Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cutting plan

Post by clouddrover » Sun, May 19, 2019, 11:16 PM UTC

rando444 wrote: post #228

clouddrover wrote: post #150

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> This resulted in engineers that would purchase their own equipment and bringing it to work to use because they couldn't wait a month for a $200 piece of equipment. That's a mistake. You should never pay other people's costs. If the company wants to put itself in a position where work is delayed by a month for the sake of $200 then that is the company's cost to pay.

If $200 is the difference between being blamed for a late release, and being praised for doing a good job, I'll pay the $200.. and work to make that cash up in spades by negotiating it back from the company in the form of pay and position increases. You're correct that the company should pay, but not everyone is willing to martyr their career over petty cash. Choose your battles, as they say.

Post by Marsymars » Mon, May 20, 2019, 5:47 AM UTC

stabbles wrote: post #59

jancsika wrote: post #43

Suppose you buy a Tesla and in 10 months they fold. Who then maintains the proprietary software that keeps the vehicle running?

Are there historical examples of this happening in other companies? It's scary to think the answer to ops question is not immediately obvious.

Post by jmpman » Mon, May 20, 2019, 1:07 PM UTC

zaroth wrote: post #235

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I was certainly in the top few people placing my reservation. High enough that if they were delivered in order of reservation, I’d have my $27,500 Model 3. They opted to maximize their revenue by delivering the expensive versions first. A Tesla won’t be my next purchase.

Elon was pretty clear that they weren’t going to fulfill in order or reservation or provide the $35k configuration at the beginning. You may have missed out on the deal of the century. Sorry to hear you are missing out on the car of the century because of it! Mind me asking what EV you would get in its place?

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 21, 2019, 9:00 PM UTC

aortega wrote: post #72

Traditional car companies must be damn scared to have to publish this FUD. Tesla cannot be possibly dying out. Don't you see Tesla cars everywhere in the US? yes they are spending money, buying things to grow as they are so incredibly successful they cannot satisfy demand. Dying out? you make me laugh. If you spend 10M dollars buying equipment that in a year is worth 100M dollars, you are not dying out.