X-post from TheDonald about Elon having beds installed to increase productivty.
BREAKING: Elon Musk's team has installed beds in the Office of Personal Management so "the team can work around the clock," per Reuters.
https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/19AKP3hADg/breaking-elon-musks-team-has-ins/c
For those missing the reference in the s08e02 Simpsons episode 'You Only Move Twice' with Hank Scorpio, a Bond villain type character that Elon has been compared to a few times, Homer while working for Scorpio has hammocks installed to increase productivity at the department he runs.
The two main twists in the episode, apart from the literal Bond villain events in the background Scorpio is part of and that Homer stumbles into a few times including catching and stopping the Bond stand in, is firstly that Homer is actually good at his [pointless] job rather than when working at the nuclear power plant for Mr Burns, and secondly every other member of the family is miserable; Marge has nothing to do so turns to day drinking wine, Bart is put into the special Ed class where he's unable to do anything, Lisa is allergic to everything in the new town, and Maggie might be in the episode but tbh nothing stands out as with the others.
Hank Scorpio is the most memorable one-shot character in the show's history.
He proved such a great boss that he managed to turn Homer Simpson into a productive employee.
Plus all that ad-libbing from his voice actor, comedian Albert Brooks--who, fun fact, has the real name Albert Einstein.
Agreed. Homer was finally doing great at work but his family not so much. I’d love to see him return whenever they do a finale. I’m f not then I want the series to end with them getting into a car and going to the recital from episode 1. Making it an infinite loop.
That one episodes premise was better than most shows pitch and they just tossed it after because they had other things to move onto.
Reportedly, the writers of the movie wanted to bring Scorpio back to be the villain, but for whatever reason were not allowed to, so they created Russ Cargill instead.
But they still brought Albert Brooks back to voice him, and he did a great job.
I honestly hate the "work 24/7" mentality. I totally understand it for limited projects, but for government work, you can guarantee that people are going to be abused. Not to mention that outside of corporate work it's a corporate-slave-plantation mentality.
"Welcome to Alphabet. You are part of the Alphabet Family. We are your family. Your children are dangerous parasites taking attention from your work. We are your real family, 12 of 23."
Especially when it's only the oligarch types who actually enjoy the spoils of all the "crunch" time in the end.
I don't hate the idea, but I don't understand why regular employees would want to do that. If you're in a startup with some equity, everyone's going to be super motivated to see it get off the ground and potentially become rich. If you're the boss, obviously that's your baby and you have to sink or swim. But otherwise I don't know what the workers are getting out of it. When they've succeeded Elon can take credit and go take a break in the Caicos or whatever he likes to do for fun but the guys who were sleeping in the office to make the government more efficient just go back to their day jobs?
Optimally, they would go back to their day jobs after purging the government so they could go back to being productive.
Elon’s a Founder, and those guys are hard to work for because they expect their employees to care about their passion project as much as they care about it themselves.
I worked for a guy like that once, and it was a nightmare. Never again.
If someone told me my job was to absolutely ruin the lives of people like Elizabeth Warren/Dan Crenshaw/etc. I'd probably do it for free out of sheer spite.
I can't remember if Austin Powers came out before that episode or after as they kinda made the same joke when he killed henchmen.
This episode premiered on November 3, 1996.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery premiered on May 2, 1997, almost exactly six months later.
Thx for the research!
Can he tell me where to find a good hammock or say goodbye to a shoe?
Mary's Hammocks.
It's on Fifth, in the Hammock District.
Don’t know why the idea of there being a hammock district always cracks me up
The fact that is an ultra-niche product that most people would never buy more than once in their life is produced in such quantity that there are multiple stores in a district that sells a variety of hammocks, and can be compared by reputation.
To be honest, it's the first sign that something's wrong. it's like seeing 8 mattress stores next to each other. You know at least 7 of them are actually money laundering fronts for drugs.
And each one has amazing food for no reason.
Never thought about it that way. Good point
Further evidence this is totally not Elon Musk back in 1996 with a flamethrower.
Man, it's approaching 30 years since The Simpsons were good & culturally relevant.