guy's a complete tool bag
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A tool bag is useful and helps to alleviate a lot of redundant work. Everyone needs a tool bag.
I'd take a tool bag over Elon and day.
Who is this message even for? Not the workers obviously. Does it instill the investors with confidence? "Production is so poorly managed and staffed that we have to rely on people working overtime." Does it increase demand? "Come buy these vehicles assembled by overworked, sleep-deprived line workers, hope it works out if you get in an wreck!" It's entirely for his own ego.
There's a concept of paid slaves.
Don't buy that crap. 'nuff said.
I have a buddy with a bumper sticker that says "I bought this beforehe was crazy"
Delivered 4 - 8 years later, $25,000 more, 50 mile range, no screen and a radio tuned only to a station where his favorite coward of the moment reads their abhorent tweets
You're right and I agree, but on another note, it'd be nice if vehicles in general could be made with no screen again.
Welp. It's time for Tesla workers to unionize, and hard
Won't happen in Texas. There are so many people in this state convinced that unions are a horrible evil. Then they complain about how their job mistreats them, doesn't pay them enough, etc, etc, etc. You know, all the problems a union fixes. These people here are the very definition of sheeple.
Howdy, partner. 🤠
Even if I was working there still: Fuck that. I'd rather sleep in my car. At least it's warm and soft unlike the concrete on the factory floor that's covered in metal shavings and dropped screws. Plenty of people I met there did just that because it was easier to just stay there all week and only go back home over the weekend cuz home was like a 4 hour drive away on a good day.
But I mean... There are way better jobs. And if you're a contractor (which is like 90% of the workforce there): you ain't getting a permanent position, lol. Fr. You're just gonna be used up and tossed aside and I know the pay isn't worth it. Might as well be a McDonald's janitor for the same pay. At least you ain't gonna fuck your back and knees all up or work more than 8 hours.
How about... No...
"We really need the engineers to be living on the line. This is not sort of an off-the-shelf 'it just works' type of thing," Musk said. "That will be a challenging production ramp […] we'll be sleeping on the line, practically. Not practically, we will be," he added.
Man, can this guy rally the troops or what? With sentiment like this, who needs a pep rally or company retreat? /s
Worst. Boss. Ever.
I can actually see this working for some people who have been heavily indoctrinated their entire adult professional careers. For instance, some people who join the military. When you're used to sleeping when you can and missing sleep for watch or what have you, you're already used to being mistreated. As a result it's easier to lure you with supposed perks that make up for the mistreatment. .
I would hope it doesn't work for the majority, but I'm not gonna lie, the number of people working in the service industry suggests that my hope is misplaced.
I would for a price. I've done a few hard years. The issue is that he's likely not making it voluntary and not compensating people for the sacrifice.
He's so full of shit his eyes are brown...er than they were the last time his shit-spewing gullet was open
I mean, if you're required to stay there that'd be some mad overtime pay where I'm at: first 8hr at 1xpay, next 4hr at 1.5xpay, then everything after that is 2xpay.
I can't say I wouldn't consider it.
I doubt the regions this may be required in will have such labor friendly laws though...
According to another comment the workers are 90 percent independent contractors being abused. So no extra pay.
Somehow I'm not surprised... Fuck Tesla.
i saw a tesla truck today for the first time and it looked stupid. its seriously like something from a 90s 3d tank game
It looks like it came straight of a cheesy 80s B movie called Megaforce.
OMG I want one of those!
My pinewood derby car as a Cub scout looks very similar
I think that's the point. It hits a similar group as those old mini trucks (eg S10) from the 90s that get tricked out.
This is why the simple existence of billionaires is violence. You simply cannot become filthy rich without profiting off of the suffering of others. This motherfucker could pay people enough to never have to even consider sleeping on a factory floor. Hell, he could probably double his workforce and still pay that well and be filthy rich.
When your boss sleeps at the factory it shows commitment. When he makes you sleep at the factory it shows he’s an asshole.
He does know he can just hire more people and have them work shifts, right?
He is well aware. But if he did that he'd make maybe one tenth of a percent less and we can't have that!
This guy probably thinks he's doing his employees a favor by paying them for the work they perform for him
Sounds like a shitty boss. Also, I think OHSA is gonna have a field day with this.
Once the courts are done with federal agencies Deals won't have to worry about OSHA.
Man i don't wanna buy a car made by people who aren't sleeping in a bed. Come on, now.
Tesla's quality control is already shit.
Imagine how much worse it could get if the workers are even more sleep deprived.
And the conditions are still better than what the collective agreements would require?
Yes
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