Musk: 40 hours per week in Tesla offices or else

[Eric]

My boss has been commenting on how everyone needs to start coming in three days a week. Being very polite about it, but the frequency of the commentary is increasing. I generally go in every day, anyway, but the offices have been pretty empty. Usually there’s nobody else on my floor other than a secretary.

Sounds like he's working with you guys and not being demanding, IMO it's a good approach. Prior to the pandemic I also liked going onsite to see clients as well just to get out of the house.

It turns out my company is also actively targeting Tesla employees for 100% remote work with sign on bonuses and all. There's so much work out there right now and we're all short handed.

 

[Eric]

And now this, his forcing people back into the office makes sense now that we his goal was to cut staff. It's a shitty way to handle it but if nothing else we've learned what a prick this guy really is over the last few months.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Has Paused All Hiring Worldwide, Needs to Cut Staff by 10 Percent - News18

Tesla CEO Elon Musk also said that he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy

www.news18.com

 

[Cmaier]

And now this, his forcing people back into the office makes sense now that we his goal was to cut staff. It's a shitty way to handle it but if nothing else we've learned what a prick this guy really is over the last few months.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Has Paused All Hiring Worldwide, Needs to Cut Staff by 10 Percent - News18

Tesla CEO Elon Musk also said that he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy

www.news18.com

You only ever hear bad things about working there - discrimination lawsuits, him suing former employers who say they are whistleblowers, etc. Does anyone actually enjoy working there, I wonder?

I drive by their california headquarters every morning to take my kid to school, and I feel like you can almost hear the wailing of a thousand souls…

 

[JayMysteri0]

You only ever hear bad things about working there - discrimination lawsuits, him suing former employers who say they are whistleblowers, etc. Does anyone actually enjoy working there, I wonder?

I drive by their california headquarters every morning to take my kid to school, and I feel like you can almost hear the wailing of a thousand souls…

i myself have always been interested in Tesla's, but once I started to read the stories about the racism & lawsuits I've been turned off.

I can't see myself supporting a company that actually has an area called "the plantation", where Black workers are sent. That and encouraging other groups such as Asian & Hispanic employees to openly be racist to Black employees as well.

Tesla sued by California civil rights agency, which alleges racist treatment of Black employees

California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing says it conducted a three-year-long investigation and received hundreds of complaints from Tesla workers.

www.cnbc.com

• Moved unreasonably slowly to “clean up racist graffiti with swastikas and other hate symbols scrawled in common areas.”

Seriously. How the fuck does swastikas end up scrawled ANYWHERE in the work place, let alone take your time getting rid of it?

Pile that on with a seeming dick who seems to enjoy trolling far too much, if I ever got an electric car it wouldn't be a Tesla.

 

[Cmaier]

i myself have always been interested in Tesla's, but once I started to read the stories about the racism & lawsuits I've been turned off.

I can't see myself supporting a company that actually has an area called "the plantation", where Black workers are sent. That and encouraging other groups such as Asian & Hispanic employees to openly be racist to Black employees as well.




Seriously. How the fuck does swastikas end up scrawled ANYWHERE in the work place, let alone take your time getting rid of it?

Pile that on with a seeming dick who seems to enjoy trolling far too much, if I ever got an electric car it wouldn't be a Tesla.

Yeah, if I had known in 2013 what I know now, I wouldn’t have bought the car. It sucks, because they make very good cars, but I don’t want to put any more money in Musk’s pocket.

 

[Eric]

Yeah, if I had known in 2013 what I know now, I wouldn’t have bought the car. It sucks, because they make very good cars, but I don’t want to put any more money in Musk’s pocket.

Regardless of what side of the political aisle one is on, openly choosing a side alienates half of your base as the country is pretty much split down the middle.

Stupid for anyone/business, even Musk.

 

[Cmaier]

Regardless of what side of the political aisle one is on, openly choosing a side alienates half of your base as the country is pretty much split down the middle.

Stupid for anyone/business, even Musk.

Especially when a company is so personally-associated with you. And then you do things like take a loan against tesla so that you can buy Twitter, so that you can eliminate rules against hate speech and vaccine denial. So you announce all that and think that the majority of the country is cool with giving you money for that?

I *guess* his calculus may be that progressive people will buy his cars anyway, to help the environment, and now he needs to make inroads into the 40% of the country that thinks running cars on ”clean coal’ would be just nifty.

 

[throAU]

Given he's announced a hiring freeze and desire to shed 10% of employees, maybe this work from the office or quit rhetoric is his way of getting people to quit rather than having to make them redundant and pay them out.


As far as buying a Tesla goes - I was interested but now I think I'm more interested in a Kia EV6, as they have dealers everywhere and there's ONE Tesla dealer in Western Australia.

 

[diamond.g]

Given he's announced a hiring freeze and desire to shed 10% of employees, maybe this work from the office or quit rhetoric is his way of getting people to quit rather than having to make them redundant and pay them out.


As far as buying a Tesla goes - I was interested but now I think I'm more interested in a Kia EV6, as they have dealers everywhere and there's ONE Tesla dealer in Western Australia.

The EV6 is quite nice.