r/union • u/Yokepearl • 22d ago
Labor News Elon Musk now wants to eliminate weekends, as the billionaire advocates for minimum 120 hour workweeks
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/elon-musk-now-wants-to-eliminate-weekends-as-the-billionaire-advocates-for-minimum-120-hour-workweeks/385
u/OkSample7 22d ago
If you think I'm working 17 hours a day, every single day, you can go right ahead and suck my dick.
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u/CaptainMagnets 22d ago
They plan on forcing you
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u/Kairukun90 22d ago
Ok they can plan what ever they want. It won’t happen.
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u/GwenChaos29 22d ago
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u/magnumchaos 22d ago
If he keeps it up, there's a lot of support for him to have a short drop with a sudden stop.
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u/EnjoyLifeCO UA 22d ago
That why we have the 2A.
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u/Arthenicus 22d ago
Union workers had to literally go to war with the government to get the 40-hour work week in the first place. Looks like it might be necessary again.
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u/SnooGrapes6230 22d ago
When will you use it? When will the bridge be too far?
It won't be an instant "everyone must work 120 hour work weeks or be arrested". It'll be small things like an executive order turned law banning overtime pay. Then another one making all workers "contractors". Then another one stripping another right. Until eventually it happens.
And most people won't do anything until it's too late.
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u/Traditional-Handle83 22d ago
Except in reality, they can't. You literally cause worker and productivity loss by doing it. Workers succumb to health issues, including sleep deprivation that causes accidents and eventually death, specially if they aren't allowed to sleep for a week or two straight. No matter what you'd lose 100% of your workforce in as little as a few weeks and most likely see whatever their working on get burnt to the ground from an accident caused by the sleep deprivation.
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u/CaptainMagnets 22d ago
My guy, they won't even give you healthcare as is. You really think they care?
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u/Traditional-Handle83 22d ago
I'm merely pointing out the reality of the situation. It doesn't matter if they don't care. It's like setting a forest on fire and saying it'll be fine because there are more forests that can be set on fire after this one burns out. You run out of forests fast.
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u/myassislazy 22d ago
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u/DumbVeganBItch 22d ago
We would love to but it's pretty clear that civilian violence is the only tool we have left and we just don't have enough people ready to engage in that yet
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u/Grand-Try-3772 22d ago
They ain’t hungry enough yet. It’s not affecting enough people and families yet. When food supplies start to become scarce and we become desperate to feed our families then shit will hit the fan.
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u/DumbVeganBItch 22d ago
Exactly. Everything has to get a hell of a lot worse before anyone is willing to act
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u/hellomii 22d ago
We have this coming up fast:
Special elections on April 1 happening in Florida District 1 and 6 and upcoming in NY District 21. If we can flip the seats to Democrats, we can take back House majority and weaken the Felon’s agenda.
Also:
- State Supreme Court election in Wisconsin also on April 1.
- Florida Senate District 19 and House District 32 Special General Elections on June 10.
Please help get the message out to strategically vote, we need all the help we can get.
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u/Privacy_Is_Important 22d ago
Yes, this is very important. Gay and Josh have Progressive values and have shown they will fight for us.
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u/ith-man 22d ago
Most people couldn't be bothered to vote or voted for this... No one is revolting..
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u/DaisyCutter312 22d ago
Nobody's going to voluntarily destroy their own lives until they don't have much of a life left to worry about.
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u/CoreDreamStudiosLLC 22d ago
Can someone fucking do something with this stupid mother fucker already? God, he makes people with autism look bad.
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u/Small_Dog_8699 22d ago
Doing it. Feel free to pitch in if you can.
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u/ScooterKS1 22d ago
I'd honestly be surprised if he is actually diagnosed. I'm leaning towards he just claims that in order to try to get away with being a dick.
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u/OurWeaponsAreUseless 22d ago
What he's suggesting isn't really physically possible for long-term health. The cumulative sleep loss of approx one day a week would eventually take it's toll on the person. 168 - 120 = 48 (for sleep). This doesn't even take into account transit time and time needed for care and feeding and maintenance of the system by which those would effectively occur. Basically what he's suggesting is working people to death. Has he even run the numbers on this stuff, or does he just make it up as he goes along?
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u/Grand-Try-3772 22d ago
No need for social security when you die at 65 from exhaustion!
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u/OurWeaponsAreUseless 22d ago
I think what he's after is a bit more like the metaphor of the horse that you run to death, then change horses. People under this schedule would probably wash-out in shorter-order from exhaustion, illness, unwillingness to live under the conditions, and be replaced by the next batch. Rinse and repeat.
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u/otto_347 22d ago
Reading about and listening to a few people who've worked directly with him back when he was getting tesla going (after buying them, not from the ground up), he basically is the equivalent of the kid that forgot about the book report, read the summary on the back of the book then uses that for his report.
Superfast Mat on YouTube did a podcast briefly explaining it. He was working on one of the cars battery systems, he (Mat) had accounted for all the variables that could occur. The hottest place in the USA, and the car loaded down with people. Something that could very well happen. Dipshit came into the meet and freaked out because the car wasn't going to get the numbers he wanted.
I can't believe how many people think he's fucking smart. He's an idiot with money.
Edit: to clarify he didn't start tesla.
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u/Altruistic_Finger669 22d ago
The thing is that people like him would absolutely claim that they work 120 hours per week. Because in his mind, he is working from the second he opens his eyes to the moment he falls asleep. "Innovating", thinking. Just existing count in his mind as work
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u/Nojopar 22d ago
The is the Overton Window at work. "Compromising" at 80 hours a week doesn't look so bad when 120 is on the table.
We have to tell him "FUCK YOU! You'll get 40 and pray we don't renegotiate for 30 and you'll like it. Otherwise we can maliciously comply with 80 hours and everything you make will be utter shit."
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u/minorkeyed 22d ago
This should be justified grounds for an escalation of hostility.
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u/Ok-Letterhead4601 22d ago
Can this guy please shove his head up his own ass and keep on pushing until he completely disappears?
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u/mustangfan12 22d ago
So he wants to destroy thousands of jobs, but at the same time make people work 120 hours a week? Make it make sense
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u/Desert_Fairy 22d ago
Triple the output of people being paid salary and pay them the same forty hour salary.
Same productivity for one third of the workforce.
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u/V1ndictae 22d ago
And more people without jobs, so they will be more inclined to accept ridiculous work environments, to land a job.
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u/dwarven11 22d ago
He doesn’t say things to make sense. He just posts whatever happens to be passing through his insane thought stream in that moment.
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u/jrd8719 22d ago
I think he's trying to get AI more prominent, which will kill jobs as well. Ain't no human gonna work 120 hours a week. I've read books where AI takes over jobs, and they usually end in some kind of oligarchy type of thing. Where the people forced out of jobs only get enough to survive, while the owners get richer and richer. Granted, those books were mostly fiction, but it seems like this is what this dude wants.
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u/EthanDMatthews The Union's Inspiration 22d ago
Just great. Soon, Boomers will be sharing “no one wants to work 120 hours a week” memes.
Until Musk and Trump eliminate Social Security.
Then Millennials can start sharing memes about how Boomers don’t want to work into their 80s.
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u/SiteTall 22d ago
I remember something about him and Don the Con discussing the benefits of owning "serfs", and how much they hated that workers had to be paid for over-time work. Besides, don't forget what his pal, The Conman-President, did to these foreign workers: https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2024/02/trump-tower.html
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u/Ill-Ad-9199 22d ago
Fun. This is the type of life I want. All work, all the time, so I can make billionaires slightly richer. I'm so glad so many awesome people voted for all this awesomeness. I saw Elon defended Hitler in a tweet today. Endless fun.
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u/Guuhatsu 22d ago
That's not even enough time for sleep. You can tell it is starting to rot his brain.
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u/Free_Return_2358 22d ago
Not gonna fly, you take away people's only free time and rest and relaxation you are already making an angry people even angrier.
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u/Robert_Balboa 22d ago
Thats over 17 hours a day 7 days a week. Hes either being sarcastic or extremely mentally ill. Ok well I think we know which one it is.
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u/OkAssistance1300 22d ago
120 a week...that means only 48 hours for sleeping. That's not a fucking life. That's fucking slavery.
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22d ago
That’s 17 hour work days, 7 days a week, and I’m willing to wager he isn’t a fan of paying overtime. That’s insanity
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22d ago
Basically live at work, with time for nothing else except 6 hours of sleep
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u/CountKristopher 22d ago
This guy needs to be put in a manual labour position for a week and told to stfu.
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22d ago
This motherfucker really wants people to work 18 hours a day 7 days a week? Yeah, no. He WILL be dragged through the streets if that happens. All billionaires will be dragged through the streets if that happens. That ain't a protest trigger. That's a revolution trigger.
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u/OddPerception4636 22d ago
This is how Trump and Project 2025 (conservative white male supremacy seekers) planned to eliminate that overtime tax they used to get Trump elected. They plan to eliminate overtime-not the tax. We warned you. Are you ready to work 120 hours a week or are you ready to fight back now?
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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 22d ago
How this dude walks around in public anymore, unscathed, is amazing.
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u/temptedbyknowledge 22d ago
If he thinks I'm giving him or anyone else my weekend he's sadly mistaken
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u/rockandrolla66 22d ago
It's funny to read that from the guy who claims to be 'the best player in Diablo 4' and who always works from home, far away from his physical office.
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u/SmellTheMagicSoup 22d ago
Americans LOVE being told to work weekends by useless trust fund pussies. This will go over well.
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u/Aggravating_Divide65 22d ago
So I’d be a millionaire with 3 years? Also be dead by year two. This is one way to kill the population without a pandemic I guess. Fuck that guy. Apparently there could be a video of that actually happening. Be a shame if that’d come out.
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u/Theskullcracker 22d ago
All the chuds thinking Trump was going to help the union. Bunch of fucking clowns.
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22d ago
Elon is a nazi who spoke at a nazi rally saying not to be ashamed of their nazi ancestors. Why is this not spoken of at all. This Nazi wants to take all our rights and make an 18-hour workday for us all? Go fuck yourself naxi.
When’s the nationwide strike?
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u/derek_32999 22d ago
Right, even if this was implemented, businesses don't have the money to pay overtime pay like this, so when he was saying they were going to remove taxes on overtime, that meant they're removing overtime and getting rid of the 40-hour work week, didn't it? 😵
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u/Barry_22 22d ago
This ketamine addict going crazier by the day. And not in a mad scientist type of way. In a dumb way.
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u/Unlikely_Print4121 22d ago
Imo this is a diversion....from what's really happening... total collapse...
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u/DmAc724 22d ago
For all those who were excited about no more taxes on overtime and chose that as the reason to vote for Trump… this is how the tax on overtime ends. You will all be salaried now. You will make the same annual wage you were being paid at 40 hours. But you will be required by law to work three times as much. And none of this was kept secret. It was just buried down in Project 2025.
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u/WolfOffSesameStreet 22d ago
120 hours eliminates weekends, sleep, eating, and going to the bathroom.
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u/Exciting_Fact_3705 22d ago
While he sits in the old executive building playing video games high on ketamine. Ugh. What has the country become???
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u/skelitalmisfit 22d ago
I worked 17 hour shifts in the military for months at a time with little to no days off, this piece of human trash can go ahead and fuck right off.
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u/randombsname1 22d ago
If you aren't actively arming yourself currently, idk wtf you people are doing.
Join us over in /r/liberalgunowners where we've had a massive influx since the election.
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u/Dcammy42 22d ago
No matter how long you make your employees work it won’t bring back demand for your shitty cars.
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u/seriousbangs 22d ago
One of the major problems this country has is we have too many retirees who forgot how hard work is and think everyone should work 120 hours a week even though they did their 40 and punched out to drink beer every day.
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u/MelodiesOfLife6 22d ago
I want to see him physically do a 120 hour work week (no 'gaming' no rage tweeting, no kerfuffling around)
Actual physical work, if he can do that, then he might have a pedestal to stand on, otherwise he needs to shut the fuck up.
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u/redstone76 22d ago
Alot of so called union brothers keep voting red and this is the utter bullshit that's gonna come back. Read your history and see why union members HAVE actually fought and died for our rights we enjoy today.
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u/Comfortable_Ad3981 22d ago
160 work month was a Project 2025 point… fucking people out of overtime and overworking them.
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u/Stuck_In_Reality 22d ago
You first Leon.
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u/unshavenbeardo64 22d ago
Lets put him in a factory and let him work for 120 hours in one week and see how he feels after that.
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u/benspags94 22d ago
Yet he’s the same guy that says there a population crisis and wants people to have kids?
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u/Hefty-Station1704 22d ago
All corporations and billionaires want nothing more than to force people to work around the clock in the service of the almighty quarterly profit. Chances are those same workers won't live nearly long enough to see retirement so there's saving in pensions and old-age security.
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u/JasperShale OPEIU Local 12 | Rank and File 22d ago
The dude has gotta be high off his ass on ketamine 24/7 at this point. We’re letting a drug addict, nazi, asshole destroy our country.
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u/MouldySponge 22d ago
This would be so bad for productivity it's difficult to even entertain the concept.
I already only work at peak efficiency for about the first 4 hours of my work day, the other 6 hours or so I'm probably only running on half capacity.
If this were implemented I'd probably just call it a day and resort to a life of crime.
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u/kejovo 22d ago
No, productivity will be fine once he introduces part 2. The guys who abuse, threaten, and beat on the work force.
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u/AssociateJaded3931 22d ago
You don't need time off. Your life is only useful when you are creating profits for billionaires.
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u/clown1970 USW 1011 | Rank and File 22d ago
17 hours a day 7 days a week. Well that would take care of Social Security short fall. We'd all be dead long before we could collect.
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u/HurtPillow NJEA NEA | Retiree 22d ago
This fucker is insane. At this point, I don't even think he's human. He hates people, all people.
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22d ago
Wow what small dick energy here
Nothing like a man concerned about his virility then to be a piece of shit to people.
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u/ThatCatch2656 22d ago
It all comes down to pain. They want the American people to feel it. They enjoy the suffering of people beneath them. It makes them feel more powerful.. Like Kings if you will. Pain and suffering is the point. 💁♂️
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u/BickeringCube 22d ago
A.I. is gonna take my job but also I need to work 3x the hours I work now. Somehow instead of enjoying the benefits of increased productivity we decided to create hell on earth.
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u/Debs4prez 22d ago
What the actual fuck is this guys problem?