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31. Wow, where have I heard THAT one before?

WAY back, maybe 25 years ago, I got a call out of the blue from a guy I had heard of, but never really met. He started out, "we haven't talked in a while...." I reminded him that we hadn't talked EVER. I knew him by reputation, as he presumably did me (otherwise, why would he be calling?). Sure enough, he was head-hunting. Since I had already been with my outfit for almost 25 years (50th anniversary in 2025), I don't know what in the world he thought would entice me to switch jobs at that point.

Not only that, about 2 years before, he recruited away one of our lower echelon guys with a promise of a bigger salary and a relocation to Southern California. The guy jumped at the chance. About ten days later, he was on the phone pleading to come back, he had made an ENORMOUS mistake, please, please, please? The guy in California was a notorious control freak, and demanded detailed reports of every move, every conversation, every trip he made in his car, it was SCARY what the guy wanted. We took him back that time, but he got into some other grass-is-greener deal a year or two later, and we didn't take him back the second time.

If Musk is that way, too, he will end up with nothing but guys like our jerk, always thinking a better deal is right around the corner, until they find out the cost to their peace of mind.