Hypothetically speaking, would you work for Elon Musk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends. If I work with other engineers and never see Elon, why not.

Remote so you'd never see him or anyone else. I have many reservations: the obvious ethical ones, job security, plus some of the schedule and timing is not ideal. But it is more than I have ever earned in my life, by a lot. I don't "need" the money because I am a frugal person generally without big needs, but I'm also in my current position because I always make the selfless, lower pay, responsible and good work/life balance choices...So am I just avoiding risk at the detriment of myself?

Dear god have some pride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d be worried about getting tried as an accomplice in a few years, so no.

THIS

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No, as a principle, I can't work for somebody who was once an illegal.

[Anonymous]

No way. He's a weirdo and gives “no soul” vibes. Pretty sure he's a cyborg.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you assume the pay is excellent?

Because I know it is (this is an actual job, I am deciding whether to move forward and obviously have huge reservations!)

Why does your post title say "hypothetically" if this is a real situation? You probably won't last long there.

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Anonymous wrote:No, I find Elon labor expectations to be borderline slavery.

Same. I don't want to work on his plantation.

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For the right money, sure. Guy is kooky but a genius.

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Fork no.

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Anonymous wrote:Elon is great. Yes, he’s causing a lot of pain now. But, years from now, historians will likely recognize him as the father of the modern day federal civil service (assuming he is successful at reform).

Ha ha.

No. He will be in prison with his Gen Alpha Nazi henchmen.

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Anonymous wrote:If yes, why? If not, what would make you not want to? Imagine pay is excellent and much better than your current job.

I'm a federal employee. Elon Musk is running the federal government. So, technically I'm already working for Elon.

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Anonymous wrote:If yes, why? If not, what would make you not want to? Imagine pay is excellent and much better than your current job.

I'm a federal employee. Elon Musk is running the federal government. So, technically I'm already working for Elon.

Yep. Feds I know are already getting unhinged emails from Elon encouraging us to quit, so it looks like they are already working for him.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone from school who's a higher up at Space X and they often justified it as that they could do good within the crazy. They've gone really quiet recently.

Space X has a skeleton crew they work all hours and only the top 1 percent are paid well. Chaos and bad working conditions have always been a musk thing. He doesn’t create he destroys while getting government funding Mr welfare

Same with Starkink.

Musk treats them like crap that is not new.

When he bought Twitter he promised to pay employees lol 😂 nope.

Anyone willing to work for a Nazi gets what they deserve

[Anonymous]

I know someone who worked with him as a lawyer for a lot of money and…hell no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends. If I work with other engineers and never see Elon, why not.

Remote so you'd never see him or anyone else. I have many reservations: the obvious ethical ones, job security, plus some of the schedule and timing is not ideal. But it is more than I have ever earned in my life, by a lot. I don't "need" the money because I am a frugal person generally without big needs, but I'm also in my current position because I always make the selfless, lower pay, responsible and good work/life balance choices...So am I just avoiding risk at the detriment of myself?

Remote? C'mon, don't be lazy. Return to the office now!

Or is RTO not something Elon is worried about with his own staff? Hypocrite.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone from school who's a higher up at Space X and they often justified it as that they could do good within the crazy. They've gone really quiet recently.

Space X has a skeleton crew they work all hours and only the top 1 percent are paid well. Chaos and bad working conditions have always been a musk thing. He doesn’t create he destroys while getting government funding Mr welfare

Same with Starkink.

Musk treats them like crap that is not new.

When he bought Twitter he promised to pay employees lol 😂 nope.

Anyone willing to work for a Nazi gets what they deserve

Well, given that we did work with actual Nazis after the war to develop rockets, I guess there's not much change. SpaceX is the preeminent company in rocketry today, so there will always be a lot of aerospace engineers willing to work there on cutting edge technology. There's Blue Origin too, but is a Bezos company really that much better? Unfortunately, Boeing is a disaster these days, so working for Musk or Bezos is pretty much where it's at for rocket engineers today.