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Tesla tells employees to take responsibility for morale problems (insideevs.com)
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A leaked recording of a training during Tesla's week-long production shutdown outlines a serious morale problem.

Something strange happened at Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin, Texas the week of Memorial Day.

The production lines at the plant went dark and the 20,000 folks responsible for running them—whether it be the ones putting the final touches on Tesla's made-in-Texas Model Y or spit-shining panels on the Cybertruck—were told to take the week off if they had paid time off to burn. If not, it was time to come in and either scrub the floors or take some company culture training.

Production pauses do happen. Sometimes it's due to upgrading lines, other times due to demand problems (and it might be a bit obvious which Tesla is facing right now). Tesla's hasn't said which, but a week is "unusually long" according to employees who spoke with Business Insider.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago

"Leadership has kind of another level of responsibility for trying to guide and direct that culture," the instructor reportedly told attendees. "But at the end of the day, it's us as the people on the ground that are the reflection of the culture."

"Sure, we've had a history of sexual and racial discrimination of our workers by other workers, but if you are a woman or a person of color thats no reason to have low morale. Yes, our CEO did back-to-back Nazi salutes on live television while he had abandoned his responsibilities here at the company. Why is that a reason to feel down? Okay, so our company brand is a social pariah at home with regular weekly protests at our stores and people burning the cars you make. Also around the globe largely because our CEO has been invading the privacy of all Americans through the power of government and pushing far right political ideology in other nations and here. Is that a reason to let it affect your work? No. Workers, this is all your fault and its time you changed your attitude." - Tesla corporate instructors probably

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 32 points 17 hours ago

“Our executives make several times more than you, constantly work against your interests, and now can’t be bothered to do what should be an important part of their jobs. You dipshits need to take responsibility for improving your own lousy attitudes.”

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 34 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

LOL I would think their boss being a Nazi and a piece of human shit would effect Morale a bit.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Also, imagine you are on a first date. You ask them about what they do for work. And their answer is the 2025 version of 1942 Volkswagen

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 39 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How about the owner who is responsible for all this shit takes some responsibility? That would make both the morale problem go away and the demand problems.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Responsibility has drug interactions with Ketamine. Best to not mix them.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

K alone doesn't explain his drug addled behavior.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

he takes cocaine, and adderall too. plus lots of alcohol.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

But it does explain why he’s acting like he’s overcompensating for a broken dick.

(Because he is.)

There’s other drugs, I’m sure.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee -2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Have you ever done K?
It doesn't make you a dick. It's similar to shrooms.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

alcohol, cocaine, and adderall might.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Definitely

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No.

But I do understand a consequence of using K heavily is that it basically burns out the urinary tract. Which included things like the urethra.

K doesn’t make you a dick, no. But when you happen to be a particularly toxic sort of person, and suddenly have a dick that hurts to do anything with….

And now suddenly all the people in the world know it….

Yeah. It explains a lot.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee -4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

None of that has anything to do with k

You sound like someone that thinks weed turns you into a murdering chicken.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You may want to check your sources. .

I mean. Really

There's plenty of information out there about how heavy long term use breaks things. But, uh, sure. lets go with mocking people instead of actually looking things up because of "how they sound".

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I've actually done K a number of times, i know what I'm talking about.

You do not.

Wtf cares about bladder issues. That's not what we're talking about. Your entire point is ridiculous.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The leadership are responsible for the culture of a company, this includes the morale, any change can only, and must come from the top.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You’re not wrong, but unions can be a powerfully persuasive force.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely, they definitely contributes to the culture and morale at a place of work, but they can only do so much.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

If you keep hurting rich fucks where it hurts, eventually they cave.

And for them, hurting them in the wallet is where it hurts the most.

Unions are incredibly persuasive… but yeah. It won’t change until management changes it. (Or is changed heh.)

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

I am no longer sure that is where it hurts the most, for these mega rich dickheads you gotta go after their ego.

I don't mind having some wealthy people in the world, what I do mind is them ruining shit for others.

If Elon decided to just buy an island and retreat from the world at large (which will never happen), I wouldn't give a shit if he kept all the money he made, he would at least stop making the world a worse place for as many people.

Same goes for Trump, Bezos, Zuckerberg or any other person with insane levels of wealth.

They can keep all of it, just go away and stop making other people miserable.

At this point, that would be enough.

If they absolutely could not stop working, then they should only be allowed to work on how to actually get rid of the great garbage patch and micro plastics in the sea in general.

They have the resources and contacts to make shit happen.

[–] ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

The beatings will stop when morale improves?

[–] barbedbeard@lemmy.ml 12 points 18 hours ago

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

Has Tesla not gone bankrupt yet?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Oh, okay.