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| james_s:
--- Quote from: MK14 on December 08, 2022, 01:27:36 am ---Would I be joking, if I said, Musk has now had beds, installed in some of the offices? A joke, surely? Must be a joke, right ..... https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/07/musk_twitter_offices/ --- End quote --- There were quite a few guys at Microsoft that had sofas in their office when I worked there back in the late 90s-mid 2000's. The company didn't put them there but it was fairly common for people to work long hours to hit deadlines, especially anything that needed to ship in time for the holiday season and sleeping in one's office or taking an afternoon nap was not uncommon. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 08, 2022, 01:56:36 am --- --- Quote from: MK14 on December 08, 2022, 01:27:36 am ---Would I be joking, if I said, Musk has now had beds, installed in some of the offices? A joke, surely? Must be a joke, right ..... https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/07/musk_twitter_offices/ --- End quote --- There were quite a few guys at Microsoft that had sofas in their office when I worked there back in the late 90s-mid 2000's. The company didn't put them there but it was fairly common for people to work long hours to hit deadlines, especially anything that needed to ship in time for the holiday season and sleeping in one's office or taking an afternoon nap was not uncommon. --- End quote --- Extra curricular midnight couch surfing is a bit of a dirty word in our nation's capital this year resulting in some nasty he said she said. Not that any software coder is at risk of getting laid.. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 08, 2022, 05:42:44 am ---Extra curricular midnight couch surfing is a bit of a dirty word in our nation's capital this year resulting in some nasty he said she said. Not that any software coder is at risk of getting laid.. --- End quote --- There are quite a few women in tech these days, but back in the early days of my career it was extremely male dominated. |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 08, 2022, 01:56:36 am ---There were quite a few guys at Microsoft that had sofas in their office when I worked there back in the late 90s-mid 2000's. The company didn't put them there but it was fairly common for people to work long hours to hit deadlines, especially anything that needed to ship in time for the holiday season and sleeping in one's office or taking an afternoon nap was not uncommon. --- End quote --- If Musk pays very well this could be acceptable to some younger folk (or if he offers very good equity?) But the fact is that Meta/Google/Netflix and so on typically run 37 hour work weeks with a fixed salary. And it's well evidenced that people are not generally consistently productive on 60 hour weeks (there are some exceptions but this is generally true). So unless Musk wants to compensate these people $250k+ a year for an entry level SWE then he's gonna have to hire more people. And make the working environment more pleasant, less Musky. The problem is he wants the $150k a year Bay Area engineer but wants twice as much productivity from them as everyone else. And he wants them to do that in the office rather than at home, so add 10 hours of commuting to that as well. |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: PlainName on December 07, 2022, 04:47:06 pm ---Musk has achieved a lot that's defeated many others, made dreams come (more or less) true. But he's a thin-skinned tosser. --- End quote --- Yes, he achieved a lot, which we can account for his Asperger. The simptoms include: - An intense obsession with one or two specific, narrow subjects - Difficulty managing emotions, sometimes leading to verbal or behavioral outbursts, self-injurious behaviors or tantrums - Lack of social finesse Musk got obsessed with electric cars, and that made him successful, because he also had the money for it. He also is obsessed with a lot of other things that are utter failures. And the electric car took like 15 years to become successful, and their only redeeming quality is being "first electric" because they are not very good cars in other ways. So is he very good at solving difficult problems? His engineers are doing that, he just latches on the problem like a pitbull and uses his money to solve them. |
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