Elon Musk says 'I have too much work on my plate'

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Source: Reuters

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he was working "at the absolute most amount...from morning til night, seven days a week" when asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O).

"I have too much work on my plate that is for sure," Musk said by videolink to a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

Musk is chief executive of both companies and also runs rocket firm SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company. Wearing a batik shirt sent by the organizers, he appeared on screen lit by candles, explaining that he was speaking from a place that had just lost power.

Tesla investors worry that Musk, a self-confessed "nanomanager" who has been personally involved in working-level decisions from car styling to supply chain issues, is distracted at a critical time for the world’s largest electric vehicle maker.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-i-have-too-much-work-my-plate-2022-11-14/

[Kennah]

1. Work smarter, not harder

[Midnight Writer]

20. Really. He took over an operational organization. Back off and let it operate.

[Kennah]

21. But, but, but, he's a billionaire

[EX500rider]

23. Except for the whole losing money thing

Twitter:

2021 operating loss of $493 million

2020 net loss of $1.14 billion

[marble falls]

2. Retire.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. awww. poor baby. you knew the job was dangerous when you took it fred.

[Otto_Harper]

4. A narcissistic sociopath is inherently incapable of delegating work to trusted subordinates

Experienced this much of my working life. If someone, 50 years ago had sat me down and taught me that there are humans and there are narcs, I might have done much better for myself in life.

[CentralMass]

6. +1

[2naSalit]

5. Poor baby!

[liberalmuse]

7. This guy might be insane.

Nobody asked him to buy a social media platform and lay off/fire his employees. I can't stand this a-hole and now we get to hear his every complaint whenever we are online.

[TygrBright]

8. awww.... poor Eloon. Try retirement, dudebro. n/t

[getagrip_already]

9. delete your account.... ;)

And hire a competent ceo, then leave them alone.

[Coventina]

10. I'm rolling my eyes so hard, I might get permanent damage.....

[Justice matters.]

11. Stroke it then.

[dchill]

12. Sell Twitter. The proceeds and a small personal loan...

...should buy you a used mobile home and a big-screen. Relax.

[Beastly Boy]

13. No shit!

When you keep fucking up and taking it out on the people you are supposed to delegate to, work tends to keep piling up, doesn't it?

[sakabatou]

14. Gee, if only you didn't fire the guys who could help you

[Ford_Prefect]

15. A picture of a man headed for a Howard Hughes sized meltdown.

[catbyte]

16. Oh, give me a goddamned break...

[Grokenstein]

17. Knobs love that sort of self-serving baloney.

Years ago my company went through a series of bad CEOs, and the really shitty ones had two things in common: (1) they squatted in place doing nothing until they were paid even more to leave, and (2) they sent forth ass-kissers to spread the lie that they were working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.

By the third time I heard that crap about a separate person, I was asking (1) what were they accomplishing to show for all that "hard work," and (2) who in their right mind would want to put up with such conditions?

[kysrsoze]

18. Maybe if he stopped playing with his phone 24x7?

Jackass.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Wow, how does he find the time to pump out kids for someone else to raise?

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Nobody asked you to buy Twitter, dofus

You should have dedicated all your time and your company to simply putting out the best, and most affordable, electric vehicles, batteries, etc...

But because of some butt hurt from a tweet, or banning of an abusive individual that you liked, you made an emotional knee jerk offer that was too good for Twitter to reject.......just because you could.

[IronLionZion]

24. He'll fix it by firing more employees

good luck with that.

Maybe a better competitor will come along soon

[Martin68]

25. Now where did I put my tiny violin?