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Elon 'Back to the Office' Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands

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

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.

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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82 comments

Rules for thee not for me.

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- The only thing worse than having to go to the office to watch a video of Elon, is watching him in person
  
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  Yeah then you might get a whiff of his musk
  
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  I initially misread "person" as "prison" and thought wait that can't be right
  
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- This just in, Elon bans getting high at work
  
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- Imagine future pirates digging there to find something valuable
  
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- I don't think that's fair. When he took over Twitter, he was there every hour of the day for the first few weeks, sleeping in the office. He's now running 6 major companies all around the US and people complain about using private jets then about not using them to show up to some events.
  
  Don't get me wrong, I would never want to work for him and strongly prefer remote work, but this claim is just unfair, he's not working from home, he's working from other companies he's running.
  
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  If ceos can "run" six companies I don't think ceos actually do any work.
  
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What a little piss baby

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Why would anyone want to work for such a tool bag?

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- No one wants to work for him. He's just holding visa workers hostage
  
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  I wonder how many of those are still the case now? When he first took over, that was absolutely huge deal, since it's extremely difficult to find another job as a visa worker. But it's not impossible and Twitter employees would have very strong resumes. It's been so long that I suspect many of those who wanted to leave could have found another company willing to sponsor by now.
  
  There's definitely Musk fanboys in the company. There's no shortage of people, especially the "tech bro" type, who somehow still adore Musk.
  
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  I won't be surprised. Do you know of any news articles that confirm this?
  
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- I work in manufacturing in the bay area. We hire so many people who are ex-tesla workers. Anyone enchanted by Elon quickly loses their gusto for the job after working there. I've heard some horror stories about how they treat their technicians
  
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  I know some technicians that are getting interview requests from Tesla, do you have any horror stories I can pass along?
  
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  You can't just tease us like that😡
  
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- Money. I had some friends at Tesla early on and became millionaires from the stock options.
  
  Twitter. No idea why anyone is left.
  
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- Sabotage from the inside. Like the guy that architected the “Death Star”
  
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  Bevel Lemelisk? Don't think he did any sabotage.
  
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- When I started working, I was dedicated to work and wanted nothing else than to produce lines of code, I just loved it so much. Having a boss that was like this, dedicated and loved hard workers, I'd have loved working for him. Few years later? Fuck that, give me 100% remote, 35h/w with 7 weeks vacations, I'd be truely happy that way!
  
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- People probably have to pay rent or some shit
  
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My boss recently did the same because he “accidentally” schedule his vacation at the same time of our yearly goal setting meeting. Lol.

But fuck me for buying plane tickets for my vacation 6 months in advance when they were on sale and I didn’t have the days approved off. $300 wasted and a giant fuck you a year later. 👍

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- 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.
  
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  Exactly! It is not a Time Off Request. It is a Time Off NOTIFICATION.
  
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  You are completely misrepresenting the power dynamic between employer and employee. The entire reason unions exist is to attempt to correct that power imbalance.
  
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  It's a common misconception, in most countries the time off you get is a right but not when you get it.
  
  If your boss wants you to take specific days off you must oblige. If they say spread your vacation out over the next 10 Tuesdays that's the end of it.
  
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What a punk ass bitch.

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

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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...

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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.

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- 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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  Why it's so close to what we could've imagined?
  
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- Isn't this the roof of the headquarters? It's always looked like a couple of guys found some metal and bolted it together.
  
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  I thought at first that it looked like a couple of construction cranes.
  
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- Imagine future pirates digging there to find something valuable
  
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  I feel sorry for the pirates.
  
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- It's only a few months old and it's already falling apart.
  
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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.

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- 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?
  
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  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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- I down vote anyone that doesn't call it twitter. Why are people just doing that?
  
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I feel for those poor bastards whose work visas are tired to that site.

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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.

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- 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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- I'm under the impression that those that can get out are. A lot of H1B workers might be stuck though.
  
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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?

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- Xcreted
  
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- 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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- You Xit it.
  
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  Popped that xitter
  
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- Xitted out.
  
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How are employees not sabotaging this shit from the inside?

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- Trying to out-sabotage Elon? It's quite the challenge.
  
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  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."
  
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- 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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- It's a giant sheet metal steel X?( Looks galvanized steel but could be aluminum dk dc). A decent dent in one of the support legs combined with a smidge of force and the unit may come tumbling down. For fucks sake two w8 beams welded in the middle with a center support column mounted in concrete would have been soooo much stronger and cheaper
  
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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"?

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- Some BBs could probably smash enough of the lights in it from a distance?
  
  Or maybe paintballs to make it green
  
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  ooh i like that
  
  i bet a drone could carry an airbrush actually
  
  fly right up and dye the bulbs trans flag colors X3
  
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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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Ah, the good ol' "rules for me but not for thee"

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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.

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I'm far from a Musk apologist, I can't stand the guy, but he has responsibilities with at least X, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Tesla that I know of, so maybe something legitimately came up that required his presence.

Still, it's a pretty bad look to dial into the first all-hands at your newest company after making everyone else RTO. Hypocrisy is one of the most annoying things for me.

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- If he can do it remotely so can his employees.
  
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- The man is a billionaire with a private jet. It would only take, at most, 3 hours to get from Austin to SF.
  
  If he can call it in for X, then it can work the other way around too for all the other companies. He just couldn’t be bothered to actually show some good leadership, for once.
  
  If he can’t balance the responsibilities for owning all those companies, then he shouldn’t be running them and should sell them off.
  
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- morale is your responsibility as a CEO. This is a shit move dawg.
  
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- If he wasn't shit posting on Twitter 24/7 Id say maaaaybe. But the reality is he shit posts on Twitter 24/7 and is babysat when ever he shows up at the other two companies.
  
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- lol for real? Just look at the timestamps of his tweets on his Twitter account, the dude does nothing but post 24/7. Look at his jet locations, dude hasn’t been to work at Tesla in a long time. He barely goes to Austin and basically lives in the Twitter HQ. I mean fuck, during Tesla quarterly earnings calls you can literally see he was tweeting about conspiracy theories and shit. Come. Fucking. On.
  
  He’s a greedy fat fuck who torpedoed his own reputation along with the reputation of nearly everything he touches. He’s living, breathing, and walking proof that CEOs do essentially nothing and that they are EXTREMELY overpaid for what little they actually do compared to their employees who actually make the businesses run and develop the products.
  
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