When Elon cansisi Bought Twitter In 2022, he left thousands of employees, stopped paying, and hoping for a great change by auctioning coffee makers and office chairs.
Now the richest man in the world has brought the same slash and burn strategy for the federal government, and some people who have experienced Musk Tick ​​over on Twitter Make a warning: expect chaos, drive through theory as much as cost concerns, threats and many cases.
Since the leadership is handling Government Performance DepartmentKasturi has overcome large parts of the government with the president Donald Trump Blessed, carrier officials accessed sensitive databases and invited the constitutional collision The limits of the presidential authority.
Emily Horn, who headed Twitter’s communication before joining the Biden administration, describes Musk’s Moods Operation: “Take it, brutally clean anyone who again in his global theory. Seees as opposition and crash operations to make. “
It is unclear whether its pressure for “extremely tough” changes on Twitter has gone away. The company has now decreased revenue named X, the number of consumers has decreased and even Musk itself has expressed disappointment about how long the company’s financial affairs are taking.
“This is not working,” said Ross Gurbber, a minority stock holder of X, which is written at zero at zero and expects Musk to fail in Washington. “The federal government will eat it and spit.”
Through some steps, X is still a success. This platform attracts hundreds of millions of users around the world and has strengthened the Musk’s political influence. But exactly how financially finished is difficult to say because the company is private.
The same week in which Musk is Teams on the Dodge Were threatening To lie down Tens of thousands of federal workers, bankers who lend him billions of dollars to buy Twitter were trying to dispel debt and loans to others. Musk has apparently abandoned the hope of attracting key advertisers to the platform and tried some of them.
Examples of budget -minded business leaders who brought their abilities to government work, but Kasturi made it clear to both Twitter and Dodge that his priorities are beyond performance. “Wake up” to root out the agenda.
Long before fighting diversity, equality and efforts to join Trump became the focus of Trump’s third presidential campaign, with Musk eliminating Twitter DEI measures and his managers.
Former employee Theodora Scadas said, “Twitter’s culture has passed away,” after which Kamik cut Twitter in October 2022 after buying Twitter for $ 44 billion. “For many of these agencies and organizations, this can happen in their future.”
Another tactic that appears to be brought before the Musk government: “Performance of loyalty.”
Similarly, Roman Chaudhry, a former Twitter executive, described the Musk campaign to prove the importance of his work to the workers in such a way that she says she shows a fault. For example, engineers were asked to print the code and then an inexperienced engineer evaluating it.
“This is a fear and intimidation tactic,” said Chaudhry. “I do not know that this is the best leadership -style long -term, as has been demonstrated how unnecessary Twitter/X is doing. “
Later Musk tried to restore some of the engineers He fired. His voice for threatening with the advertisers.
Within months The possession of muskuriAdvertising income drowned in half when the brands fled the X due to the concern when it is much more loose to the content. But instead of courting companies, Musk threatened to “shame and shame” his platform. Later at a conference, he used a clear use and emphasized, “Don’t advertise.”
“Talk about shooting yourself in the foot,” said Tom Hespos, an Abidos Media advertising adviser, who told his clients on the occasion to refrain from posting on the X because his brand Can be damaged. “This is probably the worst comment he did.”
In August, the muskur doubled By trial Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and several other companies that dropped Twitter were accused of being involved in the “illegal boycott”. On Saturday, it added more companies to legalization, including Lego, Shell International, Tyson Food, Nestlé and Colgate Pamolio.
Her Prepared legal battles There is also a sign of judicial battles with more than 2,000 Twitter workers that can wait for the government. A Federal Judge on Thursday Put on the hold On the same day, the last date of the midnight will accept the salary of Musk during September to accept the “Offer of Delayed Resignation” for government workers on the same day.
The email title of the offer was “Fork in Road”, a similar email echoed to the Twitterwork force in 2022.
More than two years later, Musk’s X is still “spending a crazy money,” said Shannon Les Rorden, a lawyer for hundreds of workers who defends against the allegations of former Twitter employees. The passage is owed. He said that it was cheaper to pay only them.
“If the decision -making is being made for the federal government in the same way, I am very worried about the federal government’s financing,” he said.
Neither X nor Dodge responded to the Associated Press comment requests.
With Eliminating the company’s workforce And Auction of memoirs And Office Furniture, Mask’s Extreme Cost Cutting Strategy on Twitter Not just paying his bills. Social Media Company’s headquarters in San Francisco, as well as its British offices, took the company to court Hundreds of millions of dollars to rent free.
The British case was fixed for an unknown amount. The San Francisco case was dropped last year. It is unclear if a settlement was paid.
Musk has also brought one of the XK real estate executives to the government.
Even if there was no success in the X cuts, it is unclear whether the same tactic will work to reduce costs and provide services to government agencies.
Nicholas Bagali, a professor of law at Michigan University, said that Kasturi and the Trump are arrogant over the cost of the Congress spending, not the executive branch, and they predict that these measures are legalized by them. Efforts will be affected.
Bagley cited the Federal Manpower Rules to prevent political purposes. “This is all of a dubious legal status, and it’s already before you get before you get civil service protection “” “You are seeing a lot of bombings and rhetoric, but I suspect it will create less things on the ground.”
Some of the masses of Musk have tried to warn it against a very fast move, including prominent tech investor Paul Graham, who told Musk in the recent X -Exchange, “Take your time and be careful. From. “
The government is “not just a company. Companies are born inside the system and die, and okay. But this is the system we are talking about here.”
Investment firm German Kawasaki’s CEO, Gerber, the owner of the minority X -stock, praised Musk for creating a sense of belonging to his companies “special powers”. But he believes that musky in Washington will fail.
“The idea that you can fired all these people, they don’t work,” he said. “We’re going to see an epic war.”
