Drawing a line in the sand!
01.06.2022 - 20:33 / variety.com
Wilson Chapman editorElon Musk is demanding that Tesla employees cease remote work or be fired, in two emails sent to staff of the electric car company on Tuesday.In the emails, which were leaked to electric car news website Electrek, Musk stated that all employees must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or depart the company. He also wrote that he will review potential exceptions directly, but only for “particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible.”Musk reiterated the statement in a follow-up email, specifying that the office must be a main Tesla office and not an off-shoot location.
“If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned,” reads the memo. Musk also took digs at similar companies that continue to allow work from home.
“There are of course companies that don’t require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It’s been a while,” he wrote.Although Musk has not made an official public statement regarding Tesla’s work from home policy, he appeared to confirm the news on Twitter Wednesday morning. In response to a tweet that said “Hey Elon…any additional comment to people who think coming into work is an antiquated concept?,” Musk replied: “They should pretend to work somewhere else.”They should pretend to work somewhere else— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2022This isn’t the first time Musk has demonstrated a low opinion of work from home protocols.
Drawing a line in the sand!
A tweet detailing the centibillioniaire’s controversial theory currently boasted over 425,000 likes as of Tuesday morning.“Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so,” tweeted Musk, 50, adding in a follow-up tweet, “Or perhaps social media in general.” In the past, the Chinese video-sharing app has been blamed for spawning dumb and dangerous social media trends from the potentially deadly skull-breaker challenge to the slap your teacher game. The SpaceX boss’ remarks are a 180 from comments he’d made in a recent virtual meeting with Twitter employees following his $44 billion bid to acquire the social media platform.
Billionaire Elon Musk's transgender child has filed a request for a name change over gender identity in an effort to cut ties with their father. "Gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form," Musk's child gave as reasoning for the petition. Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, attends the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020.
screenshot shared on Twitter by @KnowNothingTV shows legal documents filed in Los Angeles County for a petition to change a name.TMZ reported that the legal documents, which are also in recognition of a change of gender and issuance of birth certificate, were filed on behalf of 18-year-old Xavier Musk, the name she was given at birth.The official reason given is stated as: “Gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”TMZ also reported that her full name will be Vivian Jenna Wilson, taking her mother’s last name, and that “she wants to be recognized as female.”The petition was reportedly filed in April, not long after Vivian turned 18, according to Yahoo! Entertainment.Musk has seven children: Griffin, Vivian, Kai, Saxon, Damian, whom he had with Canadian author Justine Wilson, who were married from 2000 to 2008, and X AE A-XI and Exa Dark Sideræl, whom he shares with singer Grimes.
Tesla and SpaceX founder and would-be Twitter owner Elon Musk fielded questions from employees of the social media company today in a virtual town hall where he said he’d like to see at least a billion people on the platform and was a bit ominous when it came to questions on job cuts.
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Musk was accused of making false statements and engaging in market manipulation by Twitter shareholders. On Monday, Musk accused Twitter of “actively resisting” his purported efforts to find out how much of its user base is made up of spam-bots – claiming in a letter the Tesla CEO sent to Twitter that this could be grounds for terminating the purchase agreement.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA new study estimates that upwards of 10% of Twitter active accounts post spam content — double the company’s own claims.The report from U.K.-based data analytics and consulting firm GlobalData comes as Elon Musk, the billionaire Twitter power-user, has threatened to nix his $44 billion deal for the social network over the question of the prevalence of spam and fake accounts on Twitter. On Monday, Musk’s lawyers sent a letter to Twitter alleging the company was in “clear material breach” of the acquisition agreement because Twitter has refused to furnish information backing up its claim that fake/spam accounts represent less than 5% of daily active users.A Twitter rep declined to comment.
In his latest attack on Twitter, delivered via a letter from his lawyer, Elon Musk accused the company of “refusing to comply” with his requests about bots and other issues, and threatened to pull his $44 billion takeover offer.
Elon Musk, according to Hollywood Life. The rumours first began to swirl on February 17, when a photo of Musk in LA exiting his G650ER private jet —worth a cool £50 million — with a “beautiful red-haired mystery woman” surfaced. One month later, Musk’s ex Grimes, 34, revealed on the cover of Vanity Fair that she had welcomed a second child into the world with the Tesla entrepreneur via a surrogate.
Johnny Depp's $50million (£40million) defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard has finally come to a close after their lawyers delivered closing arguments on Friday.MORE: Inside Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's 'intensely passionate' 15-month marriageWhile the jury deliberates on a verdict, Amber's ex-boyfriend Elon Musk – whom she dated in 2017 after her split from Johnny and just a couple of months after accusing him of domestic abuse – has had his say on the trial.WATCH: Kate Moss testifies at Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trialElon shared his reaction on Twitter in a reply to MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, who shared his takeaways from the trial, which included: "Fame is one hell of a drug (for some)" and "Psychiatrists & lawyers come in drastically varying levels of skill."Responding to Lex, Elon wrote: "I hope they both move on. At their best, they are each incredible."READ: What Johnny Depp's lawyer REALLY said as he celebrated Amber Heard's Kate Moss commentMORE: The real reason Johnny Depp REFUSED to look at Amber Heard during trialAmber and Elon met on the set of the 2013 movie, Machete Kills, where they swiftly became friends but only started dating several years later.
The Kid LAROI has revealed the financial advice he was given by Elon Musk at a Saturday Night Live afterparty.The Australian singer sat down for an interview with radio hosts Fitzy and Wippa, where he spoke about his rise in the music world, fake friends and writing songs about his girlfriend, as well as his few minutes with the Tesla founder.“He’s like, actually really down-to-earth he’s just like, hanging out. I felt like he was approachable, you know, enough to ask him something like that.
Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, attended the Sports Illustrated Launch party at the Hard Rock Hotel in Florida. The 74-year-old South African and Canadian model looked elegant with an outift that highlighted pastel colors.Grimes clears the record on her relationship with Elon MuskBillionaire Elon Musk claims he couch surfs among friends after girlfriend Grimes said he lives ‘below the poverty line’Musk wore a long silk dress that she paired with a coat with different shades of pastel colors.