2795

I came to say the same thing. I’d love to see Musk fired from TSLA.

2796

Weird doom and gloom about Tesla here. As of last summer their cars do extremely well in customer satisfaction polls.

2797

Their fit and finish is a valid concern not “doom and gloom”

2798

There are a lot of very happy owners that still complain about the fit and finish of the body parts. Maybe it’s cult like devotion. Or maybe most owners don’t care about the details that much.

2799

Well, people who have bought expensive luxury goods are generally not inclined to say they should not have bought those expensive luxury goods, which is what admitting disappointment or dissatisfaction would amount to.

2800

If I were looking for a sub set of consumers least likely to tell me the truth I’d start with early adopters.

2801

I can’t find it now, but a while ago somebody on Twitter posted screenshots of a bunch of fawning complaints for serious issues. They read like:

“Tesla IS driving for me. The car is perfect, and it feels good to be part of the solution instead of the problem. My only quibble is that water shoots out of the steering column when it rains.”

2802
2803

I don’t know if this is a lesson some people never learned, but here’s the reality: no matter how stupid your boss is, no matter how wrong your boss is, you just don’t contradict and confront him or her publicly in the way some of these people have without fully expecting to be fired.

This is not unique to Elon Musk or Tesla.

2804

Sure, but I’m guessing they know this and fully expected to be fired. That tweet up there expresses actual relief to be fired.

2805

It’s kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. Your boss is publicly (and incorrectly) criticizing your work. Do you:

  • Explain that he’s wrong
  • Agree that you’re bad at your job
2806

Musk wasn’t calling anyone out. Nobody in the world would know that one engineer had anything to do with the Android client.

The answer is you shut the fuck up and either fix the problem, quit, or find another job.

I guess another option if you have an actual rational person at the top would be to explain to him why he’s wrong directly. But Musk is not that guy.

2807

2808

Quit?

The guy is a douchebag, but I’d personally be wary of hiring somebody how has previously so openly criticized the company they were working for at the time.

2809

Or explain to your boss how he’s wrong, get fired, and find another job. Which seems to be what he did? I don’t get the impression these people are saying “woe is me, how is life so unfair”.

2810

The second round of firings that I linked weren’t for the guy who was disagreeing on Twitter, it was for 20 people who were disagreeing on internal channels.

2811

So huh what happened to Elon’s free speech absolutism?

2812

I think this take is wrong. Elon is the one openly (and probably cluelessly) criticizing the company, and the dude criticizes Elon, not the company. In the open, because Elon brought the issue into the open himself.
Considering the whole situation I wouldn´t hold it against this guy. He seems to have loved Twitter more than Elon ever will.

2813

Maybe I’m the yes-man corporate apologist, but even if my CEO were posting factually incorrect statements on social media about my department, the last thing I’d do is snap back on that post publicly and expect to keep my job.

2814

I don´t think he expected to keep it.