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[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 252 points 3 months ago

I agree! If Elon musk cannot show up to his offices at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and Washington for 8 hours Monday-Friday, he should be fired without severance as CEO or co-chair of his government department.

[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

Rules for thee, not for me.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 193 points 3 months ago

Unless Musk somehow copied himself several times, he is working remote for most of his companies each day.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 134 points 3 months ago

ROFL.

That's hilarious. You actually think Musk works?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Sadly, tweeting is part of his job of owning Twitter.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

naw. that's him trying to cosplay as a human.

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[-] auzy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He does some work.

Don't forget the shitty sub he designed

Guessing he designed the "Hyperloop" too. Ie. The single car wide tunnel that is prone to jam after a car fails and it's claustrophobic

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[-] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 166 points 3 months ago

"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome". this is and was always the reason american businesses were eager to force everybody back tp work. eat the rich.

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 148 points 3 months ago

Fuck you both

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 131 points 3 months ago

Then they aren't really about efficiency, are they? When properly set up, WFH for office work is very effective and efficient.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago

But think of the billions of dollars of now unused office space. That's horrible for real estate pricing, which is where many of these fucks are invested.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

And billions of barrels of oil no longer being used and going to waste from all the travel not happening and extra heat needed.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

It's not even a real estate issue sometimes. I worked in an office in an industrial facility- printing custom boxes. Everyone in an office job was on a hybrid schedule. No one's job required them to be at the office. All conversations were by Slack, all meetings were by Zoom even if we were all in the office. They could have knocked down the office space and put in at least two more industrial printers. Considering how backed up we got around Christmas, that would have helped them.

Some of this is just old assholes who think people need to be in the office all the time so they can watch them or something. I don't know.

At least they didn't make me wear a tie.

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[-] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

they already said it themselves: "Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome" so no, it was never about efficiency. at all.

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Don't you love when someone from outside talks big shit pretending to know what YOUR job is and determining its not needed?

Almost like firing people based on code written didn't backfire last time..

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Agreed 100%. I used to work a hybrid schedule and I was much more efficient when I was at home and could be both relaxed and not distracted or annoyed by coworkers.

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 86 points 3 months ago

At least they're open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 52 points 3 months ago

Do you think our tax bills will drop if they succeed in forcing these million employees to quit?

They said they want to run the government like a business, and it looks like that's what they're pursuing. Unfortunately, that just means they'll give us the lowest quality service at the highest possible price.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

They said they want to run the government like a business,

In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.

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[-] Sabin10@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago

So the government telling businesses how they have to operate is small government now?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I assume they mean all government positions. Hey look at that it's in the headline

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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago

god I fucking hate these people. Pure fucking hatred.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 72 points 2 months ago

You got to love this. The Pentagon just failed its 7th audit in a row. It has a budget of $1tr. And yet the cost savings team decides that penny pinching by making life harder for workers is where the real savings are to be found. Not the giant black hole of finance which is the military industrial complex.

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Noooo shhhhh, we're not supposed to talk about HOW THE PENTAGON HAS NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT. We're supposed to be talking about the border, come on people, get it together.

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 69 points 3 months ago

Anyone wanna bet on how many days Trump is at Mar-a-Lago during his presidency?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Honestly, I'll be surprised if he spends more than a few days at the White House.

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[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

Remember when he complained about how many days of vacation Obama took, then took more than that in half as many years?

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[-] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago

So, he and his cabinet will be working 8 hours a day at least 5 days a week in DC ? Can we get that in written please ?

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Maybe not in DC, but don't underestimate how many hours most of these psychopaths actually work. They do come to work (maybe not in DC, but to some office somewhere) and work for 100 hours a week, because they place no value on anything other than work. You can fault them for many things, but billionaires are almost always true psychopaths with no concept of anything beyond working to achieve power.

Trump is a different story. He'll say the golf course is his office, where he makes his deals.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

You can fault them for many things, but billionaires are almost always true psychopaths with no concept of anything beyond working to achieve power.

I can definitely fault them for that

[-] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Disagree. When you look at their schedules a lot of work hours are actually like lunch meetings or golf trips or whatever they need to do to justify networking without actual work.

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 57 points 3 months ago

Working from home for all jobs that it is compatible with should be a mandate to help lower the amount of gas necessary for commuting.

[-] numbermess@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago

Yep but that means you're not buying gas, which is a crime

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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 56 points 3 months ago

Saying the quiet part out loud again.

They believe that us not being forced to do what they want simply because they want it is a "privilege," and one that they can and will just arbitrarily decree to be null and void.

That says pretty much everything you meed to know about what they really think about everyone other than themselves.

And ironically enough, what they think is that they themselves are privileged.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

why federal employees and not the private sector? oh right you want to fire half of the first group.

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[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago

So they'll be coming in every day to their offices in Washington right?

...right?

[-] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 14 points 2 months ago

It's interesting they have multiple offices. Offices they're already not in. If there was a time for a general strike it is forever ago.

[-] evergreen@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Guy who sells cars wants people to need cars.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

The asswipes, Elon and Vivek, own several empty office buildings.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 months ago

I liked the meme posted a month ago...

"Great. I get to delete my work email and collaboration apps from my phone"

Musk made a rant last year interview that "It is immoral for you to work from home if people building your car, or delivering your food cannot". As an employer, you have the option to pay more for extra expenses/time involved in coming to office if that is super important to you.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

I'm not going to take lessons in morality from Mr. I-Promote-Nazis-On-My-Website

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

But there's literally no reason to end that if staying home still gets work done

[-] Deway@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

It doesn't give the same feeling of power to the people in charge if they don't see the ~~drones~~ workers sweat.

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[-] Gerprimus@feddit.org 23 points 2 months ago

How many days do you think it will take until he calls for unions to be declared illegal?

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[-] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

We owe commercial real estate investors exactly jacksh’t. This is, at least in part, about securing income for commercial landlords. Their “jobs” aren’t any more precious than anyone else’s jobs that are being impacted hard by this changing era. If they would like to fill their buildings, they can fork over some cash to convert parts of them to housing.

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[-] greenfish@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I contract for uscis. It's fully distributed, there's no way to enforce this without crippling the agency. So it would hobble the mass deportation plan. Very curious how this might turn out

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[-] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

"iT's Up To ThE sTaTes!!!1!"

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Why? I think businesses should be left alone to decide.

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