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“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.”
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.
Oh yeah, the apartheid emerald mining is never out of my mind when I think of this asshat.
He’s building a tesla town in the Texas plant for that exact purpose.
Good ol' Fink Manufacturing...
They should unionize
Why aren't they already unionised?
Threats from Elon
Every company want slaves, Elon is just saying out loud the quiet part.
Unionize now.
Shut up, Elon. Nobody cares.
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.
Good point. An example of how he's uninformed about the way his own business operates.
Maybe it’s time for a grown up CEO.
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?
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.
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.
Illegally remodeling
"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!
I just don’t understand why Tesla hasn’t booted this guy
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.
He makes them money still.
How about you actually learn how to build cars you moron.
Sounds like a job for me. I would sleep on the production line 8h a day if they pay me for that.
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.
Why does anyone support this bullshit company with it's shitty quality vehicles and lies about what they can do?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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