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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 49 points 8 months ago

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 23 points 8 months ago

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

[-] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 40 points 8 months ago

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

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months 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

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 39 points 8 months 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.”

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months 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

[-] barbedbeard@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

[-] ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

The beatings will stop when morale improves?

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Physically remove management. Take ownership of the means of production.

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Has Tesla not gone bankrupt yet?

[-] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A few years ago I used to build trains, the factory was run like shit in all sorts of ways (The one that did my head in the most was to do a job we had to get a build instruction, but people would take and keep these.), it was as though no one was in charge. But every Friday management would stand in front of us and give us this motivational speech about how we had to pull it together and it was all on us.

The point being, over worked, under appreciated, disrespected staff aren’t to blame.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

don't bring your personal life into work

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