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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

James Musk is more of as "a fixer type," helping Elon Musk on various tasks, one insider said.

Twitter employees must've dreaded seeing this guy. "Oh no, Elon is with James again. Shit is about to hit the fan"

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't imagine how annoying that would be. Companies with family members as employees, especially startups, are the WORST and most toxic you can get.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A former company was full of nepotism. Chinese managed company with all the stereotypical inner circle politics.

The CEO's daughter was appointed "chief Green officer". We got metal bottle waters.

The daughters boyfriend was put in Sales, and never sold a thing.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 16 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that seems to be the best case scenario for nepotism. Imagine if the daughter and her boyfriend were put into positions of real power without the expertise to back it up. The dad seems to understand and put them kids into harmless job role.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Chinese take nepotism to a new level