Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K

I always worder if these sums include the fee of the lawyer. Would really be a much smaller payout if true.

What an amazing businessman!

So the opposition of chill. Like wtf is the big rush, are aliens invading and unless our social media is shoestring enough they'll obliterate us?

Can't believe this guy thinks he has anything meaningful to contribute to humanities future other than scaling up grind

Is he willing to pay for those extra hours?

Many companies promote a work culture where heroic employees are supposed do long hours for free just because good employees are passionate about their job. That's just exploitation.

How hard is the core are we talking here? Like raw dog HTML no JS hard?

Sounds like by his own grading scale he is a dismal failure not worth what his title gets paid.

I mean he renamed Twitter to X. It is assumed his actions will be cringy.

Coming from the guy who demanded tens of billions in bonuses from Tesla shareholders in order to 'stay motivated'.

Imagine taking pride in this fucking gold plated cesspool we call the US.

It boggles the mind.

Ireland has attracted many tech companies including Twitter, and the latter has a massive employment footprint here.

Damn, $600k times 35 people is only $21mil. That's pocked change for this jerk. And yet, I'll bet he fights paying just the $600k to the one person tooth and nail like the spoiled rich fuck that he is.

I fucking hate that so much.

“People think a thing is cool, so the person who owns the thing is cool and should get a monetary value based on a lot of people’s opinions”

And everyone is lIke “Yes this system is great! Let’s do this with more people”.

And then one day nobody thought the thing was cool anymore for…reasons (Tesla) and so that person loses money relatively proportional to how many cool points they lose in the minds of a bunch of other people.

But that’s a travesty and this person’s coolness now affects a lot of other people’s coolness to the point that it could severely fuck up the economy if enough people stopped thinking they were cool. So we have to keep telling this person we still think they’re cool so that shit doesn’t get really bad until we have a better plan in place to deal with it.

And then we’re like fuck…that was stupid…we shouldn’t do that again. And everyone agrees.

Meanwhile we’re still doing it with countless other people and things and we’ll act just as shocked pikachu face the next 30 times it happens.

It’s so fucked up and dumb.

You can't fuck his horse, he had to sell it to cover his debts. It's someone else's horse now.

If he tried to liquidate all of his Tesla shares on the open market over a period of time, I wouldn't be surprised if it was less than half.

SpaceX is another story though as it's not public and he can just do a private sale. He could probably get very close to what his shares are worth, maybe even more as it's value keeps going up each time they raise money.

Google SBLOC and you understand where he gets all his cash

H1B hostages

A lot of them are immigrants who will be deported if they lose the job. I know I'd rather live in either California or Texas than a lot of places in India. (Especially these days, if the immigrant is a Muslim.)

In 2022 there were some stories of how people on work visas were unable to jump ship while others were fleeing en masse. And now after all the tech layoffs in the USA, I imagine that finding another company to sponsor their visa, has become a lot harder still. So that's one group still working there: people who will be deported if they lose their job.

I have never worked there (or any other major tech company) but if I had a job there, I wouldn't give it up until I'd found another job. Perhaps the people there aren't going crazy at the job hunt and still just haven't found another job they want.

It's really easy to think "all the layoffs are over and I made it" and "job hunting is painful, I don't want to do it today" and just coast for a long time.

I'm sure every awful thing he does spurs another effort for job hunting, but unless the job actually makes them work harder or fires them, it probably doesn't change much for them.

Also, they get paid a lot more than I do, and sometimes it's worth the pain to keep raking in that cash.

Most of these tech companies pay really well, although you can argue about the benefits of that when most of your money goes towards paying for a landlord's retirement.

The boss may be a complete bell-end but most of them will never have to deal with him.