Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they'll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV

webghost0101 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

They are going to get a big hourly rate and payed every around the clock even when assleep right???

Oh my bad thats just the standard privilege for ceo’s so of course they wont. Probably have to pay for their own food and hygiene products also.

O_i , 4 months ago

It’s weird cause he’s stated he did that in early Tesla days and hated it, wouldn’t do it again, but expects others to?

kandoh , 4 months ago

It's pretty normal for an auto factory to run 24 hours a day with three 8 hour shifts. 100% of them manage to do it without having workers having to sleep in the plant.

Sounds like just something he thinks is just fun to threaten people with. Gives those he's always trying to impress the appearance that his financial success is from working long hours, rather than random luck.

LesserAbe , 4 months ago

Good point. An example of how he's uninformed about the way his own business operates.

tigerjerusalem , 4 months ago

Every company want slaves, Elon is just saying out loud the quiet part.

Unionize now.

HeavyDogFeet , 4 months ago

Maybe it’s time for a grown up CEO.

Son_of_dad , 4 months ago

Why does anyone support this bullshit company with it's shitty quality vehicles and lies about what they can do?

HootinNHollerin , 4 months ago

I just don’t understand why Tesla hasn’t booted this guy

gwildors_gill_slits , 4 months ago

Because then the company and public would have to come to terms with the fact that they are wildly overvalued based on Musk's lies about their technology and capabilities and the stock price would tank. Also, the board is loaded with Musk cronies if I understand it correctly.

Nommer , 4 months ago

He makes them money still.

MyOpinion , 4 months ago

How about you actually learn how to build cars you moron.

Phegan , 4 months ago

They should unionize

mannycalavera , 4 months ago

Why aren't they already unionised?

ChicoSuave , 4 months ago

Threats from Elon

OrangeCorvus , 4 months ago

I don't know, is this supposed to be a joke? A wild sense of humor? If you would have to hypothetically have to sleep on the production line, it tells me the management doesn't know management.

I would like to see a CEO pull this "joke" in the EU. How long until he would be crucified.

a_baby_duck , 4 months ago

Didn't he literally have Twitter employees sleeping in the office post-acquisition and even go so far as remodeling vacated offices as makeshift hotel rooms? I doubt he's kidding here, seems on-brand.

Jode , 4 months ago

Illegally remodeling

AA5B , 4 months ago

The guy has no work-life balance and will likely put in insane hours. He’s warning there will be extra effort to put in, extra time, all companies do this but usually not so bad. While I’m happy not to work there, the important parts are whether he pays them appropriately for that kind of overtime, whether it’s temporary, and whether they can refuse without retribution

I believe I read that everyone gets stock, to participate in the success of the company. Surely that helps

ThatWeirdGuy1001 , 4 months ago

The guy has no work-life balance

Yeah cause that would require work.

And with as much time as he spends on xitter that doesn't seem likely.

BaronVonBort , 4 months ago

“No, of course it’s a joke about them sleeping on the floor. We will provide Tesla-branded housing onsite, and with the added convenience of the Tesla store and the workers being paid in Teslabux to pay me back for the room and board, they’ll always be ready to do my bidding.”

just_another_person , 4 months ago

I know you are joking, but this asshole's parents were legit in the business of running company towns for mining and exploiting human labor. Just shy of slavery because it was technically legal, but a loophole that allowed them to get rich by taking advantage of people desperate for work. Real pieces of shit in this family.

BaronVonBort , 4 months ago

Oh yeah, the apartheid emerald mining is never out of my mind when I think of this asshat.

scytale , 4 months ago

He’s building a tesla town in the Texas plant for that exact purpose.

LEONHART , 4 months ago

Good ol' Fink Manufacturing...

n3cr0 , 4 months ago

Sounds like a job for me. I would sleep on the production line 8h a day if they pay me for that.

maynarkh , 4 months ago

"That will be a challenging production ramp," Musk said. "We'll be sleeping on the line, practically. Not practically, we will be."

Sure, the workers on the production line, Musk on the line of coke in his private jet.

But yeah, Sweden does not need its unions, it limits innovation or something!

db2 , 4 months ago

Shut up, Elon. Nobody cares.

autotldr Bot , 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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Elon Musk warned Tesla workers to prepare for a challenging production ramp-up as he previewed plans to build a mass-market vehicle.

It wouldn't be the first time Tesla workers have reportedly had to sleep on manufacturing lines to meet the company's production deadlines.

Musk has said he slept beneath his desk while spending "three years straight" basically living in Tesla's manufacturing facilities.

Musk said that Tesla's next-generation vehicle, which Reuters reported is a mass-market, affordable EV codenamed "Redwood," is set to enter production in the second half of 2025 at the company's Texas Gigafactory — though he admitted that he is often optimistic with timing, and could not yet predict how many of the vehicles Tesla would initially produce.

The billionaire has hinted for years that Tesla plans to release a cheaper EV expected to cost below $30,000.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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