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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you ever noticed the manipulative / abusive / gaslighting language Elon Musk uses?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-demands-sit-down-with-engineers-amid-new-twitter-chaosSince then, the once-inescapable social media platform has been jerked around under Elon Musks erratic tutelage as scores of crucial staffersand advertisers, which account for some 90 percent of Twitters revenuehead for the exits.
Through it all, Musk has projected confidence.
The best people are staying, so Im not super worried, he tweeted Thursday night, while simultaneously informing employees the company would be shuttering its offices and deactivating workers access cards until next week.
By Friday morning, Musk finally seemed to be worried.
Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today, he pleaded in an email obtained by Platformer, The New York Times, and others. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months.
Step 1: Belittle the other person: "Anyone who can actually write software"
Step 2: Force them to do you a favor: "please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today"
Step 3: Make them them feel that they will owe you a favor after doing what you forced them to do: "a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months"
"You are nobody. Prove your worth to me."
If possible, I would encourage you to fly to SF to present in person, Musk reportedly wrote, adding, [O]nly those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused.
He said there would be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack, Reuters reported.
Step 1: Belittle the other person: "If possible, I would encourage you to fly to SF"
Step 2: Force them to do you a favor: "short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack"
Step 3: Make them them feel that they will owe you a favor after doing what you forced them to do: "only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused"
"If you actually cared, you would have come in person. Now explain this to me, and don't forget that i'm being gracious here by allowing you to call in."
Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore, Musk wrote in a memo sent early Wednesday.
This will mean working long hours at high intensity, Musk said in the missive, which was first reported by The Washington Post. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.
Step 1: Belittle the other person: "we will need to be extremely hardcore"
Step 2: Force them to do you a favor: "This will mean working long hours at high intensity"
Step 3: Make them them feel that they will owe you a favor after doing what you forced them to do: "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade"
"You don't work hard enough. If you work harder than ever before, then I might consider judging you as doing the bare minimum."
yankee87
(2,175 posts)Elon, son of privilege, is finding out people are necessary to run Twitter. At first I laughed, now Im sad. Twitter is used to coordinate and inform resistance movements around the world. Hopefully someone with knowledge of how to run the company will buy it for pennies on the dollar and turn it around.
tikka
(762 posts)Good old John Galt (Musk) can't do it by himself.
ms liberty
(8,593 posts)What a jerk.
JT45242
(2,286 posts)To prevent resistance to bone saw, Qatar. And all the other authoritarian countries.
Never. Ever forget that the Saudi royal family is really an enemy and not an ally.
They no longer side with us against the Russians. So it isn't even the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
carpetbagger
(4,391 posts)He's not being very effective at gaslighting and manipulating lol. I don't think he's ever had to manage in an environment where he had to view it as a two-way street. Sucks to be him.
NNadir
(33,541 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,033 posts)The Red Queen:
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" [1]
Joinfortmill
(14,449 posts)He's certifiable.
KarenS
(4,085 posts)2naSalit
(86,767 posts)Want it gone so the loon is willing to oblige with some monetary help. For exactly the reason you mention. Since the Arab Spring leaders took note that the twit machine was their nemesis, you can't hve the serfs communicating and organizing on their phones!
It took a while to find someone to take it down... enter the muskratfucker.
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)He tried to wiggle out of the deal for months.
Perhaps this is his version of a temper tantrum.
samnsara
(17,634 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)he sure is dumb. You'd think someone who's shelling out $44 billion for something would do some research beforehand about his acquisitions tech stack. 🤔
But who am I to question the methods of the smartest man on earth, right?
Maeve
(42,287 posts)Such as "only the brightest people are doing the REAL work" or "if you don't threaten them, folks won't give you their best" and "anything being done by a large group can actually be done by a few dedicated workers (at much less pay)".
It's almost like he believes anyone who isn't already rich is either lazy or stupid...("Drop everything and fly in to meet with me and I MIGHT let you keep your job" WTAF??)
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)for decades, especially starting in the Reagan era 80s? If you weren't a millionaire by age 25 you were a LOSER.
GopherGal
(2,009 posts)I believe I've read somewhere that the external motivations (threats/rewards) useful to motivate performance on simple tasks tend to be counterproductive when trying to motivate performance in complex problem solving. If so, it's possible that the bullying management style may work in some environments, but fail in others.
yardwork
(61,700 posts)dalton99a
(81,569 posts)Orrex
(63,220 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,022 posts)while his bored, hot girlfriend sits on the couch.
I really don't think he gets or would ever get the technical reports he's demanding.
He has no respect for workers.
Ultimately, US tax payers will have paid the 44 billion dollars it took to wreck Twitter. Elon will write it off.
dalton99a
(81,569 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
Or is he expecting people to front the flight and most probably a hotel booking out of their own expenses?
Or will he do a Trump/Romney and have them fly out on a Corporate Card and then revoke it without notice?
Leaving them stranded in SF and forced to spend their own money to get home.
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Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)Their energies might create an event horizon that would destroy them both!
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)tinrobot
(10,914 posts)Musk may be soon to follow.
Leith
(7,813 posts)"Nobody wants to work any more!"