X must pay $600K to employee who didn’t click yes to work ‘hardcore’

A great philosopher once said, “You’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore.” Elon Musk is finding that out the hard way.

If you’ll recall, back in Nov. 2022, Musk sent what we here at Mashable called “his weirdest email so far.” The email, titled “A Fork in the Road,” followed a string of odd choices from the billionaire after he bought and began running the platform then known as Twitter. In that email, Musk issued an ultimatum demanding employees click yes to working “extremely hardcore.” Well, now that little stunt had cost X hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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