Elon Musk Mystified That Tesla Employees Don't Want to Spend All Day with Him

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

AUSTIN (The Borowitz Report)—One day after demanding that Tesla employees who work from home return to the office, Elon Musk said that he was “totally mystified and baffled” that anyone would not want to spend all day with him.

“Here you have a group of people who have been starved of any personal contact with me for months,” he said. “I thought they would jump at the chance to get a little Elon in their lives again.”

Enumerating the benefits of spending time with him, Musk said, “For one thing, I’m incredibly charming and interesting. If you work in the office, you never know when I might drop by your desk and just start talking at you. Fifteen minutes later, you’ve basically heard a whole ted Talk. You don’t get that kind of quality content at home.”

Additionally, Musk said, “People love spending time with a disruptor like me. At home, you’re just doing what you’re doing all day with no interruptions. At the office, I might see what you’re doing, tear it all up, and tell you to start over. You can’t put a price tag on an experience like that.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/elon-musk-mystified-that-tesla-employees-dont-want-to-spend-all-day-with-him

[paulkienitz]

1. I think I finally understand Elon's trip: he sees himself as a Heinlein protagonist.

Apparently he has listed The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress as influential, and The Man Who Sold The Moon may be even more relevant.

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. Maybe he can find Amber Heard against and have some freaky Hollywood sex with her.

That should pick up his damaged ego.

[Ziggysmom]

3. I'd rather have diarrhea on vacation than spend a day with that egotist!

[BigmanPigman]

4. Every word out of that freak, Libertarian is worthless.

He is a ZERO, a hypocrite and a fucked up idiot! But that is just my opinion. Double fuck him in every way possible. His opinions are meaningless to anyone who is sane. He must have mental issues, therefore his opinions are null and void to me.

He is a freak extraordinaire.

[paulkienitz]

6. I have mixed feelings about Musk.

As a visionary, he is the real deal -- his innovations and disruptions are legit. I hope that someday there's a city on Mars and his ashes are enshrined there as a founder. Then I hear his latest privilege-saturated outburst against the rights of ordinary people and I want those ashes to be sent there as rapidly as possible, like before Christmas.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. Musk's talent is taking credit for the work/innovation/designs/technology that others have invented

he is not "the real deal". He is an impresario, like PT Barnum.

[paulkienitz]

8. nope

Everyone I meet seems to fall into one of two categories: either they think Musk is a brilliant innovator and therefore they deny his wrongdoing, or they think Musk is a wrongdoer and therefore they deny his innovations. Why are people so reluctant to recognize that both can be true?

I have followed Musk in more detail than I really wanted to know for quite a while, and I have a pretty strong understanding of science and technology. I think my opinion that he is legit should carry more weight than your dismissal. If you want a quick basis for comparison, look at Bezos and Branson trying to do the same as Musk and failing at it. If you want depth, listen to some of his interviews with space nerds or car nerds where he digs into very obscure minutiae of the engineering and manufacturing processes. This guy is not just a credit-taker. And his management style is completely at odds with the way all past aerospace success has been achieved... a design process where you constantly build halfassed prototypes and then break them, where you throw away your whole plan and start over when a new material comes along, where instead of making your part fit the other engineer's part you make him do his part over, is something that nobody would have even tried at large scale if he hadn't pushed for it. He hasn't just built better rockets, he's put together a better way for rockets to be designed and tested, and it's all on him.

Of course, seeing himself succeed at these things has consequently inflated his ego to the size of Mars, and filled him with a tremendous sense of entitlement -- not ordinary entitlement to wealth and privilege, but a belief that he's entitled to have everyone around him sacrifice all of their lives and energy in laboring according to his direction, like he was a pharaoh decreeing that he should have the biggest pyramid, as if working for his vision was the only purpose that employees have for being alive at all.

[ProfessorPlum]

9. I fall into neither of those categories

but he is merely a hype man with a bunch of his daddy's emerald money in his pockets. He's not an engineer or a scientist. He didn't do anything except buy the "founders rights" from the actual founders of Tesla. You can credit him with "vision" if you choose, but please do some more research on the guy. He is a marketing person.

[paulkienitz]

10. I have done the research

and also I work in engineering fields and know real engineering when I hear it.

[ProfessorPlum]

11. Cody's Showdy

The guy (Ego Musk) is a charlatan, and not a very bright one

[paulkienitz]

12. all those negative behaviors are an independent variable

[turbinetree]

5. Your grifter Musk.....a libertarian grifter...