitter workers have experienced over the past year. Musk threatened to bail on the deal, then completed the acquisition only to proceed with multiple rounds of layoffs. Hundreds of former Twitter employees are now taking legal action against the company, alleging broken severance promises and, in some cases, discrimination, including against disabled employees.
Meanwhile, the platform appears to be struggling to stay online. On Monday, Twitter experienced one of its biggest outages since Musk’s takeover, with many users entirely unable to access the site, and others facing issues clicking links or viewing photos, for about an hour. It was the third major technical glitch Twitter has faced in less than a month, as Musk has slashed staff from around 7,500 workers before his takeover to fewer than 2,000 and engaged in a series of other cost-cutting efforts.
Following the exchange with Musk, Thorleifsson said in a tweet that Twitter’s HR head had confirmed he is no longer employed at the company.
“Which is totally ok and it happens all the time … They usually tell people about it but that’s seemingly the optional part at Twitter now,” he said. “Next up though is finding out if Twitter will pay me what they owe me per my contract.”
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
DIY-HP-LED
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I would prefer a more literal and direct representation...
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I like the understated approach.
Roger A. Shrubber
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Will he be able to hire more staff? who is going to want to work for an asshole like muck? what happens if he can't comply? does twitter get shut down in the EU? 
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-tells-elon-musk-hire-more-staff-moderate-twitter-ft-2023-03-07/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-tells-elon-musk-hire-more-staff-moderate-twitter-ft-2023-03-07/