Musk Simps

Even with all the batshit crazy missteps made by Elon Musk since he took over Twitter, his fan-base still defend everything he does. They celebrate when employees get fired and they scorn anyone who dares criticize their real life Iron Man in public. It's almost like they're just as childish and thin skinned as the "big man" himself...

Just a short post today in which I want to briefly mention something about leadership, and how Elon Musk fails miserably at it. Sure, not many people will agree; most have been conditioned to believe that if someone's as rich and successful as Musk, they must be good leaders. Not only that, in the case of Musk specifically millions are convinced that he's an engineer, which he is not, a brilliant programmer, which he is not, and knows a lot about astronautics, which he does not. Musk is not the proverbial rocket scientist, he's just very good at building and maintaining a public image of one. Why do you think Tesla doesn't advertise their cars? Is it because these cars are so exceptionally good? No, of course not; it's because Musk, his public image, his constant presence in the public spotlight, IS the advertisement.

Most of the worth of all his companies is built on that public persona and, also very important, the constant stream of hype he generates around his brands. And somehow the public forgives him when he does not deliver on 90 percent of the hyped-up promises he makes. Where's the Hyperloop? Where are the solar roof tiles he promised? They're nowhere. They're all on the large and growing mountain of forgotten promises by this one-man-hype-factory. But hey, whenever there's a new hype around this real life Tony Stark, his stocks go up, his investors are happy, and the government gives him subsidies. With this in mind, we must not completely rule out the possibility that Musk is tanking Twitter on purpose, whether it's for the hype it generates or possibly to get out of this deal by being able to file bankruptcy.

Musk will be fine though, so let's turn back to his simps, the brain-dead fanboys who would defend his name and honor even if he murders a child. Many comments from these Twitter-jockeys are truly horrible as they literally celebrate when loyal Twitter staff gets fired. One specific firing that's been played out in public for everyone to see says a lot about Musk, his leadership skills (or lack thereof), and about how little his simps understand about leadership and its effects on company culture. I'm talking about the firing of Eric Frohnhoefer a few days ago. Why did he get fired? Because he dared correct Elon Musk in public on Twitter. And here's where Elon's simps got it all wrong, and where leadership has failed.

On 13 November Elon tweeted: "Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!" And Eric Frohnhoefer, an Android developer who worked on Twitter for 6 years (an actual engineer), answered: "I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong." Elon then dares Eric to explain what's the real problem, after which Eric produces a series of tweets showing that he knows where the problems are, how they got there, why they got there and how they can be solved by shifting priorities. This reply really showed that Eric, unlike Elon, knows exactly what he's talking about, and it showed Eric was enthusiastic about making the changes needed to speed up Twitter. This is a man you want in your team if the goal is to improve Twitter.

The Musk-rats however immediately started replying to Eric Frohnhoefer that he shouldn't correct his boss in public, that he should have used private mail, and that he should expect repercussions. "How dare you tell off your boss in public?!" These people really haven't the faintest idea of what they're talking about, much like our fake Tony Stark here. You see, Eric responding in public is perfectly in line with the company culture set by Elon Musk himself. As a boss you can correct or fire your employees in several ways; you can call them into your office and do it privately, or you can tell them off on the floor in front of all the other employees, or you can post a video on YouTube announcing it for all the world to see. As the boss, you set the company culture, you set the example you expect your associates or employees to live up to.

Elon Musk has fired thousands of Twitter employees in public, without notice. He's criticized, belittled and humiliated others, in public. Elon has created the company culture in which everything is done in public, and he only shows what a thin skinned man-baby he is by firing Eric. And he'd already shown how incredibly thin his skin is by suspending the parody accounts that made fun of him: humor is legal again on Twitter s long as Elon's not the target. You can read about that in my post about Elon's Twitter Nonsense.

Frohnhoefer appears to be the first of several outspoken employees to get the ax. On Tuesday, tech publication Platformer reported that 20 engineers who had criticized Musk in internal Slack channels had been fired via email.

"We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated effective immediately. Your recent behavior has violated company policy," now-former workers were told via email, according to screenshots posted on Twitter.
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What makes this all even more pathetic is the fact that right after he fired Eric, he followed his advice anyway and started deleting some superfluous features. Elon Musk has a reputation of picking fights on Twitter. He claims to work 100 hours per week, but that can only be true if he counts the countless hours he's tweeting the nonsensical memes that have endeared him with his die-hard fan-base. To discuss all the stupid and damning things Elon's said and done since he's Twitter's sole owner would take many pages, and it's only been two weeks... I'll leave you with a video with a compilation of and comments on some of the replies by the Elon Musk fan-base. And maybe also take a look at the video titled Elon Musk is a thin skinned CEO: an explanation about company culture and how it's set by management and leadership. It also discusses in-depth the public discussion between Eric Frohnhoefer and Elon Musk, and how it's been handled by Elon.

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