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[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 259 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree! If Elon musk cannot show up to his offices at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and Washington for 8 hours Monday-Friday, he should be fired without severance as CEO or co-chair of his government department.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

Rules for thee, not for me.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 194 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unless Musk somehow copied himself several times, he is working remote for most of his companies each day.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 136 points 1 month ago (5 children)

ROFL.

That's hilarious. You actually think Musk works?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sadly, tweeting is part of his job of owning Twitter.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

naw. that's him trying to cosplay as a human.

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[–] auzy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

He does some work.

Don't forget the shitty sub he designed

Guessing he designed the "Hyperloop" too. Ie. The single car wide tunnel that is prone to jam after a car fails and it's claustrophobic

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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He probably considered designing the cyber truck to be work.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He got to pick the color of the paint.

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[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 165 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome". this is and was always the reason american businesses were eager to force everybody back tp work. eat the rich.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 151 points 1 month ago

Fuck you both

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 131 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Then they aren't really about efficiency, are they? When properly set up, WFH for office work is very effective and efficient.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But think of the billions of dollars of now unused office space. That's horrible for real estate pricing, which is where many of these fucks are invested.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

And billions of barrels of oil no longer being used and going to waste from all the travel not happening and extra heat needed.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's not even a real estate issue sometimes. I worked in an office in an industrial facility- printing custom boxes. Everyone in an office job was on a hybrid schedule. No one's job required them to be at the office. All conversations were by Slack, all meetings were by Zoom even if we were all in the office. They could have knocked down the office space and put in at least two more industrial printers. Considering how backed up we got around Christmas, that would have helped them.

Some of this is just old assholes who think people need to be in the office all the time so they can watch them or something. I don't know.

At least they didn't make me wear a tie.

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[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they already said it themselves: "Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome" so no, it was never about efficiency. at all.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't you love when someone from outside talks big shit pretending to know what YOUR job is and determining its not needed?

Almost like firing people based on code written didn't backfire last time..

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At least they're open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you think our tax bills will drop if they succeed in forcing these million employees to quit?

They said they want to run the government like a business, and it looks like that's what they're pursuing. Unfortunately, that just means they'll give us the lowest quality service at the highest possible price.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They said they want to run the government like a business,

In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago

god I fucking hate these people. Pure fucking hatred.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 73 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You got to love this. The Pentagon just failed its 7th audit in a row. It has a budget of $1tr. And yet the cost savings team decides that penny pinching by making life harder for workers is where the real savings are to be found. Not the giant black hole of finance which is the military industrial complex.

[–] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Noooo shhhhh, we're not supposed to talk about HOW THE PENTAGON HAS NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT. We're supposed to be talking about the border, come on people, get it together.

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[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (7 children)

So, he and his cabinet will be working 8 hours a day at least 5 days a week in DC ? Can we get that in written please ?

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anyone wanna bet on how many days Trump is at Mar-a-Lago during his presidency?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'll be surprised if he spends more than a few days at the White House.

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Remember when he complained about how many days of vacation Obama took, then took more than that in half as many years?

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So the government telling businesses how they have to operate is small government now?

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I assume they mean all government positions. Hey look at that it's in the headline

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 59 points 1 month ago

Saying the quiet part out loud again.

They believe that us not being forced to do what they want simply because they want it is a "privilege," and one that they can and will just arbitrarily decree to be null and void.

That says pretty much everything you meed to know about what they really think about everyone other than themselves.

And ironically enough, what they think is that they themselves are privileged.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 57 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Working from home for all jobs that it is compatible with should be a mandate to help lower the amount of gas necessary for commuting.

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep but that means you're not buying gas, which is a crime

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

why federal employees and not the private sector? oh right you want to fire half of the first group.

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So they'll be coming in every day to their offices in Washington right?

...right?

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 14 points 1 month ago

It's interesting they have multiple offices. Offices they're already not in. If there was a time for a general strike it is forever ago.

[–] evergreen@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Guy who sells cars wants people to need cars.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

The asswipes, Elon and Vivek, own several empty office buildings.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I liked the meme posted a month ago...

"Great. I get to delete my work email and collaboration apps from my phone"

Musk made a rant last year interview that "It is immoral for you to work from home if people building your car, or delivering your food cannot". As an employer, you have the option to pay more for extra expenses/time involved in coming to office if that is super important to you.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not going to take lessons in morality from Mr. I-Promote-Nazis-On-My-Website

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But there's literally no reason to end that if staying home still gets work done

[–] Deway@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn't give the same feeling of power to the people in charge if they don't see the ~~drones~~ workers sweat.

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[–] Gerprimus@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How many days do you think it will take until he calls for unions to be declared illegal?

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[–] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We owe commercial real estate investors exactly jacksh’t. This is, at least in part, about securing income for commercial landlords. Their “jobs” aren’t any more precious than anyone else’s jobs that are being impacted hard by this changing era. If they would like to fill their buildings, they can fork over some cash to convert parts of them to housing.

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[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

"iT's Up To ThE sTaTes!!!1!"

[–] greenfish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I contract for uscis. It's fully distributed, there's no way to enforce this without crippling the agency. So it would hobble the mass deportation plan. Very curious how this might turn out

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back to the grind slaves. /S

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