• Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    The engineers at Tesla have built some amazing stuff, but the CEO who drove them forward for so long has been holding them back for a while now. Time for Musk to go.

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        26 days ago

        Eh, I know nuanced viewpoints around billionaires aren’t appreciated on the corporate web, let alone the fediverse, but I really don’t think it’s as simple as that. Why did Tesla succeed where other EV companies failed or floundered? And why did Tesla, the company behind the ultra-desirable Model S and its peers, produce the unsellable Cybertruck and fire the entire Supercharger team?

        CEOs set the direction and drive the company to deliver on that. And Musk has lost it - from 95% genius and 5% mad to 95% and 5% genius. I honestly feel sorry for him in many ways - which I fully appreciate is a lot easier to say as a non-American right now! He will probably never again know true love or be considered an inspiration to the smart people he seems drawn to. He’s thrown his lot in with a bunch of bastards who would gladly tear down everything he’s built up. I am 100% confident that I will live a happier and more fulfilling life than him, as poor and stressed as I am. Poor sod.

        As the edgelord he is, I hope he’ll appreciate his inevitable future epitaph: “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

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          26 days ago

          Growth for the sake of growth is the mantra of the cancer cell.

          Elon has killed them at company. If when he bought into it, did a little marketing and then backed off and let qualified people design the cars and run the company, Tesla would still be a viable company. Where do they go now? The Cybertruck is a flop on the same scale as the DeLorean, the CEO is a straight up Nazi and Putin collaborator, and they can’t get rid of him or it will kill the company. The choice is either a slow death from keeping Elon, or a quick one from firing him.

          Or they can hire me. I can fix it, or at least not do any worse.

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          26 days ago

          Because the two engineers who actually created Tesla made a good product and musky boy immediately snapped it up and made sure to maximize the milking of the ev tax credit system, he’s been fucking it up regularly ever since.

          The reason it sucks now is obvious, the people who are good are gone, and musky boy wasn’t one of them.

          You treat these parasites as if they are some extraordinary phenomena, they are not. They are humans that shit just like you, sometimes liquid diarrhea. They are by and large not amazing, genius, or even particularly hard working people, they are just lucky chodes who got to start with their dad’s giving them money from their family apartheid emerald mine (and then stealing emeralds anyway).

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      26 days ago

      As someone that knew engineers that worked at Tesla. Interviewed and turned down an offer there myself.

      As soon as I graduated in 2015 and got a job in silicon valley I quickly learned that literally every real engineer hates Elon. Especially the ones that work at Tesla. And they treat their employees on H1 visas like indentured servants.

      Awful piece of shit company. But I respect most engineers that work at it. I’m glad the normies outside of the industry are finally catching on to this. For years I had to explain to my normie friends why Elon is a braindead idiot and they would just nod and not really understand why.

      I hope people start to understand that “tech bros” and “people that work in tech” are entirely different people. The SF bay area just happens to be filled with both of them.

      Very thankful I don’t live there anymore. This isn’t unique to Tesla either. But Tesla is definitely a perfect example for people to point to and understand now.

      Most engineers just wanna make shit. And most companies take advantage of a lot of people that enjoy their profession by overworking and exploiting them to an insane degree. Especially H1 visas. Those guys/gals deserve so much more. Tech needs a massive union push.