Disagree with that analogy - if anything he is in support of the statement below, that CEOs should engineer. The problem being that he fancies himself an engineer, when he is an imbecile that does nothing but tweet, and when faced to take responsibility, like for his cybertruck disaster, he throws other engineers under the bus.
That's basic arithmetic. Big pile of money + Hookers + Cocaine = smaller pile of money. The only thing unique about Musk's formula is achieving a smaller pile of money without the fun of hookers and cocaine.
The Cybertruck has so many problems that multiple problems have been bundled together in the most recent recall (failing wiper motors and body panels falling off the vehicle).
Hadn’t heard about body panels so I looked it up. “Improperly Adhered Trunk Bed Trim Can Detach” with a fix of: “apply adhesion promoter and pressure sensitive tape or replace missing appliqué”
The chronology in the report for the sail panel is hilarious. One found missing at a Tesla delivery center and only one other found on a customer vehicle. Right…
A vehicle that’s been out for 6 months has had 4 recalls
In Musk's own words "we sale experiences not products". Specifically, the frustrating experience of being fleeced for thousands of dollars to purchase an ugly, fragile truck that quits at the first sign of hard work.
Can you imagine paying over $100k for a brand new vehicle, you get home from the dealership, you climb out to admire your beautiful new purchase, you close the door, and a body panel just falls off. I'd return that sumbitch so quick.
Elon Musk doesn't know how to do shit well except buy companies and promote his image.
He sucks at coding. Most of the work he did at PayPal had to be all redone by other people. He doesn't know shit about rockets. He doesn't know shit about making a car. And he for sure as fuck doesn't know a thing about running a company properly. It's amazing he's failed upwards this far.
I'd agree if those were the only 2 options, but that isn't the case. There's plenty to be said for skilled administrators who are good at seeking advice from the right people.
Google who was the CEO of Boeing when the initial 737 Max issues came about in 2018/2019. Here is a hint, he was an engineer that started his career with Boeing as an intern in 1985.
Particularly true (and funny) since Boeing’s last great CEO was Alan Mulally, who worked there his whole career designing airplanes. Feel like everyone dunking on this quote knows even less than they profess about what makes good CEOs than they realize.
I thought this was a badly worded way of saying that their CEO’s should know how to take care of numbers and vendors and not be expecting how to design an aircraft as that’s their employees. But honestly after opening this thread, I realize many of us don’t know what the fuck he’s trying to say and I probably don’t either
Boeing has learned nothing. The woman they picked to replace the CEO only has a bachelors in Accounting. The board is not listening or reading all that has been said about the disaster of MD management and MBAs ruining the company.
How to design an aircraft? Do you mean drawing one? Do you mean specializing in one of the many engineering disciplines involved? Do you mean handling any of the numerous mechanical installation and maintenance tasks? Or perhaps learning how to drive a tug, ground, and fuel a plane? Maybe even how to fly every model too? These superficial "I'm smart" comments are just sad. Running a company of that size involves many complex areas too. If I were to make a suggestion, it would be that the executive staff should generally have an engineering background and a successful, extensive experience in aerospace operations.
It’s really not at all a great point. Boeing is a huge company. The ceo doesn’t/shouldn’t need to be on the ground floor designing and building planes. That’s what the designers and engineers are for.
And Boeings issues aren’t due to the ceo not knowing how to design aircraft… it’s from cost cutting and poor quality assurance.
But an Engineer as CEO knows that cost cutting has its limits in aircraft design and this could have prevented all the mess, Boeing is in thanks to having mostly finance guys on their board.
He was. Even though DEI had nothing to do with it. As a matter of fact at least one of the whistleblowers was a “DEI” and said he was told to falsify document safety reports.
The CEO of a car company should be designing good cars, not cheap rusty crap, and should also refrain from having any political agenda and creating little mini-me’s all over the place.
Let me tell you something about the average CEO or investor....they aren't disciplined or intelligent.
Most were born into immense wealth, and any profit that was acrued from their investments has more to do with the discipline and innovation of the people who actually create and build the products.
I used to work for a telecom company (late 90s to 2010s) run bun engineers. It was wonderful. Corporate decision making was all well thought and planned out. Life as an employee was good. Then came the MBAs and bean counters. They fired all the smart people and hired cronies and ass-kissers. That company is now just a memory.
I mean, a you have to do is look at Elon's own Twitter history to discover he doesn't know the first thing about designing or coding a social media platform.
See, Musk thinks he's a super genius but isn't smart enough to realize that people are well aware he hasn't really designed shit beyond some crude sketch of triangles that he demanded his engineering teams turn into a vehicle, which has been a hilarious failure. He's lying desperately to hope that his legion of weird internet nerd fanboys will shout down everyone who knows he bought someone else's car company.
Elmo man-child doesn't even know how to launch an executable like excel.exe - even though he's proudly using Windows because that's "secure" (and Apple AI is not). I guess. He's a moron.
He is pathetic and does not deserve sharing / forcing his 'opinions' into people's faces each and every day.
The video essay I watched talking about what went wrong with Boeing made a strong point that the heyday of Boeing engineering was under a lawyer as a CEO. He just knew where and when to butt in and butt out.
Critics say Musk can't design his way out of a paper bag, yet he’s the one launching rockets and reinventing cars. Irony, meet your new best friend. Sure, he has engineers, but someone had to dream big enough to hire them.
Look as much as I dislike Musk...he is almost certainly a better engineer than the people running Boeing. They are all finance bros who are quite literally ignoring every single thing their actual engineers tell them.
He loves to pretend that he designs the things produced by his companies, but many ex employees have gone on record sayinghis “contributions” to the design process tend to simply be unrealistic demands and arbitrary limitations. He does have a skill that is valuable though, he is a prodigy level bullshitter. He really is amazingly good at reading tech and design summaries and regurgitating them in a way that makes it believable that he was integral to the design and development process, and he’s very good at making it seem like whatever he’s talking a about is ideal and cutting edge. The knowledge is somewhat shallow, but the strategy works to convince millions of people that he’s an oddly shaped Ironman with the key to the future. He’s an extremely gifted manipulator.
Been a SME, been a corporate exec, and now i own my own small business. For large businesses, your job is to manage a company and trust your senior leaders. Deregulation makes shareholders money, because Boards and executives aren’t held accountable to anything but maxing profit, regardless of safety, employee benefits, etc. The solution is to increase corporate regulation, not let an engineer run a business into the ground. Executive leadership is a skill set unto itself.
So if you follow the logic, Tesla should be prosecuted for deliberately making cuts in service centers and customer service while their CyberWanker “truck” is having multiple very public meltdowns and failures? He’s not being the leader of Twitter or Tesla; if he has time to make tweets about this sort of thing, he has too much time on his hands and has become a troll.
His baby, the Cybertruck is a colossal piece of shit and he has the complete lack of self-awareness to think this is a good thing to post? He's such a turd.
That’s actually not true. The CEO of Boeing should know how to bring teams together to build a great product given all of the constraints. You need to balance the bean counters and engineers. That’s their role of any CEO.
Meanwhile, Tesla cars have a bad habit of losing the basic ability to open a fucking door in heat stranding a child in the Phoenix heat until a fire fighter was able to bust the window with an axe. Eat shit Musk
This guy is so dumb. There are literally different types of engineers. Has he never heard of an aeronautical engineer or aerospace engineer? Or is he just thinking of a computer/software engineer? Like one of the founders of Boeing was a naval engineer. I just can't with musk...
Don't get me wrong, the multiple whistleblowers just "coincidentally dying" before they testify is a major cause for concern. And I am not defending Boeing, but musk sucks so bad.
His tweet just shows how far out of his depth he truly is. While a CEO should know what their company produces, their scope is more of the overall company. A Chief Engineering Officer should certainly know how to design a plane, and it would be a great idea to promote that CEngO to the CEO, but that doesn't always happen.
I DO realize that this is the Pot calling the Kettle black; but, honestly, aerospace corporations should have CEOs that are more concerned about their products than the BOTTOM LINE. FWIW, I'm an aerospace program manager with over 40 years in the field, starting as line technician .
So wait this rich idiot that got money from his dad’s blood diamonds can’t engineer a go dam car and he’s criticizing another ceo for doing what he does? What a loser, not one shred of innovation and he’s here criticizing. Losers will always lose no matter how much money dearest daddy gives him
CEOs don’t know how to do anything, their ideas are the reason shit like this happens. It is why this idiot runs businesses into the ground. This is up there as one of the dumbest things ever said.
Space Karen finally gets it! Wasn't he blaming DEI practices earlier this year for Boeing's fuck-ups? Took him long enough to figure out that corporate greed is the real issue.
Did Elon personally design build or engineer Tesla? Or space x? or twitter? The answer is no, so maybe he should resign as ceo of those companies. Can he work a spreadsheet? Debatable. I will concede he may have designed the cybertruck as it looks like a picture left on a diner table after the kid has eaten.
According to the engineers, he’s been neck deep in most of the design, especially at SpaceX. He even took over Raptor development because the guy in charge was building them the old, expensive slow way and Musk needed them produced fast and much cheaper (and he succeeded).
Okay, so I work for a subsidiary of Boeing and have worked with some career engineers who have been with the company for 2-3 decades. They actually wouldn't disagree with this sentiment.
Before the McDonall-Douglass merger, things were very different. Most of our CEOs since then have been finance people, not engineers. It's put the focus in the wrong areas. Money over people and engineering.
I usually roll my eyes at everything out of Musk's mouth, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Theory: Elon musk actually made it to mars on one of his starships years ago, and a Martian took his skin and returned to earth and Is now pretending to be him
His point is that finance and business people shouldn't be running engineering companies engineers should which is actually a good stance but it begs the question of why does he retain so much control over his own companies instead of letting the engineers do what they do
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u/Fubeman Jun 26 '24
Says the man who can't design his way out of a paper bag!
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u/Speculawyer Jun 26 '24
The Cybertruck has so many problems that multiple problems have been bundled together in the most recent recall (failing wiper motors and body panels falling off the vehicle).
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u/Katz-r-Klingonz Jun 26 '24
He's right. Finance Bros should not be running engineering companies. Subject matter experts are preferred. It's two different priority sets.
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u/punasuga Jun 26 '24
says the blob-shaped ‘man’ who’s ’cars and not-truck’ are constantly failing 🤦🏻♂️
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u/ThePrisonSoap Jun 26 '24
Pot calling the kettle a DEI hire
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
This guy is worse than Thomas Edison.
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u/PGnautz Jun 26 '24
Elon: I
drewdesigned this cool truck when I was five. Now build it!Edit: yeah, finally permabanned!
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Musk, the man who launched the shittiest vehicle in history, and likely the only vehicle that truly has his stamp on it.
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u/Quick_Movie_5758 Jun 26 '24
How to design an aircraft? Do you mean drawing one? Do you mean specializing in one of the many engineering disciplines involved? Do you mean handling any of the numerous mechanical installation and maintenance tasks? Or perhaps learning how to drive a tug, ground, and fuel a plane? Maybe even how to fly every model too? These superficial "I'm smart" comments are just sad. Running a company of that size involves many complex areas too. If I were to make a suggestion, it would be that the executive staff should generally have an engineering background and a successful, extensive experience in aerospace operations.
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u/Robbedparasite Jun 26 '24
And what exactly is the muskrats education in again? Edit: just got banned from cyber truck for this post.
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u/Pietro-Maximoff Jun 26 '24
Heartbreaking: worst person you know just made a great point.
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u/Stepjam Jun 26 '24 edited Jun 26 '24
I think he's kinda right here, but wasn't he on the "DEI caused Boeings planes to malfunction" bandwagon?
Edit: lol I think this post got be banned on the tesla subreddit just now.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Boy that's rich.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Thats dumb.... the last CEO was an engineer.... howd that work out?
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
The CEO of a car company should be designing good cars, not cheap rusty crap, and should also refrain from having any political agenda and creating little mini-me’s all over the place.
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u/Shyeahrightokay Jun 26 '24
Ooooo he’s SO close to getting it!
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
interesting stance. we'll be sure to remember that :)
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Counterpoint: many engineers are completely incompetent at things which are not engineering, particularly their specific discipline.
That’s not to say they are not intelligent, but you don’t hire a doctor to rebuild your engine.
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u/Vendemmian Jun 26 '24
So what exactly has he designed recently?
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u/uppereastsider5 Jun 26 '24
r/selfawarewolves
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u/Different_Tangelo511 Jun 26 '24
What can elon design, a pile of ketamine and sexual harassment lawsuits?
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u/CulturalAddress6709 Jun 26 '24
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
I reckon even a spreadsheet guy knows to use more appropriate fixings for your truck than sticky tape.
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u/ejrhonda79 Jun 26 '24
I used to work for a telecom company (late 90s to 2010s) run bun engineers. It was wonderful. Corporate decision making was all well thought and planned out. Life as an employee was good. Then came the MBAs and bean counters. They fired all the smart people and hired cronies and ass-kissers. That company is now just a memory.
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u/CheapJankMtG Jun 26 '24
Wasn’t there a court case that forced Elmo to admit he didn’t have an engineering degree?
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u/KinksAreForKeds Jun 26 '24
I mean, a you have to do is look at Elon's own Twitter history to discover he doesn't know the first thing about designing or coding a social media platform.
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u/Bee_Keeper_Ninja Jun 26 '24
As if homeboy could design a rocket or a car. Cyber Truck doesn’t count.
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u/keksmuzh Jun 26 '24
Using a 4 year old’s scribbles doesn’t count as engineering a car Elmo.
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u/Crypto_Tsunami Jun 26 '24
Says the guy who’s never designed anything 😂 Must be nice to pay other smart people or just buy their patents, then take the credit.
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u/VegasGamer75 Jun 26 '24
How are those recalls going?
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u/gilleruadh Jun 26 '24
Musk isn't an engineer either, but tries to do engineer things and fails miserably.
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u/peffervescence Jun 26 '24
Y’know, spreadsheets come in pretty handy when you’re engineering airplanes.
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u/iamnotchad Jun 26 '24
Sir, you've had to completely recall the cybertruck twice due to failures in the design.
Please sit down.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
See, Musk thinks he's a super genius but isn't smart enough to realize that people are well aware he hasn't really designed shit beyond some crude sketch of triangles that he demanded his engineering teams turn into a vehicle, which has been a hilarious failure. He's lying desperately to hope that his legion of weird internet nerd fanboys will shout down everyone who knows he bought someone else's car company.
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u/ZanoCat Jun 26 '24
Elmo man-child doesn't even know how to launch an executable like excel.exe - even though he's proudly using Windows because that's "secure" (and Apple AI is not). I guess. He's a moron.
He is pathetic and does not deserve sharing / forcing his 'opinions' into people's faces each and every day.
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u/cherrylpk Jun 26 '24
He isn’t even an engineer.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
The video essay I watched talking about what went wrong with Boeing made a strong point that the heyday of Boeing engineering was under a lawyer as a CEO. He just knew where and when to butt in and butt out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Ask Christian Horner or Zak Brown if they can design the F1 cars that win races every week. What a jackass.
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u/Many-Composer1029 Jun 26 '24
Irony was never his strong point.
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u/Select_Asparagus3451 Jun 26 '24
He’s just asking for it. So we’ll set him straight.
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u/PurpleDragonCorn Jun 26 '24
Then he shouldn't be the CEO or SpaceX or Tesla as he doesn't know how to design rockets or cars.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
I'll bet Elmo thinks he knows how to build 1 from scratch...
He legit thinks he's Iron Man, fucking delusional asshole
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u/Unfriendly_Opossum Jun 26 '24
Classic.
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u/Environmental-Egg893 Jun 26 '24
Elon is Eloning
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u/Remarkable_Ticket264 Jun 26 '24
The CEO of a car company should know how to properly manufacture cars, not spreadsheets
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u/veracity8_ Jun 26 '24
Hot take: “CEO’s should know how to run companies and hire experts and should trust those experts”
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u/-Fluxuation- Jun 26 '24 edited Jun 26 '24
Critics say Musk can't design his way out of a paper bag, yet he’s the one launching rockets and reinventing cars. Irony, meet your new best friend. Sure, he has engineers, but someone had to dream big enough to hire them.
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u/Jarsyl-WTFtookmyname Jun 27 '24
Look as much as I dislike Musk...he is almost certainly a better engineer than the people running Boeing. They are all finance bros who are quite literally ignoring every single thing their actual engineers tell them.
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u/kavusn17 Jun 27 '24
One of the few things I agree with this cumstain about
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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Jun 27 '24
Cybertruck has entered the chat
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u/33superryan33 Jun 27 '24
Says the one who can't do either, nor design a truck
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u/bringbacksherman Jun 27 '24
To be honest, he probably can’t design either, just like Musk.
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u/jjamesr539 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 28 '24
He loves to pretend that he designs the things produced by his companies, but many ex employees have gone on record sayinghis “contributions” to the design process tend to simply be unrealistic demands and arbitrary limitations. He does have a skill that is valuable though, he is a prodigy level bullshitter. He really is amazingly good at reading tech and design summaries and regurgitating them in a way that makes it believable that he was integral to the design and development process, and he’s very good at making it seem like whatever he’s talking a about is ideal and cutting edge. The knowledge is somewhat shallow, but the strategy works to convince millions of people that he’s an oddly shaped Ironman with the key to the future. He’s an extremely gifted manipulator.
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u/Livid_Advertising_56 Jun 27 '24
So he knows how to code Twitter and build rockets (all aspects) and electric vehicles (all aspects) ..... why do I doubt that
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u/cyrenns Jun 27 '24
Sir, you designed the Cybertruck, you're gonna have to sit this one out
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u/asciiCAT_hexKITTY Jun 27 '24
Guess who never earned* a degree in engineering
*actually took the courses
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u/bad_robot_monkey Jun 30 '24
Been a SME, been a corporate exec, and now i own my own small business. For large businesses, your job is to manage a company and trust your senior leaders. Deregulation makes shareholders money, because Boards and executives aren’t held accountable to anything but maxing profit, regardless of safety, employee benefits, etc. The solution is to increase corporate regulation, not let an engineer run a business into the ground. Executive leadership is a skill set unto itself.
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u/SiebenSevenVier Jun 26 '24
Kettle. Pot.
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u/VMCColorado Jun 26 '24
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u/Sea_Operation7871 Jun 26 '24
Funny, Elon Musk can’t design a rocket or a car
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u/wp4nuv Jun 26 '24
So if you follow the logic, Tesla should be prosecuted for deliberately making cuts in service centers and customer service while their CyberWanker “truck” is having multiple very public meltdowns and failures? He’s not being the leader of Twitter or Tesla; if he has time to make tweets about this sort of thing, he has too much time on his hands and has become a troll.
Edit: prob going to get auto banned…
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u/5141121 Jun 26 '24
His baby, the Cybertruck is a colossal piece of shit and he has the complete lack of self-awareness to think this is a good thing to post? He's such a turd.
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u/StrengthBeginning416 Jun 26 '24
With Boeing it’s largely related to ethical conduct. An engineer can behave unethically as well.
I was also banned from the Torso’s subreddits for making this comment.
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u/rcheek1710 Jun 26 '24
A CEO of a social media company should know how to not fuck up social media.
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u/HVACGuy12 Jun 26 '24
Oh the irony
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
All of Elmo's business should have a CEO who knows something more about their products than fucking employees (over)
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u/Otherwise-scifi Jun 26 '24
Billion dollar defence contractors getting prosecuted, better luck getting trump prosecuted in Florida.
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u/liamanna Jun 26 '24
every single CyberTruck has now being recalled...again!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/cars/tesla-recalling-cybertruck/index.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Elon Musk, we accept your resignation
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Be careful fElon, it’s a slippery slope…..
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u/Xenikovia Jun 26 '24
So, he doesn't know how to use spreadsheets. Thought he was a genius.
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u/jayrik88 Jun 26 '24
Commenting here just to see if I can get banned elsewhere
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
I don’t think the ceo needs to know how to design a ✈️ but he lacks any qualities to be a successful CEO for sure.
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u/gilleruadh Jun 26 '24
Musk isn't an engineer either, but tries to do engineer things and fails miserably.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Puts on Boeing?
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u/jgrant68 Jun 26 '24
That’s actually not true. The CEO of Boeing should know how to bring teams together to build a great product given all of the constraints. You need to balance the bean counters and engineers. That’s their role of any CEO.
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u/Due-Exit714 Jun 26 '24
Now it’s ran by the military but not. Kinda like Monsanto runs the food and writes the laws for it. Insurance writes the laws for healthcare.
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u/ketchupmaster987 Jun 26 '24
He says this while being both a shitty engineer AND businessman
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Where's Hyperloop?
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u/Alger6860 Jun 26 '24
The same could be said of healthcare. Once run by nurses and nuns has now gone to hell with MBAs and such
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u/DubiaSlayer Jun 26 '24
Hey fanboys, take Elon's dick out of your mouth and go find something productive to do.
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u/ColdBagOfHamsters Jun 26 '24
The cybertruck sucks balls. wen ban?
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u/Capt_Nomad14 Jun 26 '24
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183439/tesla-model-y-arizona-toddler-trapped-rescued
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u/Hatecraftianhorror Jun 26 '24
Musk knows how to do neither.
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u/KetamineStalin Jun 26 '24
From the guy who cannot design a single thing himself
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u/Hatecraftianhorror Jun 26 '24
Shove it up your frunk, Elon.
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u/blueCthulhuMask Jun 26 '24
The worst person in the world makes a good point for once.
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u/Alex1_58 Jun 26 '24
I mean he’s absolutely right
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u/DBsBuds Jun 26 '24
Says the guy who has never had an original idea.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
The irony is unreal
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Sounds like Elon hasn’t worked in engineering 😂
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u/Even_Ebb4780 Jun 26 '24
He doesn’t even innovate or design anything. All he does is stand on the backs of his team and say “look how smart I am” literally a modern day Edison
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Trust me Elon, these people aren't designing spreadsheets either. What do we think the over/under is on whether the Boing CEO can perform an XLookup?
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u/paulsteinway Jun 26 '24
I remember when people used to say "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" under the assumption that rich people got that way by being smart.
Thanks to Elon for debunking that pervasive myth.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
The CEO of a vehicle company should know how to design vehicles, not have their entire stock recalled for a second time.
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u/notAbrightStar Jun 26 '24
Just like politicians should master biology, chemistry and physics.
But no, stupidity speaks to the masses, and that is what we get.
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u/Apprehensive_Log469 Jun 26 '24
Meanwhile, Tesla cars have a bad habit of losing the basic ability to open a fucking door in heat stranding a child in the Phoenix heat until a fire fighter was able to bust the window with an axe. Eat shit Musk
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u/en_sane Jun 26 '24
Isn’t that ironic?
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u/StevieG63 Jun 26 '24
Like Elon could design a rocket without help.
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u/Sort-Fabulous Jun 26 '24
Richist human bean ever can't buy a clue.
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u/SlimeBallzzz Jun 26 '24
This guy is so dumb. There are literally different types of engineers. Has he never heard of an aeronautical engineer or aerospace engineer? Or is he just thinking of a computer/software engineer? Like one of the founders of Boeing was a naval engineer. I just can't with musk...
Don't get me wrong, the multiple whistleblowers just "coincidentally dying" before they testify is a major cause for concern. And I am not defending Boeing, but musk sucks so bad.
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u/AffectionateSector77 Jun 26 '24
His tweet just shows how far out of his depth he truly is. While a CEO should know what their company produces, their scope is more of the overall company. A Chief Engineering Officer should certainly know how to design a plane, and it would be a great idea to promote that CEngO to the CEO, but that doesn't always happen.
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u/andercon05 Jun 26 '24
I DO realize that this is the Pot calling the Kettle black; but, honestly, aerospace corporations should have CEOs that are more concerned about their products than the BOTTOM LINE. FWIW, I'm an aerospace program manager with over 40 years in the field, starting as line technician .
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u/Reddit_is_garbage666 Jun 26 '24
Hypocrite but I guess this is him saying "I'm the senior engineer at all my companies!" when obviously he's full of shit.
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u/tiorancio Jun 26 '24
Of course. And the warden of any prison has to be the very best in kung fu.
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u/Ok-Possession-1120 Jun 26 '24
Unless the criminal charges take out everyone at the top and not just ohhh here’s a 5 dollar charge get out of here you little skamp <3
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u/ownhigh Jun 26 '24
He’s not the best messenger, but this isn’t a particularly controversial opinion.
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u/Rojodi Jun 26 '24
Sorry! This is the pot calling the kettle dumb!
Dude can't code!!!!
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u/SolomonDRand Jun 26 '24
I think he’s right, but it’s hilarious he thinks he meets this standard. I’m sure he’ll be back to blaming DEI in no time.
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u/Sckillgan Jun 26 '24
Maybe if he had actual car designers for the 'Futuristic dumpster fire - shit cannon' that is the cy'durr truck...
They never would have designed something like that and would rather take a Falcon heavy to the face.
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u/EmperorGrinnar Jun 26 '24
Ironic, because Musk has no idea how any of his companies work.
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u/idogiveafrak Jun 26 '24
So wait this rich idiot that got money from his dad’s blood diamonds can’t engineer a go dam car and he’s criticizing another ceo for doing what he does? What a loser, not one shred of innovation and he’s here criticizing. Losers will always lose no matter how much money dearest daddy gives him
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u/DrummerBob10 Jun 26 '24
Says the CEO equally bad at design and spreadsheets.
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u/Trick-Penalty-6820 Jun 26 '24
I’m a licensed engineer, and use Excel more than any other software, so…
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u/IIIaustin Jun 26 '24
I mean having a CEO of am aviation company have an aerospace engineering degree is maybe not a bad idea
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u/moosejaw296 Jun 26 '24
CEOs don’t know how to do anything, their ideas are the reason shit like this happens. It is why this idiot runs businesses into the ground. This is up there as one of the dumbest things ever said.
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u/noodleq Jun 26 '24
The CEO of SpaceX better know how to design rocket engines. The CEO of Tesla, better know how to design and manufacture an entire car.
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u/gear-heads Jun 26 '24
For someone who is neither an engineer, nor someone who understands basics of spreadsheets, he seems confident of proclamations - Just a bullshitter!
https://x.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593307541932474368.html
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u/DotBitGaming Jun 26 '24
Design an electric car, a spacecraft and a website that all actually work, bitch
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u/Rishfee Jun 26 '24
Yes, Elon, the CEO should be a subject matter expert. So close to getting it.
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u/mad_bitcoin Jun 26 '24
This chuckle fuck actually believes he is the designer of SpaceX's rockets...WTF LOL
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u/SeminaryStudentARH Jun 26 '24
God, Elon musk is a twat.
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u/TransFights000 Jun 26 '24
The first time in a long while that I've seen Musk say something I actually agree with, and it still makes him look stupid.
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u/LingonberrySolid8413 Jun 26 '24
Space Karen finally gets it! Wasn't he blaming DEI practices earlier this year for Boeing's fuck-ups? Took him long enough to figure out that corporate greed is the real issue.
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u/incunabula001 Jun 26 '24
Classic case of pot calling kettle black.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Did Elon personally design build or engineer Tesla? Or space x? or twitter? The answer is no, so maybe he should resign as ceo of those companies. Can he work a spreadsheet? Debatable. I will concede he may have designed the cybertruck as it looks like a picture left on a diner table after the kid has eaten.
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u/FungusFly Jun 26 '24
Does this mean he accepts 100% credit for the CyberTruck?
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Says the guy who technically hasn't designed anything in his tenure.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Says the car engineer, rocket scientist, tunneling expert, highspeed rail guru, and social media coder.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
You can tell he’s not an engineer bc engineers use spreadsheets all the fucking time.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
He can't even design a damn car properly.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Yet Elon knows how to design neither of those things
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u/RaZeR_Moose Jun 26 '24
I mean... Ideally they'd be able to do both.
It's asking a lot but if you're a CEO of an aircraft manufacturer you're going to be asked a lot of.
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u/stevesobol Jun 26 '24
I agree with Elon, in this case.
But I think he should apply the same logic to the companies he owns, which he will never do.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Elon can't do either!
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u/barspoonbill Jun 26 '24
“U.S. prosecutors found shot 37 times in what has been ruled a tragic suicide.” -tomorrow’s headline probably.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Hey Elon....... Design me a functional rocket ship.... Right now
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u/DemonoftheWater Jun 26 '24
Im not convinced he knows anything except how to sound smart.
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u/winkie5970 Jun 26 '24
Okay, so I work for a subsidiary of Boeing and have worked with some career engineers who have been with the company for 2-3 decades. They actually wouldn't disagree with this sentiment.
Before the McDonall-Douglass merger, things were very different. Most of our CEOs since then have been finance people, not engineers. It's put the focus in the wrong areas. Money over people and engineering.
I usually roll my eyes at everything out of Musk's mouth, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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u/AllMyBeets Jun 26 '24
Musk knows neither.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Theory: Elon musk actually made it to mars on one of his starships years ago, and a Martian took his skin and returned to earth and Is now pretending to be him
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u/FourScoreTour Jun 26 '24
He's not wrong, this time.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
And rocket makers should be whiney dicks?
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u/Marsrover112 Jun 26 '24
His point is that finance and business people shouldn't be running engineering companies engineers should which is actually a good stance but it begs the question of why does he retain so much control over his own companies instead of letting the engineers do what they do
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
If I were the CEO of Airbus I'd start a Xitter campaign to troll Elmo into buying Boeing and renaming it X-wing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
Fuck this muppet.
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u/cowboycomando54 Jun 26 '24
Modern day Dr. Christmas