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Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. Occasionally says and does great things but more o

Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. Occasionally says and does great things but more often than not is tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand. You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. The uncertainty and stress nonsense like that must cause for employees and potential legal implications for the company are not worth it.

coolso 5y ago
> tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand Oh, I think Twitter has done enough to itself to damage the company/brand as it is. Most people in the real world think the site is an absolute joke. Musk can only bring good things to Twitter, and as a result, the world. The era of corporate censorship (in favor of their favorite side, of course) may finally be coming to an end!
cloutchaser 5y ago
Or he can buy more than 14.9% now, get more of his own people on the board, and fire everyone that way. The uncertainty isn’t going away for the wonderful balanced people running Twitter /s
KennyBlanken 5y ago
> Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. The past few weeks? The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight. Then there was a the "fuck California health code, I'm going to keep cranking out cars, who cares if my employees get sick and spread covid" thing a year or so ago. Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at. Etc.
- mlindner 5y ago
  > The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight. Every time people re-tell this story, it gets more and more ridiculous. He wasn't a "rescue operations leader", he was a hobby diver living in the area and acted was an advisor to the actual rescue team. What got Musk (and others) riled up was not him saying that it wouldn't work, it was him telling Musk "to shove the submarine up his ass" (exact wording "stick his submarine where it hurts") live on a CNN TV interview. > Then there was a the "fuck California health code, I'm going to keep cranking out cars, who cares if my employees get sick and spread covid" thing a year or so ago. Except he didn't in fact say anything like that. California had already allowed the factory to open. It was the local alameda county officials preventing him from opening the factory (and other nearby counties had already opened) because they were being slow at approving Tesla's paperwork for how they would operate under Covid. Also other automotive factories elsewhere in the country with even worse Covid were already in operation. > Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at. And that didn't happen.
  - philistine 5y ago
    So it’s ok to call people pedophiles if they’re consulting?
- nebula8804 5y ago
  >Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at. Can you elaborate on this? People are quitting/getting fired all the time at Tesla yet they seem to be firing on all cylinders.
drusepth 5y ago
>You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. Other companies have successfully introduced homeless shelters into their office space; it's not necessarily a wild or bad idea. There's probably an important distinction to make here in that the trolly poll was (likely) disingenuous, which is the real issue wrt representing the company, rather than the contents itself.
- basisword 5y ago
  I think that even if the poll is genuine the issue is polling users of the product before you have spoken to your employees.
  - 0xy 5y ago
    How does this differ from UX research or polling, where companies regularly show users unreleased products or poll for ideas they have? What do the employees have to do with it? The company serves the shareholders, not employees.
    - philistine 5y ago
      All of what you’re describing is not done as political theatre by a board member with no direct power to enact what he’s polling. He’s basically doing the same thing as a terrible poll on a newspaper website and we’re supposed to be respectful of that?
nebula8804 5y ago
>You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. This was a response to Bezos's tweet. Thanks to that tweet I learned that Amazon is already doing this in Seattle.
- HWR_14 5y ago
  Bezos's tweet was a response to Elon's poll, not vice versa. Elon's response to Bezos's tweet was something like "Good idea"
0xy 5y ago
Considering Twitter exists to serve the interest of its shareholders, and Elon is its largest shareholder, surely his ideas for usage of their assets should be relevant to the company. Companies are beholden to shareholders, by law. Such is the way of public companies without founder super voting shares.
whywhywhywhy 5y ago
> He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. I mean they are good friends and cite each other as inspiration.

coolso 5y ago

> tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand Oh, I think Twitter has done enough to itself to damage the company/brand as it is. Most people in the real world think the site is an absolute joke. Musk can only bring good things to Twitter, and as a result, the world. The era of corporate censorship (in favor of their favorite side, of course) may finally be coming to an end!

cloutchaser 5y ago

Or he can buy more than 14.9% now, get more of his own people on the board, and fire everyone that way. The uncertainty isn’t going away for the wonderful balanced people running Twitter /s

KennyBlanken 5y ago

> Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. The past few weeks? The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight. Then there was a the "fuck California health code, I'm going to keep cranking out cars, who cares if my employees get sick and spread covid" thing a year or so ago. Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at. Etc.

mlindner 5y ago
> The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight. Every time people re-tell this story, it gets more and more ridiculous. He wasn't a "rescue operations leader", he was a hobby diver living in the area and acted was an advisor to the actual rescue team. What got Musk (and others) riled up was not him saying that it wouldn't work, it was him telling Musk "to shove the submarine up his ass" (exact wording "stick his submarine where it hurts") live on a CNN TV interview. > Then there was a the "fuck California health code, I'm going to keep cranking out cars, who cares if my employees get sick and spread covid" thing a year or so ago. Except he didn't in fact say anything like that. California had already allowed the factory to open. It was the local alameda county officials preventing him from opening the factory (and other nearby counties had already opened) because they were being slow at approving Tesla's paperwork for how they would operate under Covid. Also other automotive factories elsewhere in the country with even worse Covid were already in operation. > Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at. And that didn't happen.
- philistine 5y ago
  So it’s ok to call people pedophiles if they’re consulting?
nebula8804 5y ago
>Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at. Can you elaborate on this? People are quitting/getting fired all the time at Tesla yet they seem to be firing on all cylinders.

drusepth 5y ago

>You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. Other companies have successfully introduced homeless shelters into their office space; it's not necessarily a wild or bad idea. There's probably an important distinction to make here in that the trolly poll was (likely) disingenuous, which is the real issue wrt representing the company, rather than the contents itself.

basisword 5y ago
I think that even if the poll is genuine the issue is polling users of the product before you have spoken to your employees.
- 0xy 5y ago
  How does this differ from UX research or polling, where companies regularly show users unreleased products or poll for ideas they have? What do the employees have to do with it? The company serves the shareholders, not employees.
  - philistine 5y ago
    All of what you’re describing is not done as political theatre by a board member with no direct power to enact what he’s polling. He’s basically doing the same thing as a terrible poll on a newspaper website and we’re supposed to be respectful of that?

nebula8804 5y ago

>You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. This was a response to Bezos's tweet. Thanks to that tweet I learned that Amazon is already doing this in Seattle.

HWR_14 5y ago
Bezos's tweet was a response to Elon's poll, not vice versa. Elon's response to Bezos's tweet was something like "Good idea"

0xy 5y ago

Considering Twitter exists to serve the interest of its shareholders, and Elon is its largest shareholder, surely his ideas for usage of their assets should be relevant to the company. Companies are beholden to shareholders, by law. Such is the way of public companies without founder super voting shares.

whywhywhywhy 5y ago

> He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. I mean they are good friends and cite each other as inspiration.