埃隆·马斯克再次使用他在X公司用过的策略,并试图将其应用于联邦政府。
他用在联邦工作人员身上来证明他们的雇佣是正当的——“你这周做了什么?”——是马斯克收购公司前,他发给当时的Twitter首席执行官,现在的X,Parag Agrawal的同样信息。
马斯克在2022年与阿格拉瓦尔争吵时发送了这条短信,阿格拉瓦尔曾要求马斯克停止发布对Twitter的批评,称这分散了工作人员的注意力。
Agrawal写了一条很长的信息,结尾是:“我希望公司能达到一个我们更有弹性、不会分心的地方,但我们现在还没有达到那个程度。”
作为回应,马斯克写道:“这一周你做了什么”,并表示他将发出收购Twitter的要约。
这些短信出现在后来的法庭文件中。
马斯克最终以440亿美元收购了Twitter。他解雇了Agrawal,agr awal后来与其他指控马斯克扣留遣散费的高管一起起诉了马斯克。据报道,收购后,马斯克告诉员工打印出他们最近编写的代码,以展示他们所做的工作,并证明他们的雇佣是合理的。
自从马斯克将其私有化后,X的价值估计已经大幅下降。富达认为Twitter现在的价值比马斯克收购这家社交媒体公司时低71.5%。
马斯克甚至指出了这种情况与他在Twitter上所做的事情有多么相似,他整夜都在发帖:“帕拉格什么都没做。帕拉格被解雇了。”
马斯克正在把他给Twitter带来的混乱和困惑带给联邦政府。收购Twitter后,马斯克迅速解雇了高管,解雇了数千名员工,并命令员工返回办公室。
一些前Twitter员工正在与联邦工作人员分享如何应对马斯克的建议。其中一个,姚悦,在X上发帖:
“使用信号或其他安全聊天工具来建立信任的群组并相互交谈。交换信息,查看弱势群体,提供帮助。像这样的活动在情感上是极其繁重的…安全地记录事情。记笔记。记下语音备忘录。使用您自己的设备拍摄您的屏幕、电子邮件或文档,并将它们藏在安全的地方。它们最终可能重要,也可能不重要,但如果重要,一旦你失去了访问权限,就再也没有办法得到它了。”
Musk used 'What did you get done this week?' tactic at Twitter
Elon Musk is again using tactics that he has employed at his company X and trying to apply it to the federal government.
The line he’s using on federal workers to justify their employment -- “What did you get done this week?” -- is the same message he sent to the then-CEO of Twitter, now X, Parag Agrawal before Musk bought the company.
Musk sent the text in 2022 when he was fighting with Agrawal, who had asked Musk to stop posting criticisms about Twitter, saying it was distracting the staff.
Agrawal wrote a long message that ended with: “I’d like the company to get to a place where we are more resilient and don’t get distracted, but we aren’t there right now.”
In response, Musk wrote: “What did you get done this week” and said he would make an offer to buy Twitter.
Those text messages came out in later court filings.
Musk ultimately purchased Twitter for $44 billion. He fired Agrawal, who later sued Musk alongside other executives who accused Musk of withholding severance payment. After the acquisition, Musk reportedly told employees to print out the code they had recently written to show the work they had done and justify their employment.
The value of X is estimated to have dropped dramatically since Musk took it private. Fidelity believes Twitter is now worth 71.5% less than when Musk bought the social media company.
Musk even pointed out how the situation resembles what he did at Twitter, posting overnight: “Parag got nothing done. Parag was fired.”
Musk is bringing the same chaos and confusion he brought to Twitter to the federal government. After buying Twitter, Musk swiftly fired top executives, laid off thousands of employees, and ordered workers return to the office.
Some former Twitter employees are sharing advice with federal workers on how to deal with Musk. One of them, Yao Yue, posted on X:
“Use Signal or other secure chats to build trusted groups and talk to each other. Exchange info, check in on the vulnerable, offer help. An event like this is extremely emotionally taxing…Record things, safely. Take notes. Take voice memos. Take pictures of your screen, emails, or documents using your own device and stash them away in a safe location. They may or may not matter in the end, but if they do, once you lose access there’s no way to ever get it.”