The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.
10 cars were broken into and 5 people were robbed while the police attended this matter. What a great deployment!
Seems like a good place to remind people that the police do not prevent break-ins, robberies, or muggings. They just show up after-the-fact and do little to nothing to get people’s stuff back.
The only thing you can count on a cop doing after a robbery is trying to convince the victim there’s no point in filing a report.
Because they know they won’t solve it, and if there’s no report there officially isn’t a case to count against them as unsolved.
There’s also the off chance they arrest you or shoot your dog
The dog shooting is mainly an ATF thing no?
Honestly, this is a comedy that needs to be seen to be believed.
This has to be false. If only ‘er’ remained, the ‘Twitt’ would have been removed. But the twit is still in charge.
“er” is right !
Nah, it’s completely inaccurate because the “twit” is missing!
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The “amazimg” Lorenz, is maybe (like U) an amazing loser.
I’m sure Musk is personally responsibly those things. I also heard he failed to clean bathrooms in this building.
I’m getting not liking him, but this blind brainless hate it’s ridiculous.
A bad CEO/Company owner trickles down to everything under them in the company. They pass major decisions or budgets (or lack thereof) that work their way down to everything if not immediately then over time. Toilets not getting cleaned probably comes down to people either not getting paid or being fired to avoid having to pay them, resulting in either no custodial staff or insufficient staff. There’s no way to defend him about this.
Yes, Musk is responsible because it was his decision to change the name.
I genuinely don’t get why people hate-follow these guys. If I don’t like someone I block them and move on. The last thing I want to do is talk about them all day every day with my friends and pat eachother on the back for being so smart ourselves.
Well, if he decides on Sunday night that the logo will be changed on Monday morning and he’s not taking no for an answer, that leaves pretty little time and wiggle room for his employees to actually get permissions and stuff in time.
To anyone interested about what’s really like to deal with this man, I highly recommend giving this a read: https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd
“Again, I cannot stress enough how much of the company culture was oriented around managing this one guy.” I can’t decide between wanting to have a work environment like this for once for the laughs, or not wanting to act in front of him as if he’s a person to be respected. But I guess the collegial cohesion is great in this one, if you only have to tiptoe around a single person and everyone makes fun of it.
There are multiple stories like that from several people.
Apparently there were people at Tesla who were effectively employed to get fired when he was in one of his moods.
And if you read enough of the stories it all comes down to basically a single PA who kept him away from important things. And that person stopped working for him shortly before the public realized what an asshole he is.
And after learning that, I can’t stop wondering who they work for now… And I want to see a show based on their biography.
That’s a great thought. Are there any insane people that recently haven’t been as loud as usual? Which “important” person had lowered thier IM A GENIUS decibel level and no one noticed? That PA could be the reason.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Zuckerberg hired them.
The memes about him have been a lot less derisive, and recently they are semi-positive towards him/meta, people were reasonable in the response to his green screen grilling video and there are jokes about them changing the Threads logo high up on lemmy, etc. And he registered an X logo as trademark to potentially counter Musk.
But honestly we might never know. I doubt they went to work for someone as self-destructive as Musk.
Man, I was strangely impressed with Tumblr these days until I scrolled two.posts down and it froze me out because I wasn’t signed in
Ugh, I hate that. Twitter is worse, but those unclosable popups are a good way to make sure I never create an account on a site. I have no problem with the suggestion, but make it optional.
Really? It didn’t do that to me. I clicked continue reading and went pretty far down the comments.
I’ve never even been to tumbler before so I certainly wasn’t signed in :)
I’ve seen this story several times now, and it’s probably true. Unfortunately there’s nothing else but the anecdotal story and I wish we had more corroboration from other former employees.
It seems like this gets even more amusing about twice a day. Anyone wanna guess what might happen next?
I would only be very minorly surprised if Musk is arrested in the middle of a small town in Louisiana, covered in his own shit and clumsily trying to hump a crocodile. And yes, I know that crocs aren’t native to Louisiana.
At some point Musk will get arrested. For what I haven’t decided yet.
Something sexual, I think. Even as recently as a few months ago, I would have said “he’s a jackass, but he’s not that stupid,” but now, well…
He already sexually harassed some poor flight attendant, and literally a day before made some kind of stupid announcement about being a Republican as some sort of stupid way to dodge it
Sounds plausible to me.
What a fucking joke lmao
Thanks for the heads up on Taylor. I am now following her!
Taken out of context, that sounds creepy AF.
Can we now start pronouncing X as ‘errrr’ when referring to the company? It would be good not to taint the good name of the letter entirely.
And it does say ‘er’ on the side of not-his-building.
I like the idea of calling it “ten”.
I like the idea of never referring to it again
I call it Xitter, using the Chinese pronunciation of Xi.
Brb gotta take a xit
That’s gonna mess with Elon’s baseball stats. Now he has an er.
Definitely an unforced er.
You can’t make this stuff up, this is hilarious and beyond apropos
At this point it sounds like intentional.
You need to have permits to change signs on your own building?
It’s the heavy machinery required to do it that’s the problem. This is also not Elon Musk’s building, but a building Twitter rents. The building management company were the ones who called the police.
The way I heard it elsewhere (Google should help), Twitter/Elon actually had the necessary and correct permits (for using heavy machinery on the street/sidewalk and redirecting traffic around it).
Unfortunately, that detail was not correctly communicated to building security, who called the police believing there was no permit.
By the time the misunderstanding could be cleared up, the workers & heavy machinery had… “vacated premises” already, leaving the work in its half-finished state.
Do you have a source on that?
Ah, here it is.
Ah that explains. Didn’t know he was renting the building.
Companions like this very rarely own property. They rent space from the property management companies that bought the land and constructed the buildings.
Yup. If you own a building, you need to pay someone to maintain it. If you rent a building, you get all of that in the contract and it’s one less thing to manage.
Also, you can relatively change buildings if you need more space, whereas if you own it, you need to sell it first.
Most of those IT platform companies only rent their premises as it helps improve the balance sheet and quarterly results by moving “capital expenses” into “operational costs”
I believe part of it is that managing huge buildings is actually a pain in the ass and requires specialized experience to do efficiently, so many companies end up saving money by not owning their buildings.
Well that, and the fact it costs huge amounts of money to own land in cities.
Forgot about that shit. The guy’s such a scumbag. Hasn’t paid rent since he moved in and then tried to renovate? He seriously needs to be knocked down a few billion pegs.
