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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom April, but worth posting again: Just Some Of The Terrible Things Elon Musk Has Said And Done
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done-snip-
Running a company (Tesla) that was ordered to pay nearly $137 million to a former Black employee who said the company ignored repeated complaints that he was called the N-word and that his colleagues had drawn swastikas and scratched a racial epithet in a bathroom stall and left drawings of derogatory caricatures of Black children around the factory. (In a message to Tesla employees, a human resources executive downplayed the mans allegations, noting he was a contractor, not a full-time staffer, and that other witnesses had said that while they heard racial slurs, they were used in a friendly manner. The H.R. executive added that the company was not perfect at the time of the incidents, and is still not perfect, but has come a long way.)
Running a company (Tesla), where a female worker said sexual harassment was rampant, alleging nightmarish conditions and a factory that more resembles a crude, archaic construction site or frat house than a cutting-edge company in the heart of the progressive San Francisco Bay area. (The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Washington Post, which noted Tesla does not typically respond to press inquiries.)
Running a company (Tesla) that employees have called a modern-day sweatshop (In response, Telsa said it abided by California laws.)
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Reportedly exploding at executives and lower-ranking workers alike, and allegedly firing people who disagreed with him (Musk has denied allegations that he goes on firing sprees)
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Running a company (Tesla) that was ordered to pay nearly $137 million to a former Black employee who said the company ignored repeated complaints that he was called the N-word and that his colleagues had drawn swastikas and scratched a racial epithet in a bathroom stall and left drawings of derogatory caricatures of Black children around the factory. (In a message to Tesla employees, a human resources executive downplayed the mans allegations, noting he was a contractor, not a full-time staffer, and that other witnesses had said that while they heard racial slurs, they were used in a friendly manner. The H.R. executive added that the company was not perfect at the time of the incidents, and is still not perfect, but has come a long way.)
Running a company (Tesla), where a female worker said sexual harassment was rampant, alleging nightmarish conditions and a factory that more resembles a crude, archaic construction site or frat house than a cutting-edge company in the heart of the progressive San Francisco Bay area. (The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Washington Post, which noted Tesla does not typically respond to press inquiries.)
Running a company (Tesla) that employees have called a modern-day sweatshop (In response, Telsa said it abided by California laws.)
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Reportedly exploding at executives and lower-ranking workers alike, and allegedly firing people who disagreed with him (Musk has denied allegations that he goes on firing sprees)
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From April, but worth posting again: Just Some Of The Terrible Things Elon Musk Has Said And Done (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Nov 2022
OP
Hubs is in autos...and few refugees from Tesla went to work for another company...they
Demsrule86
Nov 2022
#2
Merlot
(9,696 posts)1. "...noting he was a contractor, not a full-time staffer," well then it's ok
"just" a contractor, not an actual human being.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)3. The guy is from South Africa...what can you expect?
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)2. Hubs is in autos...and few refugees from Tesla went to work for another company...they
said that Musk regularly roams the factory and rage-fires workers for basically nothing. They called him Dr. Musk Jekyll and Mr. Musk Hyde...he is in some estimation unbalanced-possibly mentally ill.