also the execs that quit are simultaneously useless and easily replaced MBA types. call me when engineering or manufacturing brass leave. i could care less about communications officers, HR and accounting leadership.
But it's a federal crime in the USA. So maybe it wasn't a smart thing for a CEO of a publicly traded company to do on camera.
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/federal-marij...
It's not like he's in Oklahoma where they could send him to jail for 12 years for that joint.
No. But I still think it was an egregious error in judgment. Do you disagree?
(FWIW, I don't smoke.)
If you think the only possible negative consequence of that act is federal prosecution, you are astoundingly ignorant of how things work in the United States. Here are a few possible consequences off the top of my head:
1. It could be used by corporate boards as grounds for his removal as a corporate officer. Or it could be used as ammunition in a shareholders' revolt.
2. It can be used as a grounds for denying his companies federal licensure for commercial activities that require it.
3. Those who politically oppose the massive federal subsidies his companies receive (and presumably want to receive more of) can demagogue this issue to mobilize public opinion against him.
> The laws are outdated and will be changed once it makes it's way to more states and we don't have an ignorant orange muppet as a leader.
Could you please keep this sort of puerile garbage off of HN?
At least for mortals, doing scheduled drugs may revoke your clearance, regardless of whether it's legal according to state law.
If one were to use words like "peurile" and "petulant" to describe the president, perhaps the same message could be more acceptably communicated?
Disclaimer: I totally get where you are coming from, and I realize I'm kind of being an ass with this comment. I myself oscillate on this issue of determining reasonable and productive language. And I think, in general, you are correct about what is appropriate for HN. I must say, though, that lately my patience for our dear leader wears very thin...
It feels more and more as if his antics represent a dramatic paradigm shift with unknown consequences. I'm often at a loss at what to think of it all.
No, it's not.
It's not illegal under CA state law, but it is definitely illegal in California, as the federal prohibition isn't conditioned on he existence of matching state prohibition.
Maybe you've never interfaced at the executive level?
The Chief Accounting Officer (second one in less than a year) is a "useless MBA type"?
Meanwhile, company burns billions. Paging "Shit HN says".
Yeah, you're right, the CAO has nothing to do with accounting.
I also loved "talk to me when it's engineers!"
Since 2017:
Doug Field, head engineer, gone. Matthew Schwall, director of field performance engineering, gone. Jon Wagner, director of battery engineering, gone. Kurt Kelty, director of battery technology, gone. Chris Lattner, vice president of autopilot software, gone. Satish Jeyachandran, director of hardware engineering, gone. David Nistér, vice president of autopilot vision, gone.
So many people here turning a blind eye, much like they did on Theranos.