Absolutely. I was very lucky during my career to have so every good very supportive managers. Those managers listened to the team, supported the team and made sure we had what we need to do our job.
One of the reasons that I retired when I did was that the company increasingly created management roles in India, where the culture around work is very different. I was taken from a team with a very supportive UK based manager and sent to a team managed remotely from India. These managers didn’t seem to listen at all and seemed to be in competition with each other to promise the earth to their managers without consulting the team. This created many issues of late delivery, which said managers blamed the team for. When I left, I had a long talk with the director of engineering and told him exactly what I thought. He did listen and I hope it made a difference.
I have been thinking back to that incident a few years ago involving children trapped in a cave in Thailand during a flood.
Musk won the defamation case that was brought against him, because apparently in South Africa everyone calls everybody a “pedo guy” 
I can’t help but think that he felt unbeatable after that judgement, and that if the result had gone the other way then perhaps we wouldn’t be seeing him call members of the UK government “rape apologists”.
Musk knows that if you have deep enough pockets the legal system is your plaything when it comes to civil cases** - not sure one case will have changed his mind fundamentally.
Trump has a long standing modus operandi whereby he fails to pay contractors, usually based on spurious claims of poor workmanship knowing that their only option is to sue, expensive for them but trivially affordable for Trump - so most don’t.
It amazes me he can find anyone to work for him.
**: though E Jean Carroll’s victory shows that oligarchs don’t always get their way.
If the rumours are true then the “Trump smell” would be enough to put me off working for him 
Same with Katie Price, bankrupt over and over but people still want to get involved, hero worship?
Government may be a bit different. Suppose you are a Tory MP who genuinely cares about the country, your constituents, and the party you joined. It’s not like a job that you can just change, and walking away may lead to greater harm than if you stay. Perhaps not so easy to walk away.
Mark no, please. Not good! It’s one of the issues women deal with every day - foul comments about their looks. Copying it and pasting it on as if it’s just a joke is just feeding the nastiness.
I think there is a world away from the silicon bankrupt to normal women Sue.
Who knows what is “normal”? My father, in his final months emerged from the toilet with s*** on his hands. I got angry with him, dragged him to the bathroom sink and scrubbed his hands. Later, talking to my therapist about my anger, she asked me “how do you think your father felt? What was he showing you?” Of course - so often (if we care to look) people tell us in their behaviour how they feel about themselves. I weep for her - she shows us absolutely how she feels about herself. She deserves our pity, not our derision.
I have read a lot about this woman, all her own fault and sticking two fingers up to justice and her creditors. Time she was made an example of to stop others thinking they are entitled and above the law.
… and in the process financially destroyed the real hero of the rescue.
How many more lives are going to be destroyed in the next few years as a direct result of his antics?
Your reaction is right, but I suspect that she may embrace the fuss like a friend, rather than see it as a sign of her brokenness. Not everyone wants or even likes a good outcome.
I suspect she’s very much damaged and deserves our concern rather than scorn.
So we overlook her many drunk driving convictions, contemp of court, and many many trades being owed many thousands of pounds, a walking disaster, that holidays around the world, continues to have yet more unnecessary surgery instead of paying her bills. Originally did feel something bringing up a difficult brain damaged child but no more.
BBC Radio 4 this evening, 9th January, about 20:12 UK time, a CPS representative ( Nazir ?? ) said that the CPS had been wrong regarding the action on " 800,000 cases " ! I have no particular interest in those cases, nor even the subject, but thought it worth pointing out at least one source of such a large number of cases !
Afzal?
He’s the source of the false speculation as to the infamous “Home Office Circular”.
Figures as high as 1 million have been claimed on social media but the evidence is thin on the ground and the figure has been arrived at by fairly naïve upscaling of the figures from the Rotherham, Oldham and Telford cases - since active gangs in those areas will have increased the level of abuse simply scaling the figures up to cover the whole population might produce a considerable overestimate.
Equally figures show that up to 11.5% of adult women report some sort of sexual abuse during childhood, together with the fact that there are approx 2.5 million girls between the ages of 11 and 17 (2018 population stats) you *might* feel that a 6-figure number was justified (analysis here).
There’s a gulf of distance between any sexual abuse and rape though and a much lower figure might be suggested by this passage in the analysis.
That wasn’t the point though - the point was that Mike plucked a figure from somewhere on the internet and, when asked if he could justify it, he just posted that mocking image. That is the problem. Not only do people not think, they scorn those that want to check before lynching someone - it’s the anti-rational approach to life which is so depressing and distasteful.
As the article in the Guardian today says, what Trump, Musk etc crave is attention dont’t give it to them!
Sociopaths, narcissists, it would be why Musk bought X.
