Grumpy old buggers thread

[RANDLOVER]

"Tesla's founder Elon Musk wiped $14bn off the carmaker's value after tweeting that its share price was too high.The tweet also knocked $3bn off Mr Musk's own stake in Tesla as investors promptly bailed out of the company.
"Tesla stock price too high imo," he said, one of several tweets that included a vow to sell his possessions.
In other tweets, he said his girlfriend was mad at him, while another simply read: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness."
In 2018, a tweet about Tesla's future on the New York stock market led to regulators fining him $20m and agreeing to have all further posts on the platform pre-screened by lawyers."

Oddly he would have been getting large bounus had the share price remained high "Tesla's share price has surged this year, putting the electric carmaker's value at close to $100bn, a mark that would trigger a bonus payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the entrepreneur."
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A own goal? After the pedo guy kurffufle and prior form with the 20 million dollar fine perhaps he should toss the tweet

Unless he is going to roll his bonus over in to mare shares?

[sashadidi]

Or tank the share price and buy back himself at a much lower price gaining more control, then try and boost prices again, get another
"performance' bonus,rinse and repeat,,,

[DiscoMick]

Seems to be a bit agitated.

Coronavirus has Elon Musk acting like just another used car salesman | Technology | The Guardian

[p38arover]

I dunno, maybe I do, maybe I don't, but as VW and its lack of morality and ethics are so widely known that its hard to believe that the power that be in Telstra dont know about it. So then the only logical conclusion is that they (Telstra) are quite fine with dealing with such companies as VW.

About 20 years ago, maybe earlier, mid-late 90s, not long after our company was absorbed into Telstra, we had to do a Ethics for Managers course. To me it was a waste of time because I was already working/managing ethically.

[p38arover]

*Not one but 2 idiot morons stopped in traffic on the railway crossing.

After leaving Telstra, I became a signaller on the railway. One location I occasionally worked was the signal box at the level crossing on Parramatta Rd., near Clyde. (Since closed.)

When a train approached, the level crossing lights and bells were operated but the gates stayed open until cars cleared the crossing. Only then would we lower the gates and give the train the road (green light).

On a number of occasions I had to leave the signal box and go tell the drivers to get off the crossing. They'd hear the bells, see the lights and stop - right on the tracks. Gaaahhh!

(Going into Sydney, there's a set of traffic lights just beyond the level crossing and it was coordinated with the railway crossing. They didn't go red until after the gates were down in order to let traffic clear.)

Google Maps

[JDNSW]

I remember that crossing! Mentioning it reminds me when I was about twelve, one of my older cousins had a bit of a problem there. He was driving down Parramatta Rd in his 1920s Austin 7, when he hit the bump of the first rail, the front end of the torque tube came off the back of the gearbox (I assume all the nuts had fallen off) and the front end of the tube dropped on the road - needless to say, when it hit the second rail, it stopped. So did the car. So did my cousin - when his hat hit the top rail of the windscreen. Didn't seem to do much damage to him though (probably not going very fast). He tied the torque tube up with some string, pushed it off the crossing, found some nuts, put it back together and continued on to our place at North Rocks!

I think of this incident every time I think of that crossing.

[RANDLOVER]

What is making me cross now (segued from railway crossing) is how a lot of the disposable cutlery is packed with the handles facing in opposite directions in the little packet, instead of the same way, so I have to touch at least one of the ends even if there are no hand washing facilities. Although I suppose this pro'ly doesn't matter if one usually uses chopsticks?

[4bee]

What is making me cross now (segued from railway crossing) is how a lot of the disposable cutlery is packed with the handles facing in opposite directions in the little packet, instead of the same way, so I have to touch at least one of the ends even if there are no hand washing facilities. Although I suppose this pro'ly doesn't matter if one usually uses chopsticks?

Have experienced that but lately I find them all facing the same direction.

What irks me though is the never mark them LH or RH.

[DazzaTD5]

Seems to be a bit agitated.

Coronavirus has Elon Musk acting like just another used car salesman | Technology | The Guardian

Grumpy old buggers thread being contaminated with elon musk bull****.

[NavyDiver]

Grumpy old buggers thread being contaminated with elon musk bull****.

I missed the elon bull dust till you got grumpy with it Dazza thanks mate

I wonder it the mods and you gents think of a "GRUMP of the week" award would be in the spirit? Being diplomatic and not greedy for a role myself, I would like to ask Ian V8 to be the judge jury and executioner Any post deleted by our generous mods should win on the spot of course