Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

[Jimmy Higgins]

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?

What I heard was Interns. Temps, latest hires (less than one year). If you believe that. Then going into the employee files, looking for 'libs'.

It’s not based on quality at all. So we may end up with a smaller workforce but not necessarily (or even likely) a better workforce.

Just the opposite.
Who do you think most likely to leave. Top notch professional people, with experience and credentials, or the rest?
Tom

Both. We saw with the first term that some stuck it out as long as they could, but other people that are professional gave up. As things stood, pay in some of these fields is less than the private sector. The whole reason they were in the Fed to begin with, would be the mission in general.

Create a hostile workplace / workforce, don't recognize (forget reward) merit at all, and seek to fulfill an agenda, instead of fulfilling tasks required as part of the bureaucracy, you've give no one a reason to stay, other than to try to keep the ship from sinking.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Though we all know this isn’t really about “efficiency”.

As if USAID were about aid or democracy,

It can be both of those while also being self-serving.

 

[ZiprHead]

Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his.

The actor and director Ron Howard posted Wednesday on X an article by the news agency Reuters headlined, “Musk’s DOGE cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far.”
An hour later, Elon Musk posted a reply: “I wonder how much money Reuters is getting from the government? Let’s find out.” Before the night’s end, the billionaire leading the Trump administration’s radical cost-cutting campaign was touting what he portrayed as a smoking gun: a screenshot of a U.S. government webpage showing a contract between the Defense Department and Thomson Reuters Special Services for “Active Social Engineering Defense” and “Large Scale Social Deception.”

“Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for ‘large scale social deception,’” Musk proclaimed in an X post that has racked up more than 76,000 shares and 35 million views. “They’re a total scam. Just wow.”

The contract was real, but the Orwellian phrase Musk seized on to suggest a shadowy conspiracy wasn’t what it seems. A slightly closer look would have revealed that the contract, signed during President Donald Trump’s first term, was for help defending against cyberattacks — that is, combating deception, not fueling it. And it went to a separate division of the company, not the news agency.

Musk’s misinterpretation went viral, amplified by Trump as proof of corrupt ties between the “radical left” media and the “deep state.”

The Reuters brouhaha was the latest example of what is quickly becoming a familiar playbook as Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service sweeps through federal agencies for evidence of waste, fraud and corruption. However endemic federal misspending is, Musk has repeatedly misrepresented facts on X to bolster unfounded claims of wrongdoing. Like the U.S. Agency for International Development, Politico and others before it, Reuters has been cast as a villain in a narrative spun by Musk in which nefarious left-wing schemes lurk behind programs he targets for cuts — and those who stand in the way.

 

[unapologetic]

Who do you think most likely to leave.

You are thinking of the buyout. That is only 1%. Most will be fired, regardless of merit.

 

[TomC]

Who do you think most likely to leave.

You are thinking of the buyout. That is only 1%. Most will be fired, regardless of merit.

It was not just the ones getting a buyout.
Another funny fiasco is all the nuclear engineers who got fired. Eviscerating the USA nuclear weapons team.

Were I them, I'd refuse to accept employment without a double in salary and a 5 year contract.
Tom

 

[Shadowy Man]

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?

What I heard was Interns. Temps, latest hires (less than one year). If you believe that. Then going into the employee files, looking for 'libs'.

It’s not based on quality at all. So we may end up with a smaller workforce but not necessarily (or even likely) a better workforce.

Just the opposite.
Who do you think most likely to leave. Top notch professional people, with experience and credentials, or the rest?
Tom

I’m talking about the firings not the retirements (“buyouts”). Those people were likely retiring this year anyway ( based on standard attrition rates).

 

[ideologyhunter]

I know I make a lot of stuff up on this site, but that son of Elon who loitered in the OO during the press conference is named X. That makes Elon less normal than Michael Jackson. I'd take Pillow over X any day.
If they fire everyone, I just want assurance that, if we're attacked by, say, the Chi-Comms, that Elon and Donald will be on the roof of the White House firing AK-47s, backed up by Malaria firing a Glock. And maybe X can learn how to throw grenades.
(BTW, I do have a bit of respect for X, as he actually wiped a booger on the Resolute Desk and may have said, "I want you to shush your mouth" to Trump. If only Lindsey Graham would start doing that. The booger part, I mean.)

 

[Shadowy Man]

From an article another thread about the firing of people overseeing our nuclear weapons:

A source told CNN they believe these individuals were fired because “no one has taken anytime to understand what we do and the importance of our work to the nation’s national security.”

How do you make something more efficient if you don’t even know what it does or how it works?

 

[Elixir]

From an article another thread about the firing of people overseeing our nuclear weapons:

A source told CNN they believe these individuals were fired because “no one has taken anytime to understand what we do and the importance of our work to the nation’s national security.”

How do you make something more efficient if you don’t even know what it does or how it works?

Get rid of it.
It costs money and the only thing our nukes do, is threaten Cheato’s bestie boss Vlad, his lover Kim and his very good friend Xi. He’s better off without his pals feeling threatened.

 

[unapologetic]

Who do you think most likely to leave.

You are thinking of the buyout. That is only 1%. Most will be fired, regardless of merit.

It was not just the ones getting a buyout.
Another funny fiasco is all the nuclear engineers who got fired. Eviscerating the USA nuclear weapons team.

Were I them, I'd refuse to accept employment without a double in salary and a 5 year contract.
Tom

My point was "likely to leave." sounds voluntarily, which most aren't.

 

[KCFlyer]

How do you make something more efficient if you don’t even know what it does or how it works?

They are all about fast. Makes them look efficient. When I worked a project for someone I would ask "do you want it fast or do you want it right".

 

[Shadowy Man]

How do you make something more efficient if you don’t even know what it does or how it works?

They are all about fast. Makes them look efficient. When I worked a project for someone I would ask "do you want it fast or do you want it right".

In theory their cuts will make all of government more efficient. But just cutting in no way necessarily means more efficient. Just as I said before, riding a unicycle is not necessarily more efficient than riding a bicycle just because it has fewer parts.

 

[barbos]

Though we all know this isn’t really about “efficiency”.

As if USAID were about aid or democracy,

It can be both of those while also being self-serving.

Let me said it straight. USAID is not about democracy.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his.

The actor and director Ron Howard posted Wednesday on X an article by the news agency Reuters headlined, “Musk’s DOGE cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far.”
An hour later, Elon Musk posted a reply: “I wonder how much money Reuters is getting from the government? Let’s find out.” Before the night’s end, the billionaire leading the Trump administration’s radical cost-cutting campaign was touting what he portrayed as a smoking gun: a screenshot of a U.S. government webpage showing a contract between the Defense Department and Thomson Reuters Special Services for “Active Social Engineering Defense” and “Large Scale Social Deception.”

“Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for ‘large scale social deception,’” Musk proclaimed in an X post that has racked up more than 76,000 shares and 35 million views. “They’re a total scam. Just wow.”

The contract was real, but the Orwellian phrase Musk seized on to suggest a shadowy conspiracy wasn’t what it seems. A slightly closer look would have revealed that the contract, signed during President Donald Trump’s first term, was for help defending against cyberattacks — that is, combating deception, not fueling it. And it went to a separate division of the company, not the news agency.

Musk’s misinterpretation went viral, amplified by Trump as proof of corrupt ties between the “radical left” media and the “deep state.”

The Reuters brouhaha was the latest example of what is quickly becoming a familiar playbook as Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service sweeps through federal agencies for evidence of waste, fraud and corruption. However endemic federal misspending is, Musk has repeatedly misrepresented facts on X to bolster unfounded claims of wrongdoing. Like the U.S. Agency for International Development, Politico and others before it, Reuters has been cast as a villain in a narrative spun by Musk in which nefarious left-wing schemes lurk behind programs he targets for cuts — and those who stand in the way.

To be fair, Musk did say he wouldn’t get everything right.

 

[bilby]

To be fair, Musk did say he wouldn’t get everything right.

Did he mention whether he plans at some point to get something right?

 

[Shadowy Man]

To be fair, Musk did say he wouldn’t get everything right.

Did he mention whether he plans at some point to get something right?

I don’t think he has plans for that. As far as I can tell.

 

[Shadowy Man]

If he had plans on getting things right he would have hired auditors not computer hackers.

and he would be reporting to Congress not Twitter.

 

[Elixir]

To be fair, Musk did say he wouldn’t get everything right.

Did he mention whether he plans at some point to get something right?

I don’t think he has plans for that. As far as I can tell.

There is a concept of a plan to say he got something right.

 

[barbos]

If he had plans on getting things right he would have hired auditors not computer hackers.

and he would be reporting to Congress not Twitter.

Auditors which were auditing for years and finding nothing?

 

[KCFlyer]

Auditors which were auditing for years and finding nothing?

Because they looked at WHAT the dollars did.....not just the amount. Even mid level companies take longer than 3 weeks to audit. And those auduts result in reports. And those reports are submitted to management (congress) . Then THAT group is the one that decides the actions. There are 3 branches of government. So far, only one is doing anyting and the cowards in congress are afraid to stand up to what Trump is doing