“We’re working overtime to make sure your tax dollars are spent wisely!” Thank you to the thousands of Americans who expressed the wish to help us ». In a message published on Explanations.
80 hours a week and a lot of trouble
Let’s start by clarifying that this new organization will operate outside of official government. Its stated objective is to carry out efforts to reduce costs and rationalize government bureaucracy. This is a fairly polite way of announcing a plan for massive layoffs in the public service and bleeding into the American welfare state with major economic and social consequences.
To carry out this mission, Elon Musk and his new partner are therefore recruiting, but there is a first problem. Applications are in fact only possible on the billionaire’s social network by sending a direct message. A feature that is only open to those who have a paid subscription to the platform.
On paper, the two entrepreneurs also announce blood and tears for all those who are interested. They thus specify that they do not want to “part-time idea generators”but many “revolutionaries with very high IQs, in favor of small government, and willing to work 80+ hours a week on inglorious cost cuts”.
Such working hours are quite rare in the professional world. However, we find them within large investment banks or in the medical sector, for example. At the end of the selection process, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will choose “the top 1% of candidates”.
Elon Musk faithful to his managerial technique
If, despite these various alerts, some were still willing, Elon Musk would like to warn in a tone of irony, with a laughing emoji: “Indeed, it will be difficult work, which will create many enemies for you and the remuneration will be zero. What a great deal! »
All of these prerequisites ultimately correspond quite well to Elon Musk’s managerial practices within these companies. As recalled the Wall Street Journalthe latter has a habit of requiring extended working hours from his teams. He himself puts his money where his mouth is and explains that he works seven days a week with very little time off. However, his remuneration is not “null”since he is to this day the richest man in the world.
