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.
The leadership are responsible for the culture of a company, this includes the morale, any change can only, and must come from the top.
You’re not wrong, but unions can be a powerfully persuasive force.
Absolutely, they definitely contributes to the culture and morale at a place of work, but they can only do so much.
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.)
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.