Tesla Rescinds Job Offers to People Who'd Already Accepted Them
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I remember a few years ago, it was one of the most desirable cars and places to work. Now I talk to people who are trying to avoid sending any more money Musk's way or work for such an employee-hostile company.
The quality and customer service issues have also started to leak out into mainstream consciousness too, which I think is ultimately going to kill them when they have to compete with Japanese and some American car companies at every price point.
Elon is also surprisingly silent, he hasn't tweeted in almost a week.
I don't remember that. Elon Musk has been employee-hostile for over a decade, and the build quality issues have been an open secret since the Model 3.
I suppose the employees who expected to get rich off RSUs would like it, but given that Tesla was supposed to pay less than many other companies, it seems like people could just buy shares with the money they make elsewhere.
Kind of like the 0.6 bitcoin I sold for $200 to help buy a Macbook back in...2014, I think. Assuming I held it until around, like $50k bitcoin last year, that would have been worth $30k (today it's worth $12,000).
What people call far-left in the US is essentially centrist in much of Europe.
Interestingly, back in the early days of the automobile people there were no "car accidents" rather "car murders" since the streets were mostly horses and pedestrians. Jay walking became a crime because of intensive lobbying by automobile manufacturers.
Deregulation has been a systematic effort by corporations to limit their liability for things that are not and should not be called accidents.
Wait, what? Tesla is only still a company because of EV credits from Democrats. Several of his companies would still hugely benefit from Democratic tax credits for clean energy and batteries, too. He has plenty to gain from Democrats.
I think his politics are more about Covid and pro-labor regulations than anything else. I don't think they're good business for him in the long-run, especially as he has started to turn off a lot of the people who should be enthusiastic EV customers.
In a way, this is what we want, at will employment and a highly liquid labor market leads to more fairness.
At least, that's what it'd ordinarily suggest - with Tesla, which like all his companies is operated as Elon Musk's personal punching bag, it could just be he's feeling grumpy about the economy and decided to pass the grump along.
Either way, choosing to go to work at Tesla is no more a good idea than buying one of their cars, despite how awesome their technology is. They're not reliable and won't be so long as Musk and his people are in charge.