Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they’ll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV::Elon Musk said that building Tesla’s next-generation EV, which is set to enter production in 2025, will require Tesla workers to sleep on the manufacturing line.

  • @BaronVonBort
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    6610 months ago

    “No, of course it’s a joke about them sleeping on the floor. We will provide Tesla-branded housing onsite, and with the added convenience of the Tesla store and the workers being paid in Teslabux to pay me back for the room and board, they’ll always be ready to do my bidding.”

    • @just_another_person
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      6210 months ago

      I know you are joking, but this asshole’s parents were legit in the business of running company towns for mining and exploiting human labor. Just shy of slavery because it was technically legal, but a loophole that allowed them to get rich by taking advantage of people desperate for work. Real pieces of shit in this family.

      • @BaronVonBort
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        2610 months ago

        Oh yeah, the apartheid emerald mining is never out of my mind when I think of this asshat.

      • edric
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        1610 months ago

        He’s building a tesla town in the Texas plant for that exact purpose.

  • @Phegan
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    5610 months ago

    They should unionize

  • Tiger Jerusalem
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    5210 months ago

    Every company want slaves, Elon is just saying out loud the quiet part.

    Unionize now.

  • @db2
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    3410 months ago

    Shut up, Elon. Nobody cares.

  • @[email protected]
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    2910 months ago

    It’s pretty normal for an auto factory to run 24 hours a day with three 8 hour shifts. 100% of them manage to do it without having workers having to sleep in the plant.

    Sounds like just something he thinks is just fun to threaten people with. Gives those he’s always trying to impress the appearance that his financial success is from working long hours, rather than random luck.

    • @LesserAbe
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      510 months ago

      Good point. An example of how he’s uninformed about the way his own business operates.

  • HeavyDogFeet
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    2410 months ago

    Maybe it’s time for a grown up CEO.

  • @O_i
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    2310 months ago

    It’s weird cause he’s stated he did that in early Tesla days and hated it, wouldn’t do it again, but expects others to?

  • @OrangeCorvus
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    2210 months ago

    I don’t know, is this supposed to be a joke? A wild sense of humor? If you would have to hypothetically have to sleep on the production line, it tells me the management doesn’t know management.

    I would like to see a CEO pull this “joke” in the EU. How long until he would be crucified.

    • a baby duck
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      2210 months ago

      Didn’t he literally have Twitter employees sleeping in the office post-acquisition and even go so far as remodeling vacated offices as makeshift hotel rooms? I doubt he’s kidding here, seems on-brand.

    • @AA5B
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      The guy has no work-life balance and will likely put in insane hours. He’s warning there will be extra effort to put in, extra time, all companies do this but usually not so bad. While I’m happy not to work there, the important parts are whether he pays them appropriately for that kind of overtime, whether it’s temporary, and whether they can refuse without retribution

      I believe I read that everyone gets stock, to participate in the success of the company. Surely that helps

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        610 months ago

        The guy has no work-life balance

        Yeah cause that would require work.

        And with as much time as he spends on xitter that doesn’t seem likely.

  • @[email protected]
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    1910 months ago

    “That will be a challenging production ramp,” Musk said. “We’ll be sleeping on the line, practically. Not practically, we will be.”

    Sure, the workers on the production line, Musk on the line of coke in his private jet.

    But yeah, Sweden does not need its unions, it limits innovation or something!

  • @HootinNHollerin
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    1410 months ago

    I just don’t understand why Tesla hasn’t booted this guy

    • @[email protected]
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      1410 months ago

      Because then the company and public would have to come to terms with the fact that they are wildly overvalued based on Musk’s lies about their technology and capabilities and the stock price would tank. Also, the board is loaded with Musk cronies if I understand it correctly.

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  • N3Cr0
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    1010 months ago

    Sounds like a job for me. I would sleep on the production line 8h a day if they pay me for that.

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    They are going to get a big hourly rate and payed every around the clock even when assleep right???

    Oh my bad thats just the standard privilege for ceo’s so of course they wont. Probably have to pay for their own food and hygiene products also.

  • @Son_of_dad
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    710 months ago

    Why does anyone support this bullshit company with it’s shitty quality vehicles and lies about what they can do?