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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Back to the grind slaves. /S

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Why the /s? They're not being sarcastic and you're just quoting them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

But there's literally no reason to end that if staying home still gets work done

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't give the same feeling of power to the people in charge if they don't see the ~~drones~~ workers sweat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. It's all about that sense of control. That's what they're paying for. I saw a quote from a survey of execuitives: "I don't know if my employees are walking their dogs for 4 hours per day when they're working from home, but I know they can't walk their dog when they're in the office".

Keep in mind, business execuitives are known to believe shit like, "when I go to the gym, that's work, because I need to be healthy for the business".

They believe they own us. They believe they deserve to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

Feudalism 2.0

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How many days do you think it will take until he calls for unions to be declared illegal?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

He is already arguing the NLRB is unconstitutional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Depends how much Musks's companies try to unionize.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago

The asswipes, Elon and Vivek, own several empty office buildings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

"iT's Up To ThE sTaTes!!!1!"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Please!
But oh no here come the liberals again to tell us how that would hurt the economy and people need to be able to buy stuff. And that this just still isn't the right time to make a big fuss.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

You got to love this. The Pentagon just failed its 7th audit in a row. It has a budget of $1tr. And yet the cost savings team decides that penny pinching by making life harder for workers is where the real savings are to be found. Not the giant black hole of finance which is the military industrial complex.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago

Noooo shhhhh, we're not supposed to talk about HOW THE PENTAGON HAS NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT. We're supposed to be talking about the border, come on people, get it together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Lol, how fast would he get merked for suggesting we cut Pentagon budget

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

How is working in the office saving the pentagon money?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

You've gotta look at it from the perspective of a poor multibillionaire who desperately needs to buy his fifth superyatch so he can work his five CEO jobs remotely

[–] [email protected] 36 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So they'll be coming in every day to their offices in Washington right?

...right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

It's interesting they have multiple offices. Offices they're already not in. If there was a time for a general strike it is forever ago.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago

Saying the quiet part out loud again.

They believe that us not being forced to do what they want simply because they want it is a "privilege," and one that they can and will just arbitrarily decree to be null and void.

That says pretty much everything you meed to know about what they really think about everyone other than themselves.

And ironically enough, what they think is that they themselves are privileged.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So, he and his cabinet will be working 8 hours a day at least 5 days a week in DC ? Can we get that in written please ?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Maybe not in DC, but don't underestimate how many hours most of these psychopaths actually work. They do come to work (maybe not in DC, but to some office somewhere) and work for 100 hours a week, because they place no value on anything other than work. You can fault them for many things, but billionaires are almost always true psychopaths with no concept of anything beyond working to achieve power.

Trump is a different story. He'll say the golf course is his office, where he makes his deals.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Disagree. When you look at their schedules a lot of work hours are actually like lunch meetings or golf trips or whatever they need to do to justify networking without actual work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

I remember my last job, I would have to take days off for sick days, or half days for the Dentists. My boss however would send out emails like "Hey I am going out of town to Palm Springs, I'll be there for 3 weeks, I will be available for phone from the golf course so I am really only taking 2 days of PTO"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Their work is a lot different than the work we do. (it's not harder)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

You can fault them for many things, but billionaires are almost always true psychopaths with no concept of anything beyond working to achieve power.

I can definitely fault them for that

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Guy who sells cars wants people to need cars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I contract for uscis. It's fully distributed, there's no way to enforce this without crippling the agency. So it would hobble the mass deportation plan. Very curious how this might turn out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Since they're both just mouthing off about things they have zero understanding of, based on an over-inflated sense of their own knowledge and competence, this will probably turn out about like most things Trump has tried to do. It'll either go nowhere and they'll just stop speaking of it, or they'll try to force something through and make a mess that someone else will have to clean up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Plus trump said their report will be due on July 4, 2026. How much cutting can they actually due before his term ends? Will they even start mass firing before mid terms?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I liked the meme posted a month ago...

"Great. I get to delete my work email and collaboration apps from my phone"

Musk made a rant last year interview that "It is immoral for you to work from home if people building your car, or delivering your food cannot". As an employer, you have the option to pay more for extra expenses/time involved in coming to office if that is super important to you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not going to take lessons in morality from Mr. I-Promote-Nazis-On-My-Website

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I don't think we should ever listen to moral opinions from ANYONE who has dedicated their lives to skimming as much money as possible off other people's hard work, and not just a few people but millions and millions. They are whatever the capitalist, economic version of a serial killer is.

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[–] [email protected] 249 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree! If Elon musk cannot show up to his offices at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and Washington for 8 hours Monday-Friday, he should be fired without severance as CEO or co-chair of his government department.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

Rules for thee, not for me.

[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome". this is and was always the reason american businesses were eager to force everybody back tp work. eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Don't forget to include giving middle-management a reason to exist as well as justifying the commercial properties expenses! Man do I hate capitalism...

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Anyone wanna bet on how many days Trump is at Mar-a-Lago during his presidency?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Remember when he complained about how many days of vacation Obama took, then took more than that in half as many years?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (5 children)

why federal employees and not the private sector? oh right you want to fire half of the first group.

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[–] [email protected] 188 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unless Musk somehow copied himself several times, he is working remote for most of his companies each day.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 day ago (12 children)

ROFL.

That's hilarious. You actually think Musk works?

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 day ago

Fuck you both

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Get a government job they said, it’s super safe and secure they said.

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