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justinph | 3 years ago

Every time this guy tweets, I regret my purchase more and more. Can't he just keep it focused on the cars and the share price? Instead it always has to be some ego trip about how he is smarter and harder worker than everyone else.

I hope this pushes folks at Tesla to unionize. The NLRB has ruled health and safety are subjects of mandatory bargaining. If your employer is making you return to an unsafe office during a global pandemic, this is in violation of that.

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30944836|3 years ago

>Every time this guy tweets, I regret my purchase more and more.

You are certainly free to feel however you like about your own purchases, but I have to say, I don't understand it. Either you like the car or you don't. If you do -- great! Drive away. If you don't -- sell it. Don't see what the WFH policy of Tesla has to do with anything.

Tesla employees are adults. They are not trapped by poverty wages. They are professionals. They can leave if they don't like it.

I'm a die-hard WFH'er and also not a CEO. Musk should run his company how he feels best.

kenjackson|3 years ago

You don’t care anything about who the money from your purchases flow too? In most cases I don’t, because I don’t have much insight into it. But to the extent that I can keep my money from going to people I despise, I think it makes sense to do so.

grogenaut|3 years ago

many people buy teslas for the statment it makes about their views and priorities. so its not surprising those same people dislike when its not just about the environment amd now tangled up with musks world view of the day.

leokennis|3 years ago

I think this is a naïve view. If you do not like the next leader in your country, you'll not complain since you are not a trapped adult, and you'll emigrate instead?

People have a right to expect reasonable policies from their employers. It should not be "I'm the CEO, I'll do whatever I damn well please and you either take it or leave".

We are not in the 1800's anymore.

jasd|3 years ago

I would agree with you in most cases, but somehow can never convince myself to stay at Trump hotel ever!

bko|3 years ago

Why does this bother you? He's running a business and for whatever reason he feels its important to productivity have employees come into the office. I don't know why you're so confident that this decision is an "ego trip" as opposed to an effort to more effectively produce cars and help the share price.

> If your employer is making you return to an unsafe office during a global pandemic, this is in violation of that.

You're living in a bubble if you most employers are okay with indefinite work from home after two and a half years.

caffeine|3 years ago

This isn’t an Elon tweet.

> Can't he just keep it focused on the cars and the share price?

I actually agree with your sentiment, but for a different reason - I think tweeting is a massive waste of his time which I would prefer be spent either working on any of his amazing companies, or for restorative rest - but obviously I don’t get a vote where he spends his time!

For the same reason, I really hope he doesn’t buy Twitter - not because I don’t like what he’ll do, but because Twitter is a dumpster fire and I don’t want his valuable attention squandered on something so worthless as fixing discourse Twitter.

> I hope this pushes folks at Tesla to unionize.

Elon corporate culture/values seems like it’s definitely unique, and not something for everyone.

It’s probably better for everybody if those who aren’t onboard go work somewhere that aligns better with their values.

Tesla China doesn’t have these problems.

refurb|3 years ago

I mean this was leaked? He didn’t post it.

And isn’t running a business efficiently, including on site workers, “focused on the cars and the share price”?

_ph_|3 years ago

Admittedly, that wasn't a tweet by Elon, but a leaked internal mail. But yes, it hints at less than optimal working conditions.