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178 points rawgabbit | 5 comments | 18 Nov 24 04:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Culonavirus ◴[18 Nov 24 05:25 UTC] No.42169929[source]▶
Funny seeing a post about these as that's what I was recently reminded of when reading this post:

https://x.com/DOGE/status/1857076831104434289

("80+ hours per week" ... what kind of a psycho even writes this down and puts it out there as if it was normal in any way...)

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raverbashing ◴[18 Nov 24 05:36 UTC] No.42169979[source]▶
This is what every employee of Musk's companies should look forward to

That's what their ideal compensation and workload be if their boss would have their way

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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[18 Nov 24 08:56 UTC] No.42170834[source]▶
The thing is, Musk claims to work that hard himself (or more), but the difference is that he is a direct beneficiary and earns millions per hour. Whereas a regular employee earns X amount per month, that's it. Maybe some scraps in stock market value, but one of Musk's tweets has more of an impact on those than a career of 80 hour work weeks would of any employee.
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2. rsynnott ◴[18 Nov 24 10:59 UTC] No.42171344[source]▶
Also, one might be forgiven for doubting him on that; unless he's counting 'painfully stupid tweets' as 'work', the sheer volume of them would call the _possibility_ of this into question.
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3. lesuorac ◴[18 Nov 24 12:33 UTC] No.42171821[source]▶
I think you wouldn't be forgiven if you don't cast doubt.

The guy runs 6 independent companies (at least their stock is!). There aren't 6*80 hours in a week.

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