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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My boss still believes he plays a major role in designing the rockets at Space-X. Surprisingly, my boss apparently isn't a child.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I’m good friends with someone who worked at SpaceX. It’s sort of an open secret that Elon has an entire team of people designated specifically to keeping him away from the engineers. Their entire job is to run interference and keep him distracted, so he can’t go marching into the engineers’ areas and ruin all of their work. Because apparently they have learned that if he is given free reign, he’ll tell the engineers to do a bunch of impossible shit, fire them all when they say they can’t, and then the management is left scrambling to hire new engineers.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Which is a fun coincidence cos that's not dissimilar to how my boss "runs" our department lol

That's quite funny but also very sad.

My only reference is an old reddit thread from someone who claimed to work there, but it exactly corroborates this.