Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K
Submitted 3 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2042876
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TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 months ago
“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 the all-staff email. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
This is so fucking cringy.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
So the opposition of chill. Like wtf is the big rush, are aliens invading and unless our social media is shoestring enough they’ll obliterate us?
Can’t believe this guy thinks he has anything meaningful to contribute to humanities future other than scaling up grind
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And his idea of The Grind^^® is snorting ketamine and offering ponies to stewardess to get them to fuck him.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
It’s the attitude of a rich and entitled loser who thinks they know what “hard work” means without ever engaging in it themselves. These morons use language like this to, in their mind, weed out the weak and lazy, but in reality it just sounds deranged and is a massive red flag to any employee with a functioning brain.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is he willing to pay for those extra hours?
Many companies promote a work culture where heroic employees are supposed do long hours for free just because good employees are passionate about their job. That just exploitation.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Surely the grand objective of, as he puts it:
build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world means it’s totally worth it for him to pay overtime and/or hire more people.
Unless, of course, he was bullshitting and being an hypocrite.
Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Sounds like by his own grading scale he is a dismal failure not worth what his title gets paid.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 months ago
How hard is the core are we talking here? Like raw dog HTML no JS hard?
Mikelius@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Stackoverflow is IP blocked, get fucked
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I mean he renamed Twitter to X. It is assumed his actions will be cringy.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Coming from the guy who demanded tens of billions in bonuses from Tesla shareholders in order to ‘stay motivated’.
dan@upvote.au 3 months ago
I was thinking “this wouldn’t be successful in the USA”, and yep, it’s in Ireland.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Imagine taking pride in this fucking gold plated cesspool.
dan@upvote.au 3 months ago
I’ve lived in the USA for 11 years, and there’s some things in the USA that I really like, but the lack of worker and consumer rights is a major issue. At least California has some consumer rights, but it’s nowhere near as strong as where I’m from (Australia).
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ireland has attracted many tech companies including Twitter, and the latter has a massive employment footprint here.
girthero@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wouldn’t mind corporate tax breaks to public companies (like ireland gives) as long as the gov’t taxes private wealth enough to fund decent social programs like Ireland.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Damn, $600k times 35 people is only $21mil. That’s pocked change for this jerk. And yet, I’ll bet he fights paying just the $600k to the one person tooth and nail like the spoiled rich fuck that he is.
dogsnest@lemmy.world 3 months ago
bstix@feddit.dk 3 months ago
It’s interesting how most of Musk’s wealth is in stock and such, when people start cashing out on it. What’s his liquid wealth?
I assume he’s been wealthy for long enough that he’s been able to cash our interest and dividends to make him a wealthy man, constantly accruing money simply by having money.
Seeing him tank on everything he touches( bringing down the value), I have to wonder if there is a limit to his liquid funds. The world’s richest poorest man or something.
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I fucking hate that so much.
“People think a thing is cool, so the person who owns the thing is cool and should get a monetary value based on a lot of people’s opinions”
And everyone is lIke “Yes this system is great! Let’s do this with more people”.
And then one day nobody could think the thing is cool anymore for…reasons (Tesla) and so that person loses money relatively proportional to how many cool points they lose in the minds of a bunch of other people.
But that’s a travesty and this person’s coolness now affects a lot of other people’s coolness to the point that it could severely fuck up the economy. So we have to keep telling this person we still think they’re cool so that shit doesn’t get really bad before we have a better plan in place to deal with it.
And then we’re like fuck that was stupid we shouldn’t do that again. And everyone agrees.
Meanwhile we’re still doing it with countless other people and things and we’ll act just as shocked pikachu face the next 30 times it happens.
It’s so fucked up and dumb.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If he tried to liquidate all of his Tesla shares on the open market over a period of time, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was less than half.
SpaceX is another story though as it’s not public and he can just do a private sale. He could probably get very close to what his shares are worth, maybe even more as it’s value keeps going up.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Also the shares will be worth more the less it is controlled by him.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
You can’t fuck his horse, he had to sell it to cover his debts. It’s someone else’s horse now.
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Is that the horse that he offered to that airline attended as payment to fuck him after he pulled out his penis in front of her on the plane? They liquidated that horse?
gilindoeslemmy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Google SBLOC and you understand where he gets all his cash
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It would still take 375000 Rooneys to deplete Musk’s wealth.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I’m really curious about the profile of who is still working there and their reasons for being there. Not speculating. Just the facts.
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 3 months ago
H1B hostages
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A lot of them are immigrants who will be deported if they lose the job. I know I’d rather live in either California or Texas than a lot of places in India.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In 2022 there were some stories of how people on work visas were unable to jump ship while others were fleeing en masse. And now after all the tech layoffs in the USA, I imagine that finding another company to sponsor their visa, has become a lot harder still. So that’s one group still working there: people who will be deported if they lose their job.
wccrawford@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have never worked there (or any other major tech company) but if I had a job there, I wouldn’t give it up until I’d found another job. Perhaps the people there aren’t going crazy at the job hunt and still just haven’t found another job they want.
It’s really easy to think “all the layoffs are over and I made it” and “job hunting is painful, I don’t want to do it today” and just coast for a long time.
I’m sure every awful thing he does spurs another effort for job hunting, but unless the job actually makes them work harder or fires them, it probably doesn’t change much for them.
Also, they get paid a lot more than I do, and sometimes it’s worth the pain to keep raking in that cash.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Most of these tech companies pay really well, although you can argue about the benefits of that when most of your money goes towards paying for a landlord’s retirement.
The boss may be a complete bell-end but most of them will never have to deal with him.
kokesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s the only reason to upvote anything musk.
xc2215x@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Glad he lost.
RedShaniNqkomota@ani.social 3 months ago
Like one dollar for me
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
lol. lmao.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I always worder if these sums include the fee of the lawyer. Would really be a much smaller payout if true.
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It shouldn’t, generally the order will be worded something like “The plaintiff has been awarded $xxxxx.xx +* legal fees*” as in whatever legal fees they accrued the defendant will have to pay in addition
But then again, what do I know IANAL lol
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I assume the attorney’s fees is one of many reasons the amount increased. Because they insisted on doing things the hard way.
vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What an amazing businessman!
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
This is the same guy who paid $44+ billion for Twitter so he could use it to have a personal conversation with a genuine retard.