Tesla employee writes of low wages, poor morale; company denies claims
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I guess he got this tactic from Trump, claiming that any dissent comes from paid protesters. While offering no evidence that it's actually the case.
> Update 10/2/17 9:20am EST: In a statement this morning UAW categorically denied that Moran had ever been paid by their organization.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-responds-to-claims-of-low-pay-...
Recent events may have had a side effect of making honest people need to work harder to prove their claims. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, we could have used more discipline and scrutiny there before the era of fake news anyway.
The day the printing press was invented is the day it was subverted to push propaganda.
The "era of fake news" is fake. It has always been this way.
I want to start with Trump's lies. It's now a commonplace that Trump and his underlings tell whoppers. Fact-checkers have never had it so good. But all politicians lie. Bill Clinton could barely go a day without some shading or parsing of the truth. Richard Nixon was famously tricky. But all the traditional political fibbers nonetheless paid some deference to the truth — even as they were dodging it. They acknowledged a shared reality and bowed to it. They acknowledged the need for a common set of facts in order for a liberal democracy to function at all. Trump's lies are different. They are direct refutations of reality — and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum. They are attacks on the very possibility of a reasoned discourse, the kind of bald-faced lies that authoritarians issue as a way to test loyalty and force their subjects into submission. That first press conference when Sean Spicer was sent out to lie and fulminate to the press about the inauguration crowd reminded me of some Soviet apparatchik having his loyalty tested to see if he could repeat in public what he knew to be false. It was comical, but also faintly chilling.
From Andrew Sullivan, a conservative blogger, here:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/andrew-sullivan...
Either things have changed, or the Soviets were doing it in the past. Only one of these statements can be true.
Update: This story went up with two headlines. One of them, "Tesla employee calls for unionization, Musk says that’s 'morally outrageous,'" could have been construed as Musk claiming that unionization itself is morally outrageous, which was not the case. We have replaced that headline with the other.Lol this could be any organization in the world. :)
The other theme that doesn't get exposed, is that the employee in question has the same attitude no matter where they work.
I was working at Best Buy/Geek Squad when they had their big "unhappy employee" expose, and my last point was very true.
There are plenty of happy employees at all these companies, people (especially Giz) loves the bad story.
It's a confirmation bias problem. If Gizmodo posted a bunch of stories about "People at company X say things are awesome!!!" it would probably be deadpanned.
In fact they appear to have raise 2.37 Billion: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tesla-motors#/entity
It really doesn't take many people to produce a car.
If you're working for a startup and they expect you to work long hours for pay below the industry standard and they don't give you stock or stock options, they don't get to play the "startup!" card.
We debate endlessly the risk/reward for stock options in a startup versus good pay and benefits at an established company, but if they aren't even giving you stock--
200,000 cars per year would be:
* 2% of Toyota's yearly output,
* 4% of GM's yearly output,
* 20% of BMW's or Mazda's yearly output.