yeah seems pretty clear at this point that companies are going to have to get on board with wfh or lose their people to ones that are
meta mandated a return to work a month or two back and ... nobody came in. i am like the only person on my floor. it's spooky but super productive!
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
I still think this might largely be the case, but it seems less so with each passing month. I keep hearing from friends that their wfh/remote options are either being rescinded entirely or severely reduced. In lots of markets it seems like the landlords and business park owners are whining about lost income in the right ears or something.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
I have a buddy that works for Apple and he reports that their mandated return to work is really, really unpopular
And they're losing prospective staff to companies that are more flexible
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
theyre def trying i just think mid-long term that offering wfh will be such an advantage that eventually everyone will get on board, not to mention that theyll save on office space, rn theyre all locked in to leases but eventually thatll play out, who knows maybe some of that office space can be converted to housing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
maybe we can all move into apples zillion dollar new headquarters
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
lmao @ "Tesla's success is due to me sleeping on the floor" in the wake of all these "Elon was a shitty programmer and everything he did had to be redone" stories
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
He didn't make any coding mistakes when he was sleeping, though.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
i didnt know he even claimed to be a programmer thought it was more mechanical engineer, just saw a guy on twitter say elon asked him how to run a python script lol which i mean he couldve easily googled it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
i think his BS degree isn't doesn't stand for Bachelor's in Science
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
huh just physics and economics i guess
Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk: Sleep that’s where I’m a programmer.
― life is a highway to the danger zone (PBKR), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
meaning he is a robot who nightly executes a script to set himself to low power mode
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
yeah idk why people represent him as an engineer or having present-day programming knowledge, he was in the web 1.0 years with a group making online yellow pages type of crap and selling those off for a couple years before starting one of the paypal predecessors, and by that point he was already the financial backer
― mh, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/EHkHs1U75X pic.twitter.com/GMt2XYBt6s— Elvis The Alien (@ElvisTheAlienTV) May 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
I imagine that there are some percentage of competent, rational people in positions of authority at Tesla, and they are doing their damnedest to run things normally despite having a despotic CEO operating by whim. I see the WFH thing same as the Pride thing, you maintain sane policies and just sort of cross your fingers and hope he moves on to another shiny object before he actually take any actions behind his pronouncements and tweets. All that being said, the cultishness and sketchiness of Tesla probably mean that the ratio of competence and rationality is lower than in other comparable companies.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
isn't this the guy who wants to work remotely from mars
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
two weeks
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
Musks are the reason oligarchs need a Putin. Don’t worry, we’re making one now, but he is still currently a low-level (fascist) bureaucrat/officer right now. For all of Trump’s bullshit, he cannot Putin, he’s yeltsin and will need an out/rescue.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 June 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
dud
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
self parody
Elon Musk says the humanoid robot known as Optimus or Tesla Bot may be up and running within months https://t.co/HLBhM5bxtz— Bloomberg (@business) June 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
ELIMINATES DANGEROUS, REPETITIVE, BORING TASKSHUMANS
― life is a highway to the danger zone (PBKR), Friday, 3 June 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
Is there any doubt he already has his own sexbot?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 3 June 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
it may be up and running
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 3 June 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
"Super bad"
Musk feels 'super bad' about economy, needs to cut 10% of Tesla jobs
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 June 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
But but the humanoid robot rollout is only months away!!!!! He should be hiring!!
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 June 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
can I make a prediction right now that none of us will ever see this thing in our lifetimes
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
lol in your facehttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716BidTlurL._AC_SL1400_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 June 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
The message, sent on Thursday and titled "pause all hiring worldwide", came two days after the billionaire told staff to return to the workplace or leave
Just leave already, the robots will build each other and work 150 hours a week and they don't even care if the plant is racist
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Lies. I just updated mine while driving my Cybertruck through The Boring Company tunnel to the airport this morning!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
(should we be worried that the MiBro Supabad is a 'choking hazard'?)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
im McLovin it
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
choking hazard in the sense that it may decide to start choking you
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
that's what I mean!! it has claws
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, June 3, 2022 9:49 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
id bet theyre not even actually working on it its just end stage musk hype, hes run out of things to hype up, you can only say full self driving is two years away for so long before people lose interest
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
yeah he's like an inexplicably popular hacky af sci-fi author now
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Wish these creepy, terminally online Musk stans got into like, Asimov, instead.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
saw a thread on twitter where someone posted screens of musk critical threads on various nerd sites reddit etc they said the stans are still around but the tide seems to have turned against him
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
well he's dicking around with twitter instead of space stations, of course they're gonna start drifting away
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
def a bad sign when Biden is landing zings
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
suspect also the hard right political turn prob didnt sit that well with a lot of people xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
his name was brought up at the record store the other day and the responses were "I am so fucking sick of hearing about that whiny idiot" and "I hope his rocket blows up with him inside" which is uh not how people were talking about him a couple years ago
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
xpyeah I imagine a lot of his core stans are the kind of people who bristle at everything being "political"
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
he shouldve stayed in his lane, how unfortunate
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
also you can only promise the moon and not deliver so many times before people get fed up
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
yeah scamming is fundamentally unsustainable, feel like he couldve or maybe still can thread the needle where he scams to keep the tesla stock price high long enough to reap the benefits but then at some point it becomes a normal profitable company with a normal stock price, but idk its prob not in his nature
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, June 3, 2022 12:25 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love Asimov but I'll bet he'd be the most annoying man on centenarian Twitter if he were alive today
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
Skip ahead to 6 minutes and you can see how that would have played out in full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYMYPTNV8A
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 June 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
holy shit this is comedy that could not be more narrowcast directly at me, thank you
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link