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Comment by nowayjoseaway

5 years ago

Don't forget the female engineer they fired for calling Elon "a little shit" on twitter. I don't know if it would be worse if it turned out to be because Elon complained or because he is their hero.

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chrisjc  5 years ago

I'm beginning to think that we should extend Godwin's Law to include Elon. Just about every online conversation nowadays eventually deteriorates into a discussion about how terrible Elon is.

Btw, I'm exaggerating, but still.

rkk3  5 years ago

Firing doesn't seem like a proportional response... But representing herself as a Stripe employee after flaming on the internet isn't a good look for their business.

wly_cdgr  5 years ago

Elon is no angel, but I gotta say it would shock me if he was such a huge loser that he would complain about something like this

  • hef19898  5 years ago

    Well, he called a rescue diver a pedophile because said diver didn't like Elon's sub and had specifuc idea where Elon should put said submarine.

    • tchalla  5 years ago

      I am not going to stand up to Elon Musk or what he said. But, the response generated by Elon Musk was after the British rescue diver said this

      > “He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” he told CNN. “It had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like.

      Somehow, this part gets left out from this discussion.

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  • isx726552  5 years ago

    Here’s an example of Elon going back to a multi-year old Twitter thread to reply, after blocking the person who started it so they can’t reply back:

    https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/14646864235969454...

    That’s the world’s richest person demonstrating willingness to go to some lengths just to get the last word in against some random webcomic author. Yes, I can totally believe they’d be petty enough to complain about online snark to someone’s employer. Doesn’t mean it necessarily happened, but it wouldn’t be that far out of character if it did.

  • nowayjoseaway  5 years ago

    Huh? He does this type of thing all the time, it's a defining part of his personality. You only need to follow his Twitter so see how consistently and strongly he counters anything that makes him look bad. For the really nasty stuff he does behind the scenes you need to dig a little deeper.

    A few examples off the top of my head:

      - Called the employer of a lawyer in Wyoming to get him fired for criticizing him on Twitter.
  - Tried to get the student who was exposing how the self-driving demos were faked expelled, then tried to sue him on false charges.
  - Asked a reporter to investigate the cave diver on a baseless accusation of pedophilia because he made him look bad. When that didn't work, used his private security to try to plant the same stories in the UK.

    Never mind the stuff he does to his own employees, especially whistleblowers.

    In fact it would be contrary to his personality if he didn't send an e-mail to the founders with a message like "Does this person work at Stripe?" with the tweet attached, making it clear what he wants done without explicitly saying it so he can pretend to have plausible deniability.