“Hey, buddy, this doesn’t work!” he shouted at the engineer, another employee told Duhigg. “Did you do this?”
“You mean, program the robot?” the engineer said. “Or design that tool?”
“Did you f— do this?” Musk asked him.
“I’m not sure what you’re referring to?” the engineer replied apologetically.
“You’re a f— idiot!” Musk shouted back. “Get the f— out and don’t come back!”
Wow.
I figured he was engineering clueless. No wonder Tesla vehicles have issues.
It gets worse.
“After Model S engineer Cristina Balan emailed Musk about what she saw as serious safety issues in product design, she was escorted to what she thought would be a face-to-face with him. Instead, she was led into a security room and fired.
For years Balan has been trying to sue Tesla for defamation. But Tesla lawyers have been able to keep Balan's evidence from being presented to a judge.”
“One way Tesla lowered its injury numbers, according to "Reveal," was by denying ambulance service to some injured factory workers who requested it. Medical staff were told not to call 911 without management permission.”
This is horrific! At one point their injury rates topped that of sawmills and meat cutters (some of the most dangerous industries). Rather than document injuries, they hid them. One person was sent to the hospital by Lyft instead of an ambulance.
@feloneouscat a lot of horrific stuff in that article.....this one shredded me. Both my jobs took workplace safety extremely seriously....this was atrocious
@Jbart1055 I have worked in a variety of fields, from banking systems to oilfield instrumentation — every company took safety seriously (one place I had to wear a radiation badge — that wasn’t fun).
But reading that he attempted to dodge safety regulations and requirements as well as reporting just proves he is untrustworthy.
People are just pawns. Laws are just a problem to hack.
He seems, to me, to be a true sociopath.
@feloneouscat yikes a radiation badge.
You are correct...pure sociopath with a huge dose of narcissism
@Jbart1055 But, it was a safety check.
Musk probably would have said, “We’ll start worrying about it when they are diagnosed with cancer. Then we’ll fire them.”