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My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence than what was presented to him ?

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post #15

My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence than what was presented to him ?

Then you have the wrong impression of a narcissist.

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the UX is so messed up you have to put in significant effort to understand wtf any of this meant. Luckily, someone pieced together the actual conversation in 4 screenshots in the thread there. What a terrible app!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awaiting the lawsuit against him because of the obvious constructive dismissal going on

On what grounds? Most of US is at will employment, so the worst that he's subject to is something like california's WARN act which requires 60 days notice. However, AFAIK the employees are still receiving a paycheck, just that they have nothing to do and are locked out of the company's systems.

I just want to say that this attitude towards employment will likely be part of the eventual downfall of the USA.

The reason ? It's too risky to tell your boss the truth so when things are going bad so it's easier just not to say anything, I noticed my American colleagues will often not say anything to "the grand leader", they will maybe even encourage stupidity. Where as when I worked in Europe, that doesn't happen.

Not claiming those places are super powers, but I think this "shoot from the hip" American attitude towards staff will be it's undoing.

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post #15

My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence than what was presented to him ?

Nothing in his public behavior suggests he takes criticism or being shown up well. Remember the cave rescue in Thailand? A normal person would have said “this kids are safe, great!” but his ego was irreparably injured by the knowledge that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room.

My guess is that he’s going in determined to be the alpha engineer[1], assuming everyone who isn’t “his man” is stupid, possibly a saboteur, but is still going by what trivia comes up in response to questions. Something like “when you load the app we do a GraphQL query which makes hundreds of requests to our microservices” was understood as “the client makes all of those requests one by one” and since he doesn’t respect his employees he doesn’t pause to ask whether they really wouldn’t have noticed a blindingly obvious problem like that.

1. No, he definitely doesn’t want to know that’s not even a real thing with wolves.

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post #15

My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence than what was presented to him ?

"no bs persona"? I guess you mean his style is "no BS" rather than the substance of what he says.

It's funny I see this applied to people who constantly BS as long as they are not nice to people or PC.

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