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> 3. Brain drain. I expect the exact opposite. This is the part where Musk thrives and also where he's at his cruelest. He will remove slackers and non-performe

> 3. Brain drain. I expect the exact opposite. This is the part where Musk thrives and also where he's at his cruelest. He will remove slackers and non-performers without mercy and surround himself with class A players only. Next he'll overload them with near impossible targets and you can't bullshit yourself out of it. You deliver or you're out. I would expect him to run this for a year or so and accomplish more than Twitter's dysfunctional product team did in their entire history. Is Musk planning on paying Twitter employees substantially more than other tech companies? Why would any class A player want the privilege of being "overloaded" with work when they can make similar or better money elsewhere and also have better work-life balance? Why do all the Elon worshippers seem to assume that everyone is as enamored him as they are and will happily volunteer to be exploited by him so the world's richest man can get even richer?

fleddr 4y ago
You clearly don't know what an A player is. An A player does not have any work life balance. And no, when you make hundreds of thousands of $ per year, you're not "exploited". And yes, quite a few people would love to work for Musk just because he's Musk. Exciting things happen around him.
- esoterica 4y ago
  > You clearly don't know what an A player is. If you work harder than the B players and don't get paid more than them, then you are not an A player, you are just a gullible rube who lets other people exploit them. A players may or may not work harder than the B players, but they definitely command more money than them. > And no, when you make hundreds of thousands of $ per year, you're not "exploited". Yes you are, if other equally qualified people can make more money working less. > And yes, quite a few people would love to work for Musk just because he's Musk. Musk has a cult of personality and there are some people out there with no self-respect who will let themselves be exploited by him. Those people are not A players, though.
  - fleddr 4y ago
    In your last point, you reveal your true point: you just don't like him. I don't necessarily do either, but that shouldn't get in the way of a rational discussion.
    - freejazz 4y ago
      Weird how you ignore the point where he describes how if you work more than someone else who is also getting paid more than you, then you are getting a bad deal...
      - fleddr 4y ago
        Nah, this is pretty much the deal for 99% of people on this planet.
JasserInicide 4y ago
Musk is famous for paying meager wages relative to other companies in exchange for being able to say "I worked at Tesla". And those are on public companies where you have to keep up with the quarterly earnings rat race. Normally you'd expect to see better wages in a private company, but given that it's Musk who knows.

fleddr 4y ago

You clearly don't know what an A player is. An A player does not have any work life balance. And no, when you make hundreds of thousands of $ per year, you're not "exploited". And yes, quite a few people would love to work for Musk just because he's Musk. Exciting things happen around him.

esoterica 4y ago
> You clearly don't know what an A player is. If you work harder than the B players and don't get paid more than them, then you are not an A player, you are just a gullible rube who lets other people exploit them. A players may or may not work harder than the B players, but they definitely command more money than them. > And no, when you make hundreds of thousands of $ per year, you're not "exploited". Yes you are, if other equally qualified people can make more money working less. > And yes, quite a few people would love to work for Musk just because he's Musk. Musk has a cult of personality and there are some people out there with no self-respect who will let themselves be exploited by him. Those people are not A players, though.
- fleddr 4y ago
  In your last point, you reveal your true point: you just don't like him. I don't necessarily do either, but that shouldn't get in the way of a rational discussion.
  - freejazz 4y ago
    Weird how you ignore the point where he describes how if you work more than someone else who is also getting paid more than you, then you are getting a bad deal...
    - fleddr 4y ago
      Nah, this is pretty much the deal for 99% of people on this planet.

JasserInicide 4y ago

Musk is famous for paying meager wages relative to other companies in exchange for being able to say "I worked at Tesla". And those are on public companies where you have to keep up with the quarterly earnings rat race. Normally you'd expect to see better wages in a private company, but given that it's Musk who knows.