Posted on 11/21/2022 3:02:16 PM PST by SmokingJoe
Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.
Elon Musk was sleeping at the office. He dismissed employees and executives at will. And he lamented his company was on the verge of bankruptcy.
That was back in 2018 and the company was Tesla, as Mr. Musk’s electric automaker struggled to build its mass-market vehicle, the Model 3.
“It was excruciating,” he told The New York Times at the time. “There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn’t go outside.”
The billionaire’s experience with what he called Tesla’s “production hell” has become a blueprint for the crisis he has created at Twitter, which he bought for $44 billion last month. Over the years, Mr. Musk has developed a playbook for managing his companies — including Tesla and the rocket manufacturer SpaceX — through periods of pain, employing shock treatment and alarmism and pushing his workers and himself to put aside their families and friends to spend all their energy on his mission.
At Twitter, Mr. Musk has used many of those same tactics to upend the social media company in just a few weeks.
Since late last month, the 51-year-old has laid off 50 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 employees and accepted the resignations of 1,200 or more. On Monday, he began another round of layoffs, two people said. He tweeted that he was sleeping at Twitter’s offices in San Francisco. And he has applied mission-driven language, telling Twitter’s workers that the company could go bankrupt if he wasn’t able to turn it around. Those who want to work on “Twitter 2.0” must commit to his “hard core” vision in writing, he has said.
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Well, he’s made Twitter almost fun again.
Rare candor from the New York Slimes. What Musk is doing is a wonder to behold.
Musk built Tesla & SpaceX. From the ground up. They both have his influence in their DNA.
Not so with Twitter.
Musk didn't build it, he bought it. The DNA of Twitter is one of entitlement.
That's what Musk is up against. Can he change it? Sure. Will it be painful? Yup.
BTW: the Twitter account I opened when Musk bought it was perma-banned today for calling Kamala Harris a whore who slept her way to the top. That statement of fact was deemed "harmful hate speech" by Twitter "censors" and my account NewbombTurk was permabanned.
Good times! LOL!
no different than george eastman and kodak. you punched a time clock...and that’s the way it was..
i think he wants free speech...but also expects you to be nice...works for me...
“You have the right to free speech
As long as
You’re not dumb enough to actually try it”
The Clash, “Know Your Rights”
I was being nice, I told the truth. Kamala Harris is a whore who slept her way to the top. She’s a disgrace to any right-thinking woman, sadly there are very few of them left anymore.
fringe benefits are
red bull on tap
and bowls of no doz
Exactly. Keep the facts. Forget the name calling. Might have gotten banned anyway
If the NYT has their panties in a wad, I’m happy.
“𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘻𝘦.” -Voltaire
I’m surprised that there have not been any comparisons to “Neutron” Jack Welch at General Electric who streamlined the company in the 80s.
One of the few times I agree with him.
Right= made them successful.
The problem with your post was your inaccuracy.
She blew her way to the top. The top of her head is a better view and one does not have to hear her talking/cackling
Musk utilizes the “Golden Rule” .... he who has the gold makes the rules.
The Twit snowflakes/wokesters, don’t understand that rule and they won’t be able to function in an environment where that is the rule. The 8 hour coffee breaks/endless meetings that made up their “work” day are gone.
you don’t call anyone a whore...what’s wrong with you...you want to say it to yourself...fine...
That was but one of the things she did with Willie Brown ...
She is a whore. It's fact.
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