I understand the logic behind Musk’s actions. My point was that cold logic isn’t a great trait in a leader. If you’re an executive of Musk’s stature and you treat your employees like interchangeable cogs without even trying to hide it, it reflects badly on your leadership skills.

Here’s the whole quote frrom a similar article on Uproxx:

Who said anything about handouts? Or are we now classifying wages (i.e. the compensation received for work performed) as a handout in Trump’s brave, great, new America?

It’s always nice when men respond to professional workplace requests with threats of sexual violence.

At my high school job, I once found out I had a dirty nickname with my male coworkers. I called them out into the hallway and TORE. THEM. APART. one by one.

Leah Remini is a goddamn hero and her show was absolutely riveting - far closer to a documentary than anything “reality-ish”.

Right? Like, the whole point of a strike is that you miss the people who are striking.

The original messages seem less horrifying if you hear the horn section and imagine Chevy Chase mugging to the camera. Wait no, they’re even more horrifying now.

Classic locker room talk.

It’s always nice when men respond to professional workplace requests with threats of sexual violence./s

Bob Ryan paid her the best compliment, which is she is the only person in her field who could call college and pro, men’s and women’s, as well as she does.

And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for the fact that he publicly claimed it on a semi-popular yet useless social media site oh wait

Because men who ask for more money are go-getters and assertive, whereas women who ask for more money are stuck-up and bitchy, of course.

yes. there was this study where they used one CV with a couple of names and send them to professors, and asked them to judge them on their competency for lab manager, and what salary they should get. Women always got the lower wage, and were more likely to not be recommended for the position. And it was the exact same…

I bet that guy was a peach to work with, even before all this. I’m sure when his female coworkers read his memo they thought, “Of course it’s written by that *******.”

In HR/Finance for a nonprofit, and what happened to us is the hiring managers were generally offering male candidates $1k-3k more than the low of the salary range, while we were offering women the low, or a $500-1,000 bump. Then, the men were more likely to negotiate, and were sometimes rewarded another bump.

HR people are quite susceptible to being mesmerized by adams apples/thick body hair.

To all the commenters over on giz: see this is why you can’t be writing shit like this at work. Whether you agree with what he said or not, it’s a liability for the company.

Ladies. Ladies. I have it on good authority that you weren’t receiving inferior pay for the same work. It was just *different* pay.