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For what it's worth, deposition has been postponed while parties work out a settlement: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/elon-musk-twitter-agree-postpone-musk

For what it's worth, deposition has been postponed while parties work out a settlement: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/elon-musk-twitter-agree-postpone-musks-thursday-deposition-2022-10-06/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/elon-musk-twitter-agree-p...

belter 4y ago
It's Musk you are talking about... "Musk declined to attend in-person Twitter deposition, citing COVID exposure risk" - https://news.yahoo.com/musk-declined-attend-person-twitter-200254654.html https://news.yahoo.com/musk-declined-attend-person-twitter-2... Note the link above refers to a previous scheduled date, not the one that should start today. :-)
- outside1234 4y ago
  This from the guy that wanted his employees to work in close spaces during the height of the pandemic without be vaccinated? What a BS artist this guy is
- 4ggr0 4y ago
  > citing COVID exposure risk Is this the same Musk who wanted to keep his factories running and downplaying COVID? - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/Elon-Musk-tesla-factory-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/Elon-Musk-tesla-... Ironic that he's complaining about "fascist" COVID guidelines and wants to keep his lemmings working at all costs, but as soon as his own health is on the line, it's suddenly dangerous. (of course it's not ironic at all and just what I expect of him, but, you know...)
  - jetbalsa 4y ago
    I understand your exposing the absurdness of the statements, but musk can change his mind after 2 years.
    - Khalos 4y ago
      I believe his factories are still currently running, so it doesn't appear he changed his mind on the matter.
    - 4ggr0 4y ago
      That's a possibility, yes. My gut-feeling is that he believes whatever is profitable for him. Two years ago he wanted his factories to continue producing cars and didn't see the virus as good enough reason to stop, now he seems it see it as enough of a reason to not appear on a disposition, after apparently having been infected twice already. You can also constantly find pictures and videos of him being around people etc. Musk said that the interviewing attorney had contact with an infected person 4 days prior. Yet, this attorney tested negative multiple times. So why is a disposition suddenly an issue? Probably because he doesn't want to attend it, or rather, wants as much time as possible to prepare with his lawyers. That's just my speculation, of course.
    - dathos 4y ago
      When it affects him
    - AlexandrB 4y ago
      If true, this is a huge condemnation of Musk. If he's changed his mind but has done nothing to protect his employees he's basically saying he's worried about his own exposure to COVID but DGAF about anyone else. The more charitable read is that this is a "my dog ate my homework" excuse to not attend deposition.
    - MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
      Wasn't his back to the office order just a few months ago?
    - bena 4y ago
      Except conditions were worse when he wanted to open his factories. We have vaccines now, COVID is more endemic than pandemic, and the current variants don't have the punch of the initial strains. He's trying to play "gotcha". Either they do care about COVID and grant his request or they've been lying the whole time about COVID. But that's a false dichotomy. He's betting on the court not saying "You're being disingenuous about your concerns" or "Our protocols for COVID have changed due to X, Y, and Z, so there are no more exceptions". He believes he can play semantic games to get out of doing things. Because that's worked for him in the past. But the only reason that worked for him in the past is because of money. The people he used it on had no recourse against his resources. He's running into the hard wall of reality most of us run into a long time ago. He's finally up against someone who has even more resources than he does.
  - TakeBlaster16 4y ago
    COVID for thee but not for me
  - swayvil 4y ago
    - helf 4y ago
      The whole "retarded rigmarole" that he initiated?
  - Bakary 4y ago
    I don't think he's worried about his own health so much as formulating the excuse as an insult. The subtext is pretty clear to me, at least. Only semi-related, but a Russian once told me that in the West people lie to manipulate, but in Russia people lie to your face to insult you. Whether he was lying to my face is a question left as an exercise to the reader.
    - 4ggr0 4y ago
      Yes, that's what I think as well. The second part of your comment sounds interesting as well. I don't know if that's true, but I noticed as well that the we westeners seem to do similar things like the ones we criticize, we just do it while claiming that it's for [freedom, democracy, safety, increased GDP, jobs, ...]. But that's how international politics works, I guess.
- devinegan 4y ago
  But wants all Tesla employees back to the office…
- chemmail 4y ago
  Yes, i also have covid and cannot attend X for the last 2 years.

belter 4y ago

It's Musk you are talking about... "Musk declined to attend in-person Twitter deposition, citing COVID exposure risk" - https://news.yahoo.com/musk-declined-attend-person-twitter-200254654.html https://news.yahoo.com/musk-declined-attend-person-twitter-2... Note the link above refers to a previous scheduled date, not the one that should start today. :-)

outside1234 4y ago
This from the guy that wanted his employees to work in close spaces during the height of the pandemic without be vaccinated? What a BS artist this guy is
4ggr0 4y ago
> citing COVID exposure risk Is this the same Musk who wanted to keep his factories running and downplaying COVID? - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/Elon-Musk-tesla-factory-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/Elon-Musk-tesla-... Ironic that he's complaining about "fascist" COVID guidelines and wants to keep his lemmings working at all costs, but as soon as his own health is on the line, it's suddenly dangerous. (of course it's not ironic at all and just what I expect of him, but, you know...)
- jetbalsa 4y ago
  I understand your exposing the absurdness of the statements, but musk can change his mind after 2 years.
  - Khalos 4y ago
    I believe his factories are still currently running, so it doesn't appear he changed his mind on the matter.
  - 4ggr0 4y ago
    That's a possibility, yes. My gut-feeling is that he believes whatever is profitable for him. Two years ago he wanted his factories to continue producing cars and didn't see the virus as good enough reason to stop, now he seems it see it as enough of a reason to not appear on a disposition, after apparently having been infected twice already. You can also constantly find pictures and videos of him being around people etc. Musk said that the interviewing attorney had contact with an infected person 4 days prior. Yet, this attorney tested negative multiple times. So why is a disposition suddenly an issue? Probably because he doesn't want to attend it, or rather, wants as much time as possible to prepare with his lawyers. That's just my speculation, of course.
  - dathos 4y ago
    When it affects him
  - AlexandrB 4y ago
    If true, this is a huge condemnation of Musk. If he's changed his mind but has done nothing to protect his employees he's basically saying he's worried about his own exposure to COVID but DGAF about anyone else. The more charitable read is that this is a "my dog ate my homework" excuse to not attend deposition.
  - MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
    Wasn't his back to the office order just a few months ago?
  - bena 4y ago
    Except conditions were worse when he wanted to open his factories. We have vaccines now, COVID is more endemic than pandemic, and the current variants don't have the punch of the initial strains. He's trying to play "gotcha". Either they do care about COVID and grant his request or they've been lying the whole time about COVID. But that's a false dichotomy. He's betting on the court not saying "You're being disingenuous about your concerns" or "Our protocols for COVID have changed due to X, Y, and Z, so there are no more exceptions". He believes he can play semantic games to get out of doing things. Because that's worked for him in the past. But the only reason that worked for him in the past is because of money. The people he used it on had no recourse against his resources. He's running into the hard wall of reality most of us run into a long time ago. He's finally up against someone who has even more resources than he does.
- TakeBlaster16 4y ago
  COVID for thee but not for me
- swayvil 4y ago
  - helf 4y ago
    The whole "retarded rigmarole" that he initiated?
- Bakary 4y ago
  I don't think he's worried about his own health so much as formulating the excuse as an insult. The subtext is pretty clear to me, at least. Only semi-related, but a Russian once told me that in the West people lie to manipulate, but in Russia people lie to your face to insult you. Whether he was lying to my face is a question left as an exercise to the reader.
  - 4ggr0 4y ago
    Yes, that's what I think as well. The second part of your comment sounds interesting as well. I don't know if that's true, but I noticed as well that the we westeners seem to do similar things like the ones we criticize, we just do it while claiming that it's for [freedom, democracy, safety, increased GDP, jobs, ...]. But that's how international politics works, I guess.
devinegan 4y ago
But wants all Tesla employees back to the office…
chemmail 4y ago
Yes, i also have covid and cannot attend X for the last 2 years.