(02-27-2025, 07:56 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-27-2025, 07:40 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I'm most of the way through Musk's biography now and the tactic he's using with the emails is akin to what he did when he bought Twitter. He knew that a large portion of the Twitter accounts were bots and duplicates, so he started charging a small monthly fee to get verified. It wasn't to make money. It was a validation process to ensure the person behind the account was real because they had to provide a credit card number and an email. 

The layoffs are another tactic from what is described as the "Musk algorithm". The rapid turn arounds at SpaceX and tripling the output of the Tesla factory in Fremont was due to his efforts to streamline the process. His emphasis is on deletion of unnecessary parts, procedures and processes with the mindset that if at least 10% of the deleted factors aren't added back in later, then enough wasn't deleted to begin with. It's a method that has served him well.

Neither of you have your thinking caps on it seems. 
If I am exploiting Twitter, using a bot army, I can probably afford to "verify" a few of those bots if all it takes is a monthly payment.
If I'm a skeezy middle manager at some federal department who has fake people on their payroll and is collecting those checks, I can certainly make time to have my various alter egos reply to emails. 
If Elon's plan is just what you say it is, he's not nearly as brilliant as you seem to think he is.
He's either an average but very hard working intelligence who has gotten very lucky, or something very different is going on below the surface.

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(02-27-2025, 08:07 AM)The Drifter Wrote: Can the Biden Crime Family go any lower to enrich themselves?????

DOGE says Texas nonprofit with former Biden transition member reaped millions operating empty facility
As a result of the contract, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments jumped from $8.3 million in 2020 to $520 million in 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In a social media post, DOGE said a former U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021, where they helped the organization secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.

"As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023, the post states.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/doge-says-tex...y-facility

Both sides do no-bid contracts. 
The new guy complaining about the old guys no bid contracts is nothing new. Been going on for decades. 
What would be something new, is someone actually getting prosecuted over this kind of thing.

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(02-27-2025, 09:34 AM)Jag149 Wrote: Actually it is basic business 101. First thing you do when you are "fixing" a business that is failing is to watch the time clock, monitor login times etc.  I would suspect he has been doing just that.

Lol no.  Absenteeism and short-timing are usually symptoms of a deeper problem.  The balance sheet usually tells the main story.

Logging in and responding to an email is more difficult than you think, plus the act will lead to finding the fake employees. If you log in, you will be tracked. Either you are working on a government issued laptop and connecting to a VPN or connecting to a VM. So either way, they know where and how you logged in. If you use the same laptop, they will know. If you use different laptops, they will still know your network details. Are you going to try and hide your IP and location? Most government employees won't do that.

This catches people who aren't doing their job and aren't even bothering to log in and check emails.

Where the fake people come into play is at the management level. Would a manager really have an employee that reports to them and they never talk to them? I would find it hard to believe that happens but who knows. Likelier is that the manager has created the employee and is the one collecting the check or getting a cut of it.

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