• Gloomy@mander.xyz
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    “Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk wrote in the all-staff email. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

    This is so fucking cringy.

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      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.

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        Surely the grand objective of, as he puts it:

        build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world

        means it’s just as much worth it for him to pay overtime and/or hire more people as it is for others to “work long hours at high intensity”

        Unless, of course, he was bullshitting and being an hypocrite.

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

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