Tesla told Austin workers on its Model Y and Cybertruck lines to stay home for the week of Memorial Day, three workers told Business Insider.
The break is unusually long, the workers said. Production lines were up and running during the same period last year, they said.
The electric vehicle maker notified employees earlier this week. The workers, who are paid hourly, were told they could either take paid time off or come in for cleaning and training but would not be working on the production line.
Tesla deliveries dropped 13% year over year during the first quarter.
Looks like they arent paying their workers for the time either. Sounds like things are going really well there. I wonder if the workers who fall below 32 hours per week will get their full time benefits (like health care) cut. I’d bet yes.
Or come in for training and cleaning. So they can still be paid.
The article says it is paid…
Edit: TIL that PTO means different in the US. Thanks for the explanations and downvotes 👍
The workers, who are paid hourly, were told they could either take paid time off or come in for cleaning and training but would not be working on the production line.
That wording is ambiguous, but given the alternative is “come in and do cleaning” my guess is “take paid time off” means workers have to burn their own vacation time if they don’t want to lose money. Otherwise, who in their right mind would volunteer to work if the company is offering paid furlough?
They likely have a lower salary for cleaning or training, often 2/3 or 1/2 of normal from my experience.
Yeah they’re not getting paid. I’ve been in a similar situation.
Also “give my employees paid time at home while business is slow” sounds exactly like the kind of magnanimity that Elon lacks.
Yeah, he’s not going to let those lazy workers get paid for just sitting around at home, even if this whole debacle is entirely his fault.
Take paid time off (PTO) means take your vacation time (or combined vacation/sick time). Otherwise no one would pick the “come in and clean or train” option.
I once worked at a place where every year they shut down the week between Christmas and New Year’s and you had to take a week of your vacation time then whether you wanted to or not (and we only got 2 weeks/yr). I started working there the first week of December, so I was immediately in the hole for 1 week of vacation time. It was such bullshit.
It could be worse, it could be the opposite. My brothers company does plant shutdowns in December and January, partly because too many people want off to keep the lines moving. However that’s also when they do maintenance, when they update the lines for new products, which my brothers company does does.
So, is it better to have forced vacation in December and January so the plant can shut down, or mandatory work Christmas week and Fourth of July week because you’re the guy updating the lines?
The article says it is paid…
Well, yes and no. I mean, they get a paycheck if they use paid time off, but they’d need to use some of their supply of that, which is going to compete with things like time off for being sick, going on vacation, etc.
Imagine having a set number of days for being sick…
Better not get sick more than usual or you fucked, what a country, the american dream
The article says it is paid…
Yes but in USA words don’t mean what they say, they are merely spin on something worse.
It actually means UNPAID time off, in normal human speak, but you can take some of your holiday and get paid for that.This would of course be illegal in EU and many other places, so an easy mistake to make unless you are brought up with the craziness of USA.
Uh oh!
ETA - I look at Tesla’s stock and scratch my head. Still way too fucking high. It should come down to about 1/20th of where it is at. Toyota P/E ratio - 8.29. Tesla’s: 161.22.
I mean…WTAF. There is some serious delusion going on with that stock price. Tesla’s “brand” is in the xitter. Are people just hoping that the U.S. government will prop them up at this point? Without extreme market manipulation by the likes of donvict, what other future does this shitty car company have?
Why are the humans cleaning. I thought Elon was building human robots to do that
Definitely because no one’s buying them. Elon is not generous with time off.
It’s not paid time off.
Edit: I used to work a salary position in Texas. On slow days it was common to tell the hourly employees we had nothing for them right now and to go home. The salary employees always had something to do.
They can “take” paid time off, meaning their few vacation days being used because of the failure of the company. Or they can come in to clean lmao.
This is just how Musk makes an organization “efficient”.
Cut to tomorrow’s video of him carrying out their staff lockers to sell on Facebook Marketplace for $45
Well yeah, I mean without the whole embezzlement of personal data from various departments thing. Hes already got that.
Well shit, I pretty much forgot about them during all of this.
Are they not quitting in mass yet?
The job market in Austin is shit right now. Anybody with a soul at Tesla likely can’t afford to go job-hunting right now.
It sounds like they may not have a choice in that matter soon enough.
I always start job hunting the day I start any new job. Don’t be loyal to your employer because they will never be loyal to you.
Tesla must Unionize!
Yeah, but Musk hates unions. The swedes are making a big point out of unionizing.
One of the reasons they moved to Texas was to prevent that.
Why? Are Texans stupid?
Yes
Awe.
Are you in awe of how stupid they are?
No 😂
Just disappointed I guess. I was hoping for a better answer.
You are in awe of how disappointed you are?
“Hey Patrick, What am I now?”
“Uh Stupid?”
“No, I’m Texas!”
This SpongeBob joke has lived rent free in my head since I was a literal toddler.
They elect stupid people. Also shitty people. Their labor laws are horribly anti-worker/very pro- company.
Because there’s a regulatory environment there that is deeply hostile to unions.
Why? There really isn’t a path to profitability now. The brand is dead internationally and domestically.
I’m predicting the breaking news story for June 2nd is they find out they’re fired.
a real George Bluth Sr. move
Fire Tom, and get your jackass brother out of here.
So an indefinite furlough… got it.
Happened to me there, though not as long. Friday, they told everyone on the line I worked on (S) most of us were being let go, but a few of us (myself included) were told we were staying. Fast-forward to Monday, they called me while half-way to work (this was in Fremont and I live in the central valley, so it was a 2 hour drive without traffic; which is never going to happen on the Altamonte) to say they actually let everyone go.
I am a cynical bastard, and I wonder if they told everyone that they were one of the people not being let go, then contacted them later to tell them everyone was being laid off.
It gives the workers a -temporary- feeling of relief. Which could stop a riot etc etc.
And it’s so very dishonestly devious that it’s deffo something that Felon Mucks would do, just because he can.Nah; like the first part where they said who was leaving and who was staying on was in person at the factory. Like a “stand over here if your name is called” thing.
That really sucks. I’m not sorry for Tesla, but I’m sorry for the workers caught up in the shit show.
Maybe one more Trump commercial in front of the white house might break the spell
Still waiting for those rushed Boeing Air Force Ones to start flying the Trump & DOGE around…
Down with Tesla
If anyone still has Tesla stock it’s probably a good time to sell.
The good time to sell was December…
Suppose it’s now a “less bad” time than it’s probably going to get.
Anyone who has a 401k likely has Tesla stock, unfortunately.
I expect whoever runs that is really good at trading.
Everyone that owns a S&P500 index or other similar ones owns Tesla shares. All pensions will own some amount. Collectively these pensions probably have 10s of billions or more in Tesla.
I was being sarcastic. But that’s scary.
It kinda is to be honest… The magnificent 7 as they call it, dominate the S&P500. I don’t have today’s figures, but recently it’s been as much as 30% of the index.
Any falter in big tech, or even one of these individual companies like Tesla, can have a huge impact on peoples pensions.
Edit: I guess if you still wanted to invest in something like this as a pension, but wanted to avoid a specific company, you could find a way to hedge against them to make it neutral. I don’t know if any do that though.
If anyone still owns a Tesla it’s probably a good time to sell it.
…as parts.
Yea pretty obvious. I need a car and Tesla would be a good choice if that fucking asshole didn’t own it.
Same. They sent me a survey for owning my 3 for so long. In the survey I pretty much gave the car good reviews. Then it asked me if I would buy another and pretty much stated I would not buy another tesla if Elon musk is part of the company. I doubt anyone reads the surveys but hey here’s to hoping. 🗿
You’ve contributed to the word cloud, thats all you need
Good choice? They keep bait and switching their own features, and their QC is garbage. Take Elon out of the equation and I still won’t buy their early access version of a car. I’m tired of companies treating end consumers as their play testers.
On top of that they’re all privacy nightmares
Tesla = Pinto
Someone already did the math and the rolling garbage can is even worst than the infamous Pinto.
Tesla will announce their new military grade model that the defense will purchase thousands of cars using tax money.
I mean, maybe that’s a good thing for any future resistance movement? The powers that be using highly flammable / explosive, unreliable, piece of shit glued together trucks that can’t handle a carwash.
A sign of strong and healthy demand
