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JP234 said:

Is anyone surprised that people who can work for a psychopathic a-hole are a-holes themselves? The boss a-hole has already crapped out and flushed anyone who isn't his brand of a-holery, and not just in Tesla. He should wind up just like his hero, Nikola Tesla, a con man/hustler with one good idea and a lifetime of bad decisions leaving him alone, friendless, staggering drunk on his own Kool-Aid.

Can you provide us a list of your accomplishments? I will say 100% certainty you have done little to nothing that is even noteworthy whereas Musk, whom you describe psychopathic a-hole, will remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history:

• Tesla: Against all odds he created a successful car company and brought EV's to the masses. No other car company has been able to come close to what he has done and they are established manufacturers with everything to make a car in place. They chose to get passed by a newcomer. I still do not have much hope for Ford or GM and Toyota has mostly sat the quest for EV's out. I am not sure how anyone will catch Teslain the near term as he is years ahead and not letting off of the gas.
• SpaceX: First privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to put a commercial satellite in orbit. First private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. First private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Has rockets that return to their takeoff spot. Prior to SpaceX Lockheed Martin and Boeing sat on fat, competition free contracts with NASA delivering the status quo, with no hope of every doing what Musk did.
• Starlink: Created a company delivering Internet to numerous area and countries that stood zero change of getting high speed service. The market leader prior to Starlink was Hughes Net which pales in comparison to Starlink even though it is early stage.
• PayPal: Cofounder.
• Add in battery production, work on solar and probably some stuff I cannot think of.

Note that this is more than one good idea. That is four game-changing companies he founded, co-founded or leads. As close to Steve Jobs as anyone has been in a long time. No question his behavior is questionable, but he has gotten results. If you have someone to compare him to please let us all know.

No one uses Bing with or without ChatGPT. The name alone prevents me from using it. I’ll stick with Google. 

Would have been great to have bought the Sonos company. They have products that are popular. 

The people who waste their time doing something like this that is of no benefit need to redirect their time to doing something productive. There are more decisions that go into a product beyond cosmetic ones. One consideration could be cooling and another could be packaging or the functionality of the hinge in terms of its tilt capabilities. The guy who swapped the lightning port for a USB-C port was a colossal waste of time with no redeeming value as it could have been done by Apple if they wanted to do it. 

WARN probably not necessary if he can show company was in a serious financial condition. From what I saw everyone received a 3-month severance package which is way more than most us would ever get. I’m self-employed so my severance is zero!!

Like most companies since the recovery from 2008 started there are too many employees working at most large companies. Definitely people working with little accountability or oversight or performing unnecessary jobs. That is what happens in good times. I’ll add that most people know if their job is absolutely necessary for their company to function, but there maybe exceptions for self-consumed people who think their work is vital. If you work in engineering you were much more likely to stay employed than someone in ethics, diversity, content management, etc.