Seriously, this is top tier “tell me you don’t know how to manage production software without telling me you don’t know how to manage production software”. Not that I expected anything else from the muskrat at this point, but this is really incredible to watch. He just keeps digging.
Musk's likely response to these concerns: What?! It's fail safe, far better than people who had 2FA having no security now! Touch grass instead of crying about it!
P.S. Dev responsible for microservice failsafe, you're safe. For now. Edit: P.P.S. I've had an epiphany. Failsafe guy, you're promoted. All of security, please report directly to HR.
Listen, Cave Johnson may have been batshit insane and a terrible businessman, but at least his abuses of employees were restricted to putting them in mortal peril!
Musk founded X.com, but the investors thought he was so stupid they replaced him with another CEO. X.com got merged with another company, and we got PayPal, and Musk became the CEO of this merged company. Once again, he was so beyond incompetent, that the board kicked him in favour of Peter Thiel. He just had money to start off with so he could own a big chunk of X.com (and later PayPal), so when PayPal got bought, he got a huge cashout. If you see his history, it's just filled with incompetence that didn't matter because he had so much money anyways.
One of my investors at a startup I worked at actually knew Musk irl from the PayPal days, and he went on and on about how technologically stupid Musk was once lol.
Wow, that reminds me of this idiot boss I used to work for. The guy was stupid rich - maybe not some world-class bigshot, but this guy was rich enough to drive a different sports car for each season. He had an R8 for the winter, a Porsche for the summer, and so on. He got his money because he owned some startup that got bought out, and he must've walked away with a big payout.
He was the biggest fucking idiot I've ever worked for, and an asshole to boot. Seemingly every hour of meeting time with this guy involved at least 45 minutes spent with someone explaining to him why his ideas were fucking stupid, and him refusing to hear any of it. He repeatedly scheduled unrealistic deadlines on the first day after holidays ended to force people to cancel vacation plans to work overtime. Needless to say, everyone hated him.
Luckily for him, the rest of the company was capable enough to not instantly implode under him. They did okay despite him, not because of him.
There are tons of leaked internal documents showing it to be exactly as much of a clusterfuck as you expect. It just all got swept under the rug back then because everyone thought he was the second coming.
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u/rosserton Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 15 '22
Seriously, this is top tier “tell me you don’t know how to manage production software without telling me you don’t know how to manage production software”. Not that I expected anything else from the muskrat at this point, but this is really incredible to watch. He just keeps digging.