Posted on 12/07/2020 4:34:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux
There’s hard core, and then there’s Elon Musk.
Musk called an all-hands meeting at his SpaceX spacecraft factory in Boca Chica Beach, Texas — at 1 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23, according to a story published Thursday by Ars Technica.
The billionaire SpaceX and Tesla boss is known for setting outlandish goals (and sometimes missing them). And in the wee hours of the Sunday, he wanted to know from his team why his factory wasn’t running 24-7 to build the Starship rocket system (which will eventually take crew and cargo to Mars).
Musk’s engineering team explained they needed more people to take shifts. So over the next 48 hours, SpaceX hired 252 workers, doubling the workforce at that factory, Ars Technica reported.
The vignette is telling about what it is like to work for Musk.
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“Elon has this incredible optimism, where he will pierce through these imagined constraints and show you that really a lot more is possible that you really think is today,” Hodak said in 2019 at the California Academy of Sciences.
In a Tweet recruiting talent to work for his companies, Musk himself acknowledged he can be hard to work for.
“There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week,” Musk tweeted.
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If you want to run with the big dogs get out from under the trailerhouse.
Lead, Follow or get OUTT?A THE WAY !!!
and
Coondogphilosphy: If it smells bad Roll in IT. If it Freaks Out, EAT IT !!!
I admire Elon Musk so much!
I did see an AD that SpaceX was looking to Hire Seamsters to make Space Suits.
BetsyRossLLC——we’ve come a long way, baby!
He’s a flake who thinks the earth will become uninhabitable and mankind will have to live on Mars.... after it is terraformed.....
Q: Did the team know that Musk wanted them running 24/7? If so, and they obviously knew they weren’t, why didn’t someone call him and say that they needed more personnel to get it done?
Why did he need to call a meeting at any hour of the day for something that should have been dealt with far earlier and possibly just with a phone call?
He’ll be twice as rich as Bezos in 10 years because of his Starlink project alone . . . with an unrelenting stream of income
Easy to hire that fast with the scale of bucks this all-time greatest government grifter.
IMO there is no forgiving him his 5G satellites. The electric car and driverless truck scams are no great contributions either.
He probably wasn’t high enough in drugs earlier.
You’re right. It seems like a typical staffing issue to be handled in a routine meeting with H.R. Doesn’t need to be a BFD.
On the surface, no problems with this move personally, especially if the place was supposed to be a 24/7 operation already. I won’t go so far as to say I admire the guy though, just that it’s good to see there are still people in the world that will work for what they want.
Agreed. If it works, it’s going to change the world, and he’s going to make a mint.
I was reading a bio on Steve Jobs, and Musk reminds me strongly of him.
On the “Reality Distortion Field” that surrounded Steve Jobs:
“The first and I think foremost way is that it was all about his belief that the impossible was possible. So when you worked with Steve Jobs everything that seemed impossible he made possible or he made you make it possible which is even more important and that became part of the reality distortion field. So that was the really the biggest part of that, was making the impossible possible.”
I’ve worked closely with a number of self-made billionaires over my career. One of which has won 18 Indianapolis 500 mile races. They all have very similar perspectives about work. 7 days/week, 16 or more hours per day. They become even more single focused when there is a big deal going down, sometimes going days without sleep.
They pay a huge personal price for their success. Many are divorced and have tragic personal issues. Family time is nothing more than an entry on their calendars. Work/business is why they live. Family is generally just a distraction for them.
Dear mew
The answer is the reason you’re not running SpaceX and Tesla - he is!
Lurking’
“You’re right. It seems like a typical staffing issue to be handled in a routine meeting with H.R. Doesn’t need to be a BFD.”
He was told, probably several times. And he ignored it because he didn’t think it would happen. So when it did, instead of making a phone call to Work Force Management to get more resourced scheduled, he chose to berate his team. Typical dick manager. I had one of those and swore when I became a manager I would never behave like this.
The sats are not 5G, but you are obviously skilled in neither rocket surgery, nor brain science. A halfway nutty libertarian shutting AT&T and Comcast out of the home broadband market is A-OK with me. 5G/6G freq and even higher terrahertz freq will be for inter-satilite linking with massive data pipes between them. Terrestrial fibre will be a thing of the past. Intercontinental link speed/capacity will go up by orders of magnitude and latency will actually drop.
5G - 30GHZ - 90GHz relatively high power signals
Starlink - 10.7 – 12.7 GHz signals with very low power down (exposure) and high power highly directional cones from the ground pointed up (non-exposure)
RF exposure:
Starlink - negligible
5G - high
“It’s kinda fun doing the impossible”.
-Walt Disney, 1964.
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