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Borrowing from a tactic at X, Elon Musk says government workers must

by jpster on 2/23/25, 7:19 PM with 6 comments

• by wrp on 2/23/25, 9:18 PM

  I'm generally not interested in politicized threads here, but I think discussion of this management tactic is worthy of HN. How well did it work at X, and how well might it work in public bureaucracies?

• by lkramer on 2/23/25, 11:47 PM

  Now that the dust have settled on the Twitter acquisition, I would absolutely love to hear some perspective on what the working culture is like there now. I don't feel much have been leaked since the initial outrage, but it may just be that I've not looked hard enough.

• by jpster on 2/23/25, 7:19 PM

  Hacker News’ submission character limit does not accommodate the full title. “Borrowing from a tactic at X, Elon Musk says government workers must detail their workweek or lose their jobs”

  This submission is on topic and should not be flagged, because this is relevant to Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the management changes he introduced there. Prior submissions about the Twitter takeover [1] and Musk’s management philosophy at X [2] have usually been permitted, unflagged, on Hacker News in the past.

  So, it seems HN would permit this submission to remain unflagged. Snd if not, it would benefit the community for HN to explain the reasons why.

  1: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=musk+twitter+takeover

  2: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

• by ZeroGravitas on 2/23/25, 10:48 PM

  Several department heads have told their employees to ignore this email which only adds to the chaos and drama.

  It also seems people are downplaying the utter bullshitterry of "if you don't reply to this email you are effectively rendering your resignation".

• by dlcarrier on 2/23/25, 8:29 PM

  I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?