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Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

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Re: Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

#81

Today, no way. Maybe 2 decades ago when I was a teenager and valued money way more. But regardless of his business outcomes, I'm not going to ever work for a manchild throwing public tantrums, who can't be criticised for valid reasons. His decision making process of throwing stuff and seeing what sticks is also something I don't want to deal with every day at work. Life's too short to be a dictator's puppet.

Exact;y. I used to think that I'd go out of my way to jump at an opportunity to work for Elon Musk, and I've made many posts defending/promoting his ventures & skills.

But after what I've seen in the three weeks, and especially in the last two days, no forking way.

First, that he so obviously missed the issue with ID verification of important accounts, AFTER having worked in payments where you MUST find and block scammers & criminals, showed that he's just happy to waste everyone's time and make a mess based only on his own blustering ignorance.

Second, seeing his blatantly ignorant tweets about "1000 RPCs" slowing down rendering a Twitter home page, and how the actual number turns out to be "Zero", the emperor's cloths are truly gone. The now-fired employee was absolutely correct that Musk should have asked about it in the internal Slack or email channels, not in public.

Rather than the astute technologist, it looks like the curtain has dropped and he's just another blustering, manipulative, and abusive fool that got lucky at the beginning and had a large pile of funds to play with. I will grant that he is 1) exceptionally determined, 2) willing to take risks, and 3) does have some clarity on removing traditional bureaucratic obstacles. But I'd not want to be associated with him; we can learn that stuff from afar without the angst & abuse.

Re: Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

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post #35

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Nobody is talking about his politics. They are talking about his management style.

I mean his politics are junk also. Its a big turn-off

I bet your politics are junk too. Why do I need to care about your 2 cents about this or that "issue" if we are writing code?

I am not interested in your inner world or opinions. We aren't friends. We are coworkers. I have a life outside the job for that.

Re: Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

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I'd work for Elon 10 years ago when he was focused on things like making life multi planetary and advancing the electrification of transport. If I didn't have a family I'd work for SpaceX 10 years ago for 1/2 my current pay and pull 80 hour weeks. Elon today seems to be focusing most of his energy on political concerns that are frankly beneath him and very very stupid. Someone with his means and skills should not car…

Elon is one of those guys who is incidentally doing good for the human race but i suspect the motive is mostly for personal glory.

Re: Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

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> You better be standing on solid ground through because the man is smart. You act as if this makes him some untouchable gods. Recent events should have made it very clear that “smart” people can act like bigger idiots than your average idiot.

Recent HN threads have also made this clear to me.

Harsh but fair.

Re: Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

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Pretty sure it's not his politics that are the problem, but his chaotic management style.

Well go write Cobol at a bank. Or play office politics and write another pointless chat app that gets canceled. What is wrong with a bit of chaos from time to time? I thought this was hacker news, I thought you guys like startups..

Hahaha "startup" doesn't mean "CEO who publicly insults his own company and employees and pretends he knows better than them because he owns a different company." This is not "startup chaos", this is "narcissistic, toxic CEO" chaos. Elon's behavior is absolutely unacceptable coming from a leader. Source: I work at a demanding startup with a respectable CEO.

Re: Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

#90

Today, no way. Maybe 2 decades ago when I was a teenager and valued money way more. But regardless of his business outcomes, I'm not going to ever work for a manchild throwing public tantrums, who can't be criticised for valid reasons. His decision making process of throwing stuff and seeing what sticks is also something I don't want to deal with every day at work. Life's too short to be a dictator's puppet.

I value money a lot more than I did two decades ago.

Two decades ago I was a young, “fight the system”, James Dean want-to-be.

Now I have a family, mortgage, and the kids need braces.

And my water heater is making weird sounds.

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