I got approached by a spacex recruiter for a job in LA, they wanted me to make less than I made straight out of college with 5 years of work experience plus a graduate degree
I said it’d be real hard to live on that wage in LA but i would give it a shot if they made up the difference in stock… they said no so we parted ways. The recruiter was kind of offended actually they said “usually people will take the lower pay because it’s spacex”
My sister in allah spacex or not my family needs to eat and a roof over their heads.
Anyway I think it’s pretty widely known by now that Elon overworks and underpays people. Now that the veneer is starting to wear thin I wonder how much longer his people will tolerate it
The recruiter was kind of offended actually they said “usually people will take the lower pay because it’s spacex”
Literally paid in experience meme.
Worse than that, it’s not even experience, it’s like paid in cool factor or something. Like because you’re working in private space contracting your kid needs 50% less shoes or sth
Sorry Timmy we can only get the left right now, maybe we get the right at Christmas, but it’s cool because daddy launches rockets
Worse than that, it’s not even experience, it’s like paid in cool factor or something
Literally this. A guy mentioned he worked at Tesla, I asked him where he was planning to go next (seeing as he could make more at any car or many tech companies), and his response was "Some of us really believe in what we're doing")
Instead of "lmao you think making $100,000 death-traps is going to save the world?", I remarked how important it is to feel connected to what you do for work.
Bunch of rubes
Electric car brain has gotta be one of the most prevalent and dangerous bazingas out there rn
imagine being so cucked that you'll take a pay cut to work 100 hour weeks to make the richest man in the world richer
especially funny because the old trade used to be that private sector work paid you way more than government stuff! But now its just like "yeah youll be able to impress the worlds biggest dipshits with your resume"
I'm guessing if the recruiter got offended it was alreadu getting harder to find people dumb enough to work for spacex. If it wasn't why bother getting offended?
They are about to hit a tipping point, where instead of trying to hire people are good, only those who want to work under musk will be there.
It's uncertain whether it's comforting that even I am not that dumb, or horrifying about the power of wishful thinking is about the fact that Elon Musk has taken credit for so much shit he has never done himself, but people think he is a literal wizard.
I'm preaching to the choir here, but here is all the proof you need that you can dismiss anyone who thinks Elon Musk is "anti-establishment":
- Contracter for the military industrial complex
- Basically a Koch brother replacement. Lolberts until the military is in question
I've mentioned it before, and I will say it again: I genuinely believe that a bunch of socialists can get together and run a business that is more effective, more productive than whatever the next uber for dogs these dictionary images of delusions-of-grandeur can come up with.
The problem with this is that the system promotes ruthlessness. You are either more ruthless and out-compete everyone else or someone more ruthless than you out-competes you.
I think the real hurdle is that no VC ghouls will give you several dump trucks full of money to fund it
If a company made me work 100 hour weeks im firebombing the office
Meanwhile China is innovating automated mining keeping people at a safe distance being far more productive.
It's also being worked on in certain companies in the US but it isn't progressing very quickly.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-automating-mines-improve-safety-coal-output-grows-2023-04-28/
You'd be surprised how much nonsense busywork middle management can generate out of nowhere at these kinds of bullshit startups.
In this case it was probably endless bullshit prototypes that barely do anything and are nowhere near applicable to a real world scenario.
If you understaff there's always too much work.
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How do you not get hired in those places the. Just take over.
I would just get hired, then smnever show up, amd just submit time cards to payroll. Whenever anyone asks why I haven't made progress on a project I would say I was reassigned
Not to get all conspiratorial, but Elon Musk was groomed from childhood to be the Koch Brother's replacement. Being a nepo baby and parading that around like its a good thing, being someone younger CHUDs live vicariously through, and the drowning out of voices of people who actually know what they're talking about. It all makes sense.
Oh yeah, and the "cars only" attitude so they can force the WASP's bad taste in everything on everyone.
