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I read it as 75% decided to ignore that email. I guess one way to interpret that is that they decided to quit, but I don’t see it that way. It’s more like an ul
by function_seven 4y ago
I read it as 75% decided to ignore that email. I guess one way to interpret that is that they decided to quit, but I don’t see it that way. It’s more like an ultimatum that they refused to respond to.
Checking that box was agreeing to work “hardcore” and add a bunch of hours to your day. I imagine a lot of people receiving that email guessed that their colleagues would also ignore the box and figured “he won’t fire all of us, right?”.
- philosopher1234 4y agoWhy not interpret it as “after all this, and if that’s the future, I’d rather leave”?
- function_seven 4y agoOh for sure. Some portion of non-box-checkers probably did think that. But 75% is such a high non-response rate that I’m betting another large cohort were just aggressively apathetic to the stupid email. Won’t play the game, but will collect a paycheck and do normal work as long as they’re allowed to.
- netsharc 4y agoYeah, the 75% might have learned that the new management is really fucking clueless and the chaos isn't stopping soon. Even if they clicked "Yes", chances are tomorrow there'll be another fucking stunt and you're straight back to panicking about losing your job anyway. Hey Elon, how about this: fire employees with long names, because they take longer to type in their login, and that's inefficient!
- shock-value 4y agoI think it’s a bit of a point of no return for both sides. Musk wanted all chips on the table, got them, and it turns out his hand isn’t as strong as he thought. There is no going back to status quo after this email stunt, it literally made clear that the majority of employees are just sticking around until they find something else, and would even leave sooner if at all pushed to. This is a sinking ship.
- jfoutz 4y agoI have no firsthand knowledge, but from the screenshot alleged to be the email, it did look a lot like a phishing email.
- threeseed 4y agoThey have internal Slack channels for people to check if it's real or not.
- rurp 4y agoThis all seems plausible to me, but if this is the case doesn't it weaken Elon quite a bit going forward? If a boss at any company says "Everybody do this simple thing or you're fired", and a bunch of employees respond by rolling their eyes and walking away, that manager has to either fire a bunch of people or become a joke. Or maybe both happen, issuing an ultimatum like that is usually pretty dumb.