Elon Musk Responds to Tesla Investors’ Call He Should Work 40 Hours a Week – Says He Shouldn’t be Compelled to Put More Hours at Tesla When He Hasn’t been Paid Since 2018

He doesn't need to work 40 hours a week to lie about Tesla, he's been lying about autonomous cars since 2013 and continues to lie about them. His robotaxi trials in Austin start on June 12, I wonder how many people they will kill?

How much can the guy work when he wets his pants he's so doped up, that would get any other CEO fired, who needs him around at all? Elon Musk is a low-life, I don't care if he has every dollar on Earth, he's scum.

If Elon Musk has been working the required hours in his contract, he should have been paid. No one has stated if the reason he isn’t being paid is because he hasn’t actually put in the hours he was supposed to. He would be the first person to withhold a paycheck or fire an employee if they didn’t work enough hours. His rules should apply to him too.

I just want the same thing he demanded of government employees. 40 hours per week on site and an email at the end of the week outlining his accomplishments. According to Musk himself, that's the minimum required of anyone. If he can't be bothered to follow those rules that he set for others, he can forfit his crazy pay package and be fired. "Failure to respond to this email will result in termination".

CEO is the easiest job anyone can pull. Over compensated and irresponsible. Not been paid. Nope paid in such a way as to avoid taxes.

Also aren't Tesla employees drug tested? Time to have Elon piss in a cup.

Tesla is dust unless they fire Elon and force him to divest himself. Even then it may be too broken.

That's extraordinary, this miserable investors. Using the intellectual property and hard work of a man who gi es the opportunity for them to make money and demending # of hours to be working(...)
To those investors i will pay them and expulsion them from investing in my company! Period.

Any questioning Elon’s dedication or work ethic should show us an example of anyone CEO currently living that has dedicated themselves more to innovation and success. This is a back-biting, hit piece by political hacks cheering his demise because he worked with their political enemies to stop Government waste and graft to corrupt politicians…the same Greenies who preached about Global Climate concern, like Bill Gates, but now want to see him to fail, climate bedamed!

Inventor? Not really. Musk didn't personally invent the electric car, the reusable rocket, or online payments.

Engineer? Sort of. He does have a physics background and is known to get heavily involved in technical discussions, but he doesn't sit in a lab soldering circuits or writing code (anymore, if he ever did).

Lone visionary? No. Most of the companies he’s known for were founded or significantly developed by others before he joined.

Musk is a founder of the company, is an owner of the company, and went public with the company. If he doesn't want to contribute to the company, "F" him and let him and all the shareholders he duped lose their investments.

Makes no sense, the article states he actually has only received $33k in recent yrs working 70 hrs a week. So he makes less then $3k a month and he's taking care of all his kids, bills, food, traveling and whatever else he has, that he can do it all on that income? That's a load. It's all a show.

Many CEOs have a tiny salary because 99.9% of their compensation comes from their stock in the company. This is an arrangement that publicly shows the CEO is working for the company's interests. Steve Jobs took a salary of $1, so that's 33,000 times less than Musk.

Musk is already the richest person in the world, and that's mostly because of his Tesla stock. If Tesla sinks, he'll lose 75% of his wealth. That's reason enough to do his job without whining that the absurd paycheck that *he essentially gave himself* cannot be challenged by people whose job is to combat corporate fraud.

Why do people believe that he should be allowed to sulk and ditch work just because a judge thinks the richest person in the world shouldn't be allowed to break laws to enrich himself even further? Lord knows Tesla could use that $50 billion after losing half its customers while Musk was busy with his hobbies.

His WORK? That happened before these investors had an opportunity to invest in a mostly up company. When someone creates a company, and the hours and years of time that go in to that, are what a person like Elon is entitled to. He created it, along with another person, I believe, but later more of his money, and he nurtured it, and made it what it is, for the most-part. Frankly a good portion of his own sweat and money is what helped deliver Tesla to the public and what has made many investors AFTER its success, rich. Yes, It’s true that he had other venture and capital investment early on, but it still , he made it what it is. And that earns him some kind of “pass” moving on, at least at some level. There are plenty of “Muskettes” to handle the helm, at this point.

Tesla is done. Felon agreeing with a fan page is so lame.

I'm sure people to think of 56 billion reasons why he should work more hours.

Trump acts like a spoiled 12 year old. Reminds me of Dudley in the Harry Potter movies.

I mean, how much did he cost Tesla with his massive failures with the Cybertruck and DOGE. Has he done anything worth being paid for recently?

One thing I will not do is believe Elon. The man has lied time and time again. If I have to work 40+ a week why shouldn't Elon? And for those who are behind him. How dare you say it not fair when so.w of you (if you have a job) are working 40+ a week. The double standard here is truly real.

I mean, how much did he cost Tesla with his massive failures with the Cybertruck and DOGE. Has he done anything worth being paid for recently?

Tesla will be better without Elon’s distractions and constant false promises he never keeps to Tesla shareholders.

No more lies. No more Elon.

It's absurd to say he has not received a salary so he shouldn't have to work a full week. However even if he was getting paid 150% of the highest paid salaried employees he STILL would not want a set work week. Salaried employees are paid for job not for the hours. His stock grant was grossly excessive. He should become chairman of each of his companies and let someone else run the companies as CEO or COO. Of course he is too selfish to allow that.

Speaking of double standards... Musk needs to be at his desk at least eight hours per day, five days a week, just like he thinks everyone else should be. He's nobody special. If he doesn't like the pay at Tesla, he should go find a job somewhere else. Pretty simple, really. He just needs to take his own advice.

I despise Elon musk. He's arrogant to think his employees must work in person then think he's too good to show up. Among other things.

As a shareholder, I can not wait until he leaves, he is an unstable bully that seems to be more interested in continually getting publicity - good or bad

Ok. Elon hasn't taken a salary from Tesla. BUT, he has taken $8 million/day off of government contracts. Don't make him sound altruistic. He's not. In fact, he's the guy who told the world, "The greatest weakness of Western Civilization is empathy." He gives none;he gets none.

I would think that before you made your ridiculous request/demand that you would PAY Elon what he is owed since 2018. Otherwise they should be told to pound sand! Give the man what he is owed!

Let's be clear about one thing. He has oodles of shares of Tesla. When he needs money, he takes the shares to the bank to get a loan, which he.does not pay back. This is how he never shows income. It's how all the rich dudes do it. It's just not talked about. Oh and BTW, a loan is not income, so it's not taxable. Cha Ching!

Elon Musk is my main man, leave him alone so he can continue to be the genius he is.

Why doesn't Mr. Dode perfect clone himself there wouldn't be much difference between the clone and him, they are both without, compassion, personality, humor, daddy Donny Dump, and screwing the American people that's you Ell Muskrat.

Just another example of Elon making up the rules as he goes along. Tesla is a major reason he is the richest man in the world. To claim that he isn't being paid enough to work more hours to rescue the company that made him wealthy - after which he tanked its value by turning it into a political football - just shows how little he really has invested in the long-term value of the company to its other investors, and to the planet.

Musk is basically saying "I've got mine, now leave me alone".