3497

Sounds oddly familiar.

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The Tesla CEO has become a figurehead for peers who are tired of workers’ new emphasis on work-life balance and their employees’ desire to disengage from hustle culture, reports Callum Borchers of The Wall Street Journal. “I think every successful CEO, including myself, is tired of all the whining,” Michael Friedman, chief executive of the New York investment firm First Level Capital, told Borchers.

Managers have tried out being “the nice guy” for a couple of years as the workforce relaxed into sweatpants and Zoom calls during the pandemic. But it’s getting stale for leaders like Musk who are over the new way of work. He’s able to play by a different rulebook than other CEOs, Borchers writes, who are watching Musk’s “hardcore” tactics from the sidelines and wishing they could act the same. Friedman admitted that the lack of zeroes behind his name prohibits him from having the leverage Musk does.

It’s all part of the “do-gooder fatigue” that some bosses are experiencing, an executive headhunter told The Financial Times: These days, ”the feeling is, we need to get back to business.”

3499

What I just heard is “everyone needs to unionize.” Then we’ll see who’s whining.

3500

Hahaha “do-gooder fatigue”. Who would use that phrase except arseholes?

3501

Pretending to be anything other than a money-grubbing psychopath is exhausting, man.

3502

I had assumed I was reading The Onion…

3503

Ugh

FiMF6KnXwBEmOPw

3504

Nothing inspires confidence like refusing to pay your bills!

3505

It is the Way of the Donald. Winning!

3506

Not sure forcing Oracle to renegotiate is going to work out quite the way Musk hopes it will…

3507

Release the lawyers!

oracle-org-chart-300x195

3508

The funny part is, let’s say Elon waved a magic wand and all the advertisers came back.

He’s still be hemorrhaging so fast it wouldn’t matter. And those advertisers have all the leverage anyway.
Like Twitter wasn’t making money in the first place. Elon’s magic idea was “there are hundreds of millions of users, if 10% of them paid me money I could make a profit”. Only, no one is going to give him money as he runs shit into the ground and pisses people off. People weren’t going to give him money even if he ran it perfectly. Any advertisers that come back are going to expect massive discounts on what they used to pay because the service is dogshit in comparison.

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3510

Not to mention corporate advertising spend is way down compared to when Musk first made his offer, and of course all those big spending crypto companies have gone bust.

3511

That’s certainly one possibility. Another possibility that convicted felon D’Souza might consider is that ‘democrats’ and ‘leftists’ abided by the TOS of the site.

3512

Also leftists and democrats got banned fairly often (especially leftists).

They just didn’t launch cancel culture campaigns and get on Fox News when they did.
I know a guy who is on like his 4th account and he describes himself as “to the Left of Lenin”.

3513

I was banned for asking Sean Hannity if he was mentally handicapped.

Not even saying he was! I was just asking questions!

3514

How’s that content moderation council coming along?

“We are going to do a content council, but it’s an advisory council,” Musk said in the call. “It’s not a… They’re not the ones who actually… At the end of the day it will be me deciding, and like any pretense to the contrary is simply not true. Because obviously I could choose who’s on that content council and I don’t need to listen to what they say.”

And with that, let’s hear no more about how forum moderation is a difficult and thankless task! After all, here’s someone spending billions so that he gets the opportunity to do basically the same job, albeit on a somewhat larger scale.

3515

Dems and leftists did get nailed on Twitter before it’s jokerfication. While I never got into any trouble on twitter, I had enough friends who did that I discovered mastodon early.

Most of those friends deserved their trouble , and got into it other places as well.

3516

It’s a pretty weird strategy.

“Not only am I gonna charge you 8 bucks, but I’m also gonna make you feel like absolute dogshit if you decide to pay it.”