There was a time in the 50s when the grean André Franquin made a series of drawings with the theme “Mais si on dance?” (translation: “But, what if there is dancing?”) and his figure Gaston Lagaffe. Here is one such drawing (search for more under “mais si on dance? Gaston” if you like):
Those costumes were much better than anything Ms Klum has worn in the last years, but that is just, like, my opinion, man. The remarcable thing here is in my other opinion that the Musk had the time and the nerve to go to such a party. Quite some exhibitionism and decadence there.
She danced.
That looks amazingly like Bill Watterson to my eyes.
I don’t disagree, both have an eye for movement, for instance, and are genuinly funny, but Bill Watterson was born 1958 and this drawing was made around 1958.
And to come back to the subject at hand Elon was born 1971 and has aged much worse than that drawing.
I was thinking Mézières, myself.
As this image inched into view whileI slowly scrolled my iPad. I experienced some real alarm… 
If you want more alarm, there are pictures of her where she’s in her undergarments because she’s taken the costume off, but she’s kept the worm face on. It’s deeply unsettling.
All Twitter employees have to report to the office starting today. I imagine there are a good number of folks that were hired as fully remote employees. Could be a fun commute for some.
From the linked article:
The new boss has upped the price for the Twitter Blue subscription to $8 and attached user verification to it.
Has Bloomberg given up on even the most rudimentary fact checking? The flood of fakes confirms that they don’t verify squat except that the $8 payment cleared.
This is just a way to get people to quit.
Depending what jurisdiction they’re in some of those people might have cause to quite and demand severance. I know in Ontario, if a person is hired under the understanding they are home based, ordering them into the office would almost certainly constitute a constructive dismissal, which means a severance package.
Technically, it wasn’t her underwear. She wore the full worm costume for photographers and then stripped down to a different costume for the party itself.
Hey, if you wanted to have a billion dollars you should have planned ahead and been born with it.
I just saw an interesting meme. It was about looking at how Musk is managing Twitter and then imagining you were living in that Mars colony he’s talked about and was in charge of your air supply.
This whole thread is interesting. Another potential issue for Twitter, as they’re under high scrutiny at a time where they’ve fired their compliance and security leaders.
https://twitter.com/riana_crypto/status/1590740540110536707?s=61&t=fErO0uf8QTMKe_lcFcU63w
More background.
I’m eagerly anticipating Musk selling off more and more shares of Tesla. The company needs to escape before he ruins it, too.
Nah, it’s a control thing.
He did the same at Tesla and Space-X earlier this year and basically accused staff of gold-bricking. Even instituted monitoring to make sure employees were physically present a minimum of 40 hours a week.
Led to problems because they didn’t have enough desks, chairs, supplies, or parking spaces for all of them at most office locations. And didn’t really lead to the improved productivity and 7 day work-weeks he assumed would magically happen.
Looks like he hasn’t learned a single thing from it.
Regarding the new requirement to go back to the office, how is that going to conflict with their 2020 statement that employees could work remotely on a permanent basis? No doubt some employees moved away from wherever the Twitter offices were. Now 2 years later they are rescinding that, which means employees will have to move back in order to keep their jobs. That’s going to be a huge expense. The move seems designed to cause people to quit. Entice them to move away and then fire them if they don’t move back.
That assumes a level of strategery that seems at odds with the flailing that typifies Musk’s decisions of late.
As I noted, he made the same demand of Tesla and Space-X employees earlier this year, without actually considering the logistics at all and leading to lots of headaches. And that was for employees he wanted to keep!
I don’t think he’s even thinking at this point. His instinct is “employees in office = good” and he just makes it official policy without checking with anybody or putting any real thought into it. Just like with the blue/gray/whatever checkbox scheme. Toss out an idea, get enamored, try it out, watch it burn in flames, and double down after.
The only managers who I knew who had this idea were numbskulls and bad managers.
That presumes he would have been allowed to. The legal proceedings he chickened out of looked like they were going to end with forcing him to go through with the deal. I’m fairly certain that if, at that point, he could have successfully argued circumstances allowed him to pay the penalty and walk away he would have.