Rules for thee not for me.
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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The only thing worse than having to go to the office to watch a video of Elon, is watching him in person
Yeah then you might get a whiff of his musk
I initially misread "person" as "prison" and thought wait that can't be right
This just in, Elon bans getting high at work
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What a little piss baby
My boss recently did the same because he “accidentally” schedule his vacation at the same time of our yearly goal setting meeting. Lol.
But fuck me for buying plane tickets for my vacation 6 months in advance when they were on sale and I didn’t have the days approved off. $300 wasted and a giant fuck you a year later. 👍
What a punk ass bitch.
That's some real "I'm a big dick" energy
It's basically the story for most VP+ level execs at big tech companies. All parroting RTO rules, while on video in their home office, or from an office that isn't assigned to them...
I feel for those poor bastards whose work visas are tired to that site.
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.
I would agree, but seeing as tho Musk's entire fortune is built on his image, anything that can damage it is good for humanity, and let's be honest he is paying for the shit ton of "Musk the myth, the Legend" articles, so why not boost the ones calling him out?
I agree with you, but Musk operates on the “any publicity is good publicity” strategy. He doesn't care if it's good news or bad news.
Also we've had heaps of bad news about Musk and yet the cycle continues even after he has been called out countless times. In reality, articles like this that wouldn't even make the news for another company have one effect - they keep Musk and his businesses in the 24 hour news cycle.
considering how much effort Musk puts into trying to get rid of/bury bad press, I would have to disagree with you
I'm sure Xwitter pays well but I am surprised that the employees stick around due to all Musk has done to destroy the company.
Yeah. There's some speculation that most of those who stayed are probably stuck due to life circumstances like visa sponsorship.
Edit: I imagine they're not staying for the stock options, at this point, in any case!
There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground.
I disagree. There is much about it that is very surprising, which is why we're still talking about it. Maybe he meant "There's very little that people should be surprised about, because this shit has been going on for a year now, and it just keeps getting dumber and dumber."
which Yaccarino tweeted about on Wednesday.
Are we still calling it that? Wouldn't she have Xed it?
Xcreted
It's crazy that they had a brand so strong that the name of the company is the word for the thing that the company does and this clown decided to change it.
It would be like Kleenex or Band-Aid changing their name.
You Xit it.
Popped that xitter
How are employees not sabotaging this shit from the inside?
Trying to out-sabotage Elon? It's quite the challenge.
The comedy heist movie almost writes itself.
"We created a backdoor into the system, but now we're just waiting because it crashed and it's down right now."
"We smuggled an EMP into the data center, but it didn't do anything because it turns out everything critical is actually running on someone's laptop in the accounting team."
Oh you wanted to crash data center 2? Nah, *Elon went there and ripped the servers out himself on a cost cutting trip.
*Elon actually did this.
As I understand, a significant amount of the employees who stayed are ones who depend on steady work to stay in the country. For these folks, sabotaging their company could ultimately end in being deported. IDK about you but I don't think that's the hill I'd die on.
if that big dumb annoying "x" at the top of the building is there illegally
HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING would the law actually prosecute anyone for trying to remove it without their consent?
i mean... it'd be tricky to get rid of that thing without employing dangerous tools. it's not like anyone would condone dropping thermite or munitions on it from a drone... and you probably can't fit power tools on a drone or exert enough force with a drone for those power tools to be effective.
but still, just as a thought experiment, how might one go about removing an unsanctioned structural eyesore from a building, as a "public service"?
Some BBs could probably smash enough of the lights in it from a distance?
Or maybe paintballs to make it green
ooh i like that
i bet a drone could carry an airbrush actually
fly right up and dye the bulbs trans flag colors X3
I can't imagine that Yaccarino will ever have a high-positioned post after this. She championed a shitshow. She didn't get out when it was obvious that it was tanking. No one will trust her again.
Then again, these types tend to bounce around from plane crash to plane crash…
Ah, the good ol' "rules for me but not for thee"