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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They were somewhere over Las Vegas when James made his suggestion that they could move them now. It was the type of impulsive, impractical, surge-into-the-breach idea that Musk loved.

Musk and his renegade team were rolling servers out without putting them in crates or swaddling them in protective material, then using store-bought straps to secure them in the truck. “I’ve never loaded a semi before,” James admitted.

The moving contractors that NTT wanted them to use charged $200 an hour. So James went on Yelp and found a company named Extra Care Movers that would do the work at one-tenth the cost.

The servers had user data on them, and James did not initially realize that, for privacy reasons, they were supposed to be wiped clean before being moved. ... So James sent someone to Home Depot to buy big padlocks, and they sent the combination codes on a spreadsheet to Portland so the trucks could be opened there. “I can’t believe it worked,” James says.

LMAO who's this James guy and why does he understand Musk so thoroughly like his own spouse?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plot twist: Elon and James are the same person. Like in Fight Club.

James is the personality that comes out during particularly extreme manic episodes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

So all the dumb shit that Musk has done over the past year is all just part of project mayhem. (Don't eat the soup, it has piss in it)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But that would make him cool somehow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then think of him like OJ Simpson and Charlie. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

On CHRISTMAS FUCKING EVE! He has like 10 kids. He started a fire drill for employees on Christmas Eve, they have families too. What a cartoonishly villainous thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

James Musk is more of as "a fixer type," helping Elon Musk on various tasks, one insider said.

Twitter employees must've dreaded seeing this guy. "Oh no, Elon is with James again. Shit is about to hit the fan"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't imagine how annoying that would be. Companies with family members as employees, especially startups, are the WORST and most toxic you can get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A former company was full of nepotism. Chinese managed company with all the stereotypical inner circle politics.

The CEO's daughter was appointed "chief Green officer". We got metal bottle waters.

The daughters boyfriend was put in Sales, and never sold a thing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that seems to be the best case scenario for nepotism. Imagine if the daughter and her boyfriend were put into positions of real power without the expertise to back it up. The dad seems to understand and put them kids into harmless job role.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Chinese take nepotism to a new level

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But a cousin of Musk suggested to Musk that they just do it themselves, while they were flying from the Bay Area to Austin