Thursday, November 17, 2022

Advice to Elon Musk

I am writing this post with a “tongue-in-cheek” frame of mind. This is meant to be more on the humorous side and not meant to be a hot topic for debate regarding the merits and demerits of Elon Musk’s decision. 

Elon Musk has ordered Twitter employees must work 80 hours a week. Therefore, employees are resigning in droves. Here is an opportunity for Indians in India. My advice to Elon is to move his entire Twitter operations to India. 

They will work for 100 hours a week for ¼ of the salary paid to American employees. If a Software Engineer is getting $100k a year in USA (Rs.83 lakhs per year), Indians will work for $25k a year (Ra.20 lakhs per year). That is Rupees one lakh sixty-seven per month.

Provide them with free breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And, free beer every Friday evening. They will become Musk’s obedient servants. 

Government of India will like it because they will be getting lot of foreign exchange. 

Just thought of another Idea. Outsource the entire thingy to Mr. Narayana Murthi. He will hire people with lesser salary and get the job done. 

I am not a technical software guy. Twitter is an app that allows people to write 280 characters and express their opinion. Does it need 8000 employees to maintain an app?

15 comments:

  1. We'll have to wait and watch what he does with twitter. And the results. For some reason, I am optimistic.

    80 hours a week? Even many indian companies work that long!

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    1. Thanks for your comments Rajesh. That is why I said Elon should move his entire operation to India.

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  2. Twitter was purchased for $44 billion by Elon Musk. That amount is slightly above the second place purchase bid of $0. Laughing all the way to the bank.

    Regards,
    Jack Dorsey

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    1. Thanks for your comments Jack. But the real guy who went laughing all the way to the bank is Parag Agrawal. He got $42 million as severance pay for being the CEO of Twitter for less than a year.

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  3. Are there no restrictions on the big corporates on the number hours that one can work maximum on a particular day and for the whole week?

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    1. Thanks for your comments Mr. KP. I just looked and copying from a page I found. Here it is:

      The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not limit the number of hours per day or per week that employees aged 16 years and older can be required to work.

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  4. Interesting time to watch out for Twitter

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  5. You are so right.. win win situation for all, though now here some people want all the money with few working hours.

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  6. It's painful to hear this comment being an Indian. Hope are dedication is not taken for granted.

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  7. Jokes apart, I won't surprised if he takes your fun-advice seriously!

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