The question left many workers who hurried.
Most of the workforce of the office for the financial protection of consumers had recently been put on leave while Musk gutted the agency and was asked not to work, leaving them without results to be reported, said a worker.
Mr. Musk’s allies in the government suggested using artificial intelligence to identify budget cuts and workers of different agencies worried that their answers would be evaluated by the AI
The approach echoed to a Mr. Musk adopted with managers and employees on Twitter. In April 2022, Mr. Musk joined the Board of Directors of the Social Media Company, but at the time he quarreled with Parag Agrawal, his CEO, for his public criticisms of the Company. When Mr. Agrawal asked Mr. Musk not to publish harmful things on Twitter, Mr. Musk replied in a message: “What did you do this week?” And then he told Mr. Agrawal that he would buy Twitter.
The exchange led to the acquisition of 44 billion dollars of Mr. Musk of the company, which he completed in October 2022 And Musk sued for holding the payments liquidation.
Shortly after the acquisition, Musk told employees to print the code they had written recently – an exercise intended to demonstrate how much they worked. When the company managers raised privacy problems, Musk commissioned employees to destroy the code they had printed.
Saturday, Mr. Musk recognized the similarities. “Parag did nothing. Parag was fired, “he wrote in a post X on the message he intended to send to federal workers.
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