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Elon 'Back to the Office' Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands (gizmodo.com)

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The billionaire owner and CEO Linda Yaccarino dialed in from out of town, vaguely touting new features that will roll out in the coming months.

There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground. A year after Musk officially took over the platform, both he and recently installed X CEO Linda Yaccarino held a joint all-hands Thursday to address some of the changes at the company and suggested that X might be a new financial platform.

Neither Musk himself nor Yaccarino showed up, according to a report from Fortune Thursday. The two executives dialed in remotely from Austin and New York City, respectively, citing an anonymous source within the company. Musk and Yaccarino skipping out on an in-person appearance during the all-hands comes after the former demanded employees return to office 40 hours per week last November, according to Insider, in one of his first sweeping changes as owner.

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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 176 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Rules for thee not for me.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago

The only thing worse than having to go to the office to watch a video of Elon, is watching him in person

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

This just in, Elon bans getting high at work

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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 103 points 2 years ago

What a little piss baby

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[–] Bread@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That's the thing though. When we schedule those days off, it is more of a friendly notice than a request. I am going, you can't stop me. If you would rather have to replace an employee and retrain them, be my guest. Its not worth it for them unless you do something easily replaceable.

[–] CharadeYouAreNot@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly! It is not a Time Off Request. It is a Time Off NOTIFICATION.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah. As a manager, I'm often surprised that team members who report to me don't actually realize this.

Actual conversation I've had:

"Thanks for letting me know your time off plans. I have to cover this logistic, but we will work around it."

"I mean, I can change it if it's too much trouble."

"How would your spouse feel about that?"

"Pissed."

"And if your spouse wanted you to change jobs, how long would that take?

"Oh."

(Oh meaning - At most, four weeks in an average market for their skillset, more like 3 months in the current unprecedentedly slow market. Either way, it's hell for me covering their lost expertise and then training their replacement.)

"Yeah. Thanks for letting me know. We will make it work. Tell your spouse I said 'Hi' and 'thanks' for the early heads up."

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah I wish more people would realize this. If a business can't afford to give you vacation time, they are even less able to afford losing that employee entirely.

And if push comes to shove, you don't quit and go on vacation anyways. You go on vacation anyways and let them fire you when you get back if that's what they're inclined to do about it.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are completely misrepresenting the power dynamic between employer and employee. The entire reason unions exist is to attempt to correct that power imbalance.

[–] Bread@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I agree and disagree. For the average low paying job that doesn't require any skill or knowledge, a union is the only arguing power you have. However, if you are hard to replace because of skill/knowledge and you know it, the power balances back. You have the power to say no without consequences.

Obviously don't push it to where the cost of replacing you is worth it for your employer, but you have more power than most realize. Making yourself invaluable only increases your say in how things go. So getting the time you requested off is certainly doable.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have seen plenty of companies can someone with specialized knowledge, no mater how much you are the only person to know something, you are still less important than your bosses vacation, or the department financing, and this is from tel-co development, where island knowledge is almost the norm

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[–] Nedlymandico@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

What a punk ass bitch.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 39 points 2 years ago

That's some real "I'm a big dick" energy

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

At this point I'm only surprised about the picture. I've seen photoes of Twitter logo&name being demontaged from their headquarter a year ago, but then I've seen a lot of images of X physically installed somewhere, like this one. Are they real? It looks so, so bad.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, it's real. Originally it lit up so brightly at night that neighbors couldn't sleep and they got the cops involved.

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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this the roof of the headquarters? It's always looked like a couple of guys found some metal and bolted it together.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought at first that it looked like a couple of construction cranes.

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[–] mcz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine future pirates digging there to find something valuable

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I feel sorry for the pirates.

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[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

It's basically the story for most VP+ level execs at big tech companies. All parroting RTO rules, while on video in their home office, or from an office that isn't assigned to them...

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago

I feel for those poor bastards whose work visas are tired to that site.

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would agree, but seeing as tho Musk's entire fortune is built on his image, anything that can damage it is good for humanity, and let's be honest he is paying for the shit ton of "Musk the myth, the Legend" articles, so why not boost the ones calling him out?

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but Musk operates on the “any publicity is good publicity” strategy. He doesn't care if it's good news or bad news.

Also we've had heaps of bad news about Musk and yet the cycle continues even after he has been called out countless times. In reality, articles like this that wouldn't even make the news for another company have one effect - they keep Musk and his businesses in the 24 hour news cycle.

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[–] PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I down vote anyone that doesn't call it twitter. Why are people just doing that?

[–] iMastari@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure Xwitter pays well but I am surprised that the employees stick around due to all Musk has done to destroy the company.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah. There's some speculation that most of those who stayed are probably stuck due to life circumstances like visa sponsorship.

Edit: I imagine they're not staying for the stock options, at this point, in any case!

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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground.

I disagree. There is much about it that is very surprising, which is why we're still talking about it. Maybe he meant "There's very little that people should be surprised about, because this shit has been going on for a year now, and it just keeps getting dumber and dumber."

which Yaccarino tweeted about on Wednesday.

Are we still calling it that? Wouldn't she have Xed it?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 23 points 2 years ago

Xcreted

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You Xit it.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Popped that xitter

[–] UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

It's crazy that they had a brand so strong that the name of the company is the word for the thing that the company does and this clown decided to change it.

It would be like Kleenex or Band-Aid changing their name.

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[–] ours@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trying to out-sabotage Elon? It's quite the challenge.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The comedy heist movie almost writes itself.

"We created a backdoor into the system, but now we're just waiting because it crashed and it's down right now."

"We smuggled an EMP into the data center, but it didn't do anything because it turns out everything critical is actually running on someone's laptop in the accounting team."

[–] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Oh you wanted to crash data center 2? Nah, *Elon went there and ripped the servers out himself on a cost cutting trip.

*Elon actually did this.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

As I understand, a significant amount of the employees who stayed are ones who depend on steady work to stay in the country. For these folks, sabotaging their company could ultimately end in being deported. IDK about you but I don't think that's the hill I'd die on.

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if that big dumb annoying "x" at the top of the building is there illegally

HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING would the law actually prosecute anyone for trying to remove it without their consent?

i mean... it'd be tricky to get rid of that thing without employing dangerous tools. it's not like anyone would condone dropping thermite or munitions on it from a drone... and you probably can't fit power tools on a drone or exert enough force with a drone for those power tools to be effective.

but still, just as a thought experiment, how might one go about removing an unsanctioned structural eyesore from a building, as a "public service"?

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Some BBs could probably smash enough of the lights in it from a distance?

Or maybe paintballs to make it green

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

ooh i like that

i bet a drone could carry an airbrush actually

fly right up and dye the bulbs trans flag colors X3

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

I can't imagine that Yaccarino will ever have a high-positioned post after this. She championed a shitshow. She didn't get out when it was obvious that it was tanking. No one will trust her again.

Then again, these types tend to bounce around from plane crash to plane crash…

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