Prepare to deploy World's Smallest Violin Orchestra for Elon!

[thewayne]

First up, he's being sued by upwards of $200,000,000 by former executives of Twitter. The former CEO, CFO, Chief Legal Officer, and General Counsel allege they are owed wages, health insurance premiums, etc. for unjust termination. Musk sacked them before they could resign when he took over, stating gross negligence, etc., then spent a year trying to get employees to prove said negligence and incompetence. They couldn't. Well, now they're back for blood, and they're likely to get it.

He's showing his true colors as an asshole billionaire: don't pay your bills. And he has multiple suits against him. I really hope they start getting some really nasty punitive damages that he begins feeling the hurt that he's putting on others, and that others flat-out stop doing business with him. Much like a certain former president.

The thing that's really going to hurt him in his defense for this suit is that he confided to his biographer that he did this on purpose, just to save money. That's definitely going to bite him in the butt in court.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/elon-musk-sued-by-former-twitter-ceo-over-refusal-to-pay-57m-severance/


In Tesla news, an eco-activism/terrorism group, for want of a better name, burned down a high-voltage electrical tower that powered the Tesla plant outside of Berlin, taking out its power and causing it to shut down an hour or so before the morning shift today. They were protesting the plant's excessive water pollution.

When the Muskbrat was stumping to open the factory, he said that it would internally process the waste so that the water discharge would be clean. Guess what! HE LIED! It's producing run-off six times higher of phosphorous and nitrogen than allowed, and the processing plant can't handle it! So much for properly handling it in-house. And the locals aren't happy.

Now he wants to expand the plant to produce a million cars annually, which will mean cutting down a lot of old-growth trees, and increasing waste output. You can imagine how popular that is with the locals.

Germany is pretty strict with its environmental laws, he's going to have to clean up his act. I don't approve of burning down power towers, but it definitely did bring attention to the pollution that Elon is putting out.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-accused-polluting-german-rivers-132031339.html

Comments

[acelightning73]

Guess who else is claiming that his vast wealth isn't enough to pay the court-imposed fines....

[disneydream06]

And No. 3, Bezos went ahead of his as the richest person. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMg, I hope they take him to the cleaners
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

I must state upfront that I don't like Bezos either.  But I will say that he seems to pay his bills and not make himself a big target to get sued.

[disneydream06]

Yeah, I am not a fan of his either, but at least he's not Muskie. :o

[murakozi]

He's not a good person, but at least he's not a moron.

[thewayne]

This is true.

[silveradept]

Straight out of someone else's abusive billionaire playbook, and we can hope that it will have the same kinds of results, where a whole lot of money has to be paid to people who were entitled to it before the billionaire tried to manufacture reasons to avoid paying it and to not be found liable for it.

[warriorsavant]

First directive of a lawyer to their client: "shut up." Corollary to that should be: "don't write books."

Mr. Musk is infamous for getting directive #1, heeding it for, oh 10 minutes, then mouthing off again. However, since this is a civil action, unlike an SEC fine, it could run into serious money. Sometimes the bizarre US legal system can deliver justice.

[thewayne]

Well, he does own one of the louder speechifying platforms in the world. :-)  But you're right.  If you find yourself stuck in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging.  So many people ignore this.

[garote]

Speaking of which, have you been on Twitter lately, as a new user? I loaded it up yesterday, using an account with no connections and a handful of posts, after a multi-year absence, and my feed was an endless scroll of ... well, really upsetting shit. Conspiracy theories and ragebait mostly.

[thewayne]

I haven't, can't say that I'm the least bit surprised sadly.  I have two Twitter accounts and haven't visited them in ages.  Makes it feel like I should sign on and delete them.  I did recently create a Bluesky account, haven't posted anything on it yet as I haven't found anything documenting how large of images that you can upload.