Elon Musk is once more utilizing ways that he has employed at his firm X and making an attempt to use it to the federal authorities.
The road he’s utilizing on federal staff to justify their employment — “What did you get achieved this week?” — is identical message he despatched to the then-CEO of Twitter, now X, Parag Agrawal earlier than Musk purchased the corporate.
Musk despatched the textual content in 2022 when he was preventing with Agrawal, who had requested Musk to cease posting criticisms about Twitter, saying it was distracting the employees.
Agrawal wrote a protracted message that ended with: “I’d like the corporate to get to a spot the place we’re extra resilient and don’t get distracted, however we aren’t there proper now.”
Elon Musk holds a chainsaw through the annual Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) on the Gaylord Nationwide Resort & Conference Heart at Nationwide Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 20, 2025.
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In response, Musk wrote: “What did you get achieved this week” and mentioned he would make a suggestion to purchase Twitter.
These textual content messages got here out in later court docket filings.
Musk in the end bought Twitter for $44 billion. He fired Agrawal, who later sued Musk alongside different executives who accused Musk of withholding severance cost. After the acquisition, Musk reportedly instructed staff to print out the code that they had lately written to point out the work that they had achieved and justify their employment.
The worth of X is estimated to have dropped dramatically since Musk took it non-public. Constancy believes Twitter is now price 71.5% lower than when Musk purchased the social media firm.
Musk even identified how the scenario resembles what he did at Twitter, posting in a single day: “Parag received nothing achieved. Parag was fired.”
Musk is bringing the identical chaos and confusion he delivered to Twitter to the federal authorities. After shopping for Twitter, Musk swiftly fired high executives, laid off hundreds of staff, and ordered staff return to the workplace.
Some former Twitter staff are sharing recommendation with federal staff on how one can cope with Musk. One in every of them, Yao Yue, posted on X:
“Use Sign or different safe chats to construct trusted teams and discuss to one another. Change data, verify in on the susceptible, supply assist. An occasion like that is extraordinarily emotionally taxing…Document issues, safely. Take notes. Take voice memos. Take footage of your display, emails, or paperwork utilizing your individual system and stash them away in a protected location. They could or could not matter ultimately, but when they do, when you lose entry there’s no technique to ever get it.”
