Musk used 'What did you get done this week?' tactic at Twitter

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Elon Musk is again using tactics that he has employed at his company X and trying to apply it to the federal government.

The line he’s using on federal workers to justify their employment -- “What did you get done this week?” -- is the same message he sent to the then-CEO of Twitter, now X, Parag Agrawal before Musk bought the company.

Musk sent the text in 2022 when he was fighting with Agrawal, who had asked Musk to stop posting criticisms about Twitter, saying it was distracting the staff.

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Musk ultimately purchased Twitter for $44 billion. He fired Agrawal, who later sued Musk alongside other executives who accused Musk of withholding severance payment. After the acquisition, Musk reportedly told employees to print out the code they had recently written to show the work they had done and justify their employment.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/musk-week-tactic-twitter/story?id=119099997

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Note that the value of Twitter has dropped an estimated 71.5% since Musk acquired it. On the other hand his investment in Twitter has helped him to purchase the United States, which will ultimately yield far greater rewards to his bottom line.

[NJCher]

1. is he in competition with trump?

as the worst businessman in the U.S.?

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President Business Deals [trump] sucks at business and making deals. That's the takeaway from a breathtaking New York Times report on Trump's tax filings from 1985 to 1994, which show Trump lost about $100 million every year for a decade. "Year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer," says the Paper of Record. Losing $1 billion over 10 years, he was hemorrhaging more than $11,000 an hour.
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Esquire

"I'm not a businessman, I just play one on TV in American politics."

[Irish_Dem]

3. Musk bought the entire federal gov't for $300 million, he got an excellent deal.

[NJCher]

8. Yeah, for you maybe

You've made it clear that democracy is over for you, but many others, such as myself, believe in resilience and self-efficacy. It's not over yet, not by a long shot.

[Irish_Dem]

9. You are 100% wrong in your statements.

1. It is very foolish to attack members of your own team who have your back and are fighting on your side.
Dividing your own team on purpose is quite imprudent.
It is doing what our enemies want us to do.

2. And you are very much off base.
I use sarcastic hyperbole very specifically.
And apparently flies over the head of some people.

[NJCher]

10. so are you willing to say that

you, too, believe that trump and his MAGAT government can be overcome?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. One of the stupidest things about Muck is that sometimes writing ten lines to replace 1000 lines is

One of the stupidest things is that sometimes writing ten lines to replace 1000 lines is worth much more than writing 1000 lines of code. And it can take just as long to write those 10 lines as to write the 1000 lines.

But chainsaw style hedge fund vulture capitalists love simplistic metrics.

That is what Muck has become: a vulture capitalist using a chain saw to carve out some asset value and break a company (government) in the process.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "But chainsaw style hedge fund vulture capitalists love simplistic metrics." Prexactly !

Mush (N-ZA) and his "D"o"G""E" are trying to govern by quotas. (Gee, didn't conservatives used to hate quotas ? It's so hard to keep up !) 'Number of people fired' is a quota that satisfies them, no matter who gets fired, or how essential they were. It actually reminds me of something I read about Stalin -- he would send out orders that a certain number of people needed to be executed, and demanded his subordinates supply a list of names to be arrested and executed. How they made those lists was up to them. After they got rid of every conceivable enemy, they started picking names at random, and arresting people for the most minor of deviations from the acceptable Communist norm. And if Stalin found the list too short, the list-maker got added to the list. The point was to keep his subjects terrified, afraid to do anything that might draw official attention to themselves. And when they saw friends, acquaintances, neighbors, arrested, they assumed they must have done something wrong, even if they had no idea what it could be. The point was not to punish actual rebelliousness, but just to keep people so terrified that they didn't dare do anything to make trouble, even if only in words.

Not surprising CEOs would love this approach. I once heard a "problem solver" CEO say that the first thing he did when he was hired to rescue a company was to fire half the people in upper management, regardless. He said it let people know he was serious. It's hard to imagine a more destructive approach to getting people's attention, but of course it appeals to dickheads, so that's what they do it.

[Klarkashton]

4. What has musk's company done lately?

Sent up a rocket that blew up. Car and truck sales are in the shitter. People leaving Twitter in droves.
Dutch Boy is in the toilet.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. No long-term thinking allowed. We have quarterly earnings to report.

This strategy has worked sooooooo well for so many CEOs -- for their companies, not so much. Musk has enough money invested in his companies he needs to rethink this approach. Of course, he won't.

[Gary 50]

7. If I worked for the government this would be my response. What did I do this week?

I wrote a letter to a racist, fascist prick who thinks he's a genius. I told him to go back where he came from and to take his nazi political views and shove them up his ass. I suggested he take his junior partner, the treasonous apricot hellbeast with him. Now do I get my promotion? I earned it!

[Magoo48]

11. Considering all the sound and fury above, and with respect, and simply put, The Nazis Will Lose.