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.
Spoiler: it won’t be $25,000.
I do t think musk will get his 25 either
In related news, Musk gave Tesla an ultimatum earlier this month: increase his ownership in the company to 25% or he will cut back on its development of AI and robotics The billionaire already owns 13% of the EV giant, or approximately 411 million shares. However, it seems he won’t be happy unless he’s awarded another 12%.
Another ridiculous thing, the article says this new model might comes without steering wheel or pedals… .his self driving is no where near ready for that, especially since he cheaps out and uses cameras on high end models, the cheap one is going to have even worse cameras instead of the lidar they should all have
Give me more of the company or I’ll destroy the company
…or I’ll continue to destroy the company
Musk is shook over that earnings report. His house of cards is falling down and he doesn’t have enough rockets to keep it up. Tesla, Boring, Twitter – all failing.
There’s a concept of paid slaves.
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.
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.
When your boss sleeps at the factory it shows commitment. When he makes you sleep at the factory it shows he’s an asshole.
Wasn’t the model 3 supposed to be the affordable version
Is $25k affordable? How much are cars? 25k sounds like a fuckload of money.
$25K for a full electric car is the lowest price ever in the U.S.
I paid $21K for a used gasoline Honda Civic coupe just 2 years ago.
Chevy Bolt was under $25k before the $7500 credit. Now the same car is $40k.
Some people pay like $60-80k for those big trucks you see
Big bucks for big trucks?
“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 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.
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.
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.
Because fuck family time … This dude wants slaves. He can get fucked
It’s only a matter of time before one of the mega-corps figures out how to lease prisoners as cheap and expendable workers.
That has been happening for a long time already.
Where do you think his seed money came from?
Don’t buy that crap. 'nuff said.
Damn, he’s admitting his company is so close to collapse that everyone will have to literally sleep on the floor there just to try to save the business?
Bold move.
It worked for Twitter, right…. Right…?
guy’s a complete tool bag
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.
Saying we expect our employees to act as slaves, weird flex there Space Karen.
That’s a weird way of bragging about understaffing leading to overwork, but I guess it explains why they can’t kick those quality issues.
Statements like that are just going to make it easier for the UAW to unionise those plants. Union factory workers don’t sleep on the floor.
That does make a compelling campaign slogan. While I assume Musk’s statement should not be taken literally, IIRC he made similar statements about Twitter. Shortly after, there were countless reports of how awful it suddenly became to work at Twitter.
You’re actually right, this would look great on a poster. I hadn’t even considered that, it was just a statement of fact.
