Maybe it's just my anti-Elon (for his immigration stance) bias or my background in software, but that email is puzzling. I don't get what it was supposed to accomplish. I've heard people say, for example, it was to catch people who don't check emails, but it was very publicly telegraphed. Almost anyone who doesn't normally check emails would have known Monday was the exception. It seems like they could just look at records in IT systems to see who doesn't check emails anyway.
Everything I've seen about the actual email shows it not containing any threat of being fired or that failure to respond would be treated as resignation despite what Musk said on Twitter. It looks like he didn't have the balls to include that in the actual email. It looks a lot like "the Epstein files are on my desk!" to me.
Maybe it's just my anti-Elon (for his immigration stance) bias or my background in software, but that email is puzzling. I don't get what it was supposed to accomplish. I've heard people say, for example, it was to catch people who don't check emails, but it was very publicly telegraphed. Almost anyone who doesn't normally check emails would have known Monday was the exception. It seems like they could just look at records in IT systems to see who doesn't check emails anyway.
Everything I've seen about the actual email shows it not containing any threat of being fired or that failure to respond would be treated as resignation despite what Musk said on Twitter. It looks like he didn't have the balls to include that in the actual email. It looks a lot like "the Epstein files are on my desk!" to me.