Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager
Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager
Elon Musk was described as a “pigeon CEO”: “he comes, shits all over us, and goes”, said a former Tesla...
This is what we get for conflating a persons talent and ability with their net worth
His only talent is convincing the wealthy to invest in his schemes. I don't understand how he does it, hearing him speak is painful.
He got lucky with Tesla becoming a meme stock.
SpaceX is being run by a competent engineer while its competitor, Blue Origin is being run by a megalomaniac. This is possibly Musks only competent move in business.
The rest of his ventures have been failures. To any one not blinded by greed, it's clear he long ago peaked. He's playing a shell game now but people will happily invest hoping luck will strike again.
There's an old tweet that explains it well, I'm sure you've seen it.
(Paraphrased) "Elon Musk talked about cars. I don't know anything about cars so when people said he was a genius, I figured he must be a genius"
Investors don't know shit about the stuff they're investing in and Musk sounds really smart when you don't know anything about the thing he's speaking on.
Shows how completely broken the system is.
I wonder what he gave to go on SNL...
Do they mean seagull?
Yeah that's what I was thinking, never heard it called pigeon management before
MINE-agement
Steven management?
Edit: I was joking around. Since Seagal sounds very similar to seagull.
Anyone remember when he spent all his time talking about colonising mars? That was his big thing and the future. Whatever happened to that?
Then spacex got government funding. Now AI is the big thing.
I've still yet to see any of his great visions he's actually delivered on.
SpaceX is a fucking trashfire too. The fact that NASA has contracts with them disturbs me greatly.
I don't think pigeons deserve that sort of badmouthing.
I always heard it as seagulls. Swoop in, make a bunch of noise, crap all over everything, then leave.
I'm picturing him walking into Tesla's offices, going over to the engineers, saying, "make the horn make a fart noise," and leaving, thinking he's brilliant.
"The bear is sticky with honey"
My God he's brilliant....
> be me
> walk into billion dollar company that's slowly tanking
> entire staff gets down on their knees begging for mercy
> look around
> point to the most impressive technological advancement in transportation of the century since the car was invented
> "what the hell is this?"
> lead project manager raises, still trembling
> "it's our brand new zero emission self driving car powered entirely by the air around it and it can be produced for half the cost of our existing line"
> do that obama lip thing
> "not bad, not bad"
> idea pops into my head
> evilgrinchgrin.jpg
> "what if.. you made the horn sound a fart?"
> everybody has a nervous breakdown
> cut half the team and leave without elaborating
> be homeless dude wielding machete
> picture unrelated
I've never heard of pigeon management but I have heard something similar described as playing chess with a pigeon as someone who "knocks all the pieces over, shits on the board then struts aroind like they've won".
Here's some more anti-patterns https://gist.pother.ca/2e5817a37b1229ea1930/
Thanks for the list. While there are some that I read about previously, a few of the other patterns are something that I only experienced.
It is nice to know that these have been identified and labelled by others in the industry. :D
poltergeist
um, isn't that a DTO?
That’s an insult to pigeons.
Somewhat ironic that the original joke was about seagull managers.
poetry
Can't we all agree to just ignore him? Like stop posting about him and quit Twitter? He thrives off negative attention.
Problem is that lots of people do not leave Tw(X)tter and are not intending to do so :( And some are on Mastodon sort of pretending to have left the Pigeon sh*t CEO product, but still posting mostly screenshots from the old site. Good thing is that some are pretty clear about having left and encouraging others to follow like here : https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor ->
Journalists, please leave Twitter and join the fediverse.
Here's how to get started:No people can't because they're addicted to outrage-porn and being degraded (humiliation fetish).
Soooo... just a bog-standard CEO, then.
As much as I hate them, I would wager that the majority of CEOs are more educated, smarter and have a better understanding of their business than Elon "Failed Upward" Musk.
CEOs are more educated, smarter and have a better understanding of their business
You haven't met that many of them, have you?
I have - the difference between the ones I met and the likes of Elon is that none of the ones I met had any interest in being celebrities. That's the only difference - their institutionalized incompetence was the exact same.
There's a picture this makes me think of where a bunch of birds are sitting on a tree in typical pyramid hierarchy diagram positions, and each level of birds starting from the second is covered in more shit than the previous.
The true trickle down
As a pigeon enjoyer, offence taken.
I've always heard them described as seagull managers. Screams loudly, shits everywhere, leaves.
much better
We called this the “swoop and poop” in a previous job of mine. Definitely not something encouraged or enjoyed.
The ol’ Swoop-n-Poop as an ex (awesome) boss used to call it.
I brought it up w/ my team and we all got a laugh. We even shared some war stories about bad bosses.
I'm a boss now, so hopefully I'm not like that. I ask my employees to report me to my boss if I do something stupid.
I've been under leaders like this. Definitely not the best ones.
They do say owners pick pets most similar to them.
Sounds about right for him, brain the size of a pigeon too.
Pigeons know how to always fly home. Always a great feeling of direction. I think you overestimated his brain.
I wish my brain were the same size and shape as a pigeon
"I'm a literal bird brain. Check out this x-ray!"
hey that's insulting. against pigeons. they can at least fly without exploding (space x doesnt really), navigate to places without risking themselves (unlike telsa autopilot) and they don't ruin every corporation they own. fuck musk though
he comes, shits all over us, and goes
Worst. Grindr. Hookup. Ever.
Ohh that's how you're supposed to run businesses! Learn from the business genius! (/s)
Hes so full of shit he has dump the Xcess
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Elon's final form as a pigeon manager
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More like one of those geese who are endangered in some places along their migratory path.
A pigeon you can shoot away, those birds you can't. And they've learned that humans in those places can't/won't do anything