How in the world are there major news outlets that write headlines like this?
Elon Derangement Syndrome honestly may be worse than Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Elon Musk recently made a remark that he had DOGE workers working 120 hours a week trimming the government. Fortune, the serious financial magazine, brought in an expert to tell us that the DOGE workers aren't getting enough sleep.
This is insane:
To be clear, there are 168 hours in a week, which means if Musk and his DOGE employees are working for 120 of those hours, there are only 48 hours remaining for them to use for everything else: preparing and eating food, personal hygiene, not to mention free time for hobbies or spending time with their families.
Just for fun, let's assume you need to spend 120 of your 168 hours per week working, so you use the remaining 48 hours for sleep and sleep only: You still wouldn't come close to a full eight hours per night, which is what many doctors recommend. With 48 hours of potential sleep spread across seven days, even in the most ideal conditions, the most you could get is 6.8 hours per night. Assuming DOGE workers are not working from home (Musk called remote work "morally wrong" in 2023), it's safe to say DOGE employees working 120-hour weeks would probably not even scratch 6.8 hours of sleep since they'd need time to commute, unless they're squeezing in nap breaks during the day.
He got all of that out of an Elon joke about government workers being lazy.
Here's a live photo of the nerd who wrote this:
Pulling out a month old quote about Elon employees, who are all workaholics like him, and using it as a hit piece against the Department of Government Efficiency is peak modern "journalism."
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