Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

Post by erikpukinskis » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:01 PM UTC

jakobegger wrote: post #193

sweden wrote: post #154

I usually like Bloomberg, it's one of my favorite news sources but this article seems way off. They begin by talking about Martin Tripp's story (without any real details of what exactly happened), then they move to some random security guard with claims of sex and drugs in the factory, then they jump back to Tripp's story again and it takes a while for the article to get to the real point of Tripp's story which is: >…

> So he actually leaked information. Well, that's what a whistleblower does, isn't it? How would a whistleblower reveal that a company is doing questionable things without leaking information?

Post by xkjkls » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:21 PM UTC

marvin wrote: post #203

coldtea wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which doesn't mean anything really. If you have founded the company and own it, you can be CTO and delegate all the real engineering / research work.

Even Tom Mueller, propulsion engineer & co-founder of SpaceX, publicly acknowledges that Musk is heavily involved in key engineering decisions. I get that Musk gets a large amount of hate these days, but at least find something material to criticize. "He's not even an engineer" isn't just an irrelevant argument, it's also wrong. (Except in the "certified engineer" sense, which I don't think anyone is claiming).

Post by robdachshund » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:55 PM UTC

shkkmo wrote: post #126

protomyth wrote: post #77

To Antinoro, one of the strangest parts of the situation was that after he told the company the threat was false, it asked him to put out a press release hyping it. He declined, but Tesla publicized the incident anyway. Antinoro says he’s told his force not to bother investigating crimes at the Gigafactory unless Tesla starts cooperating. Big business, he’s decided, is its own strange world. “Standard Oil was probabl…

Umm... shouldn't the sheriff be fired for this? Investigating crimes is his job, corporate recalcitrance is not an excuse for not trying to protect that corporation's employees.

Post by iamdbtoo » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

vbuwivbiu wrote: post #219

iamdbtoo wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I think his heart's in the right place too." Trying to ruin someone's life is having your heart in the right place?

ahem...apart from that...I was referring to the higher-purpose of accelerating the much-needed transition to electric vehicles - it's kind of obvious that was my meaning from the context - I'm saying, yes this is shitty, but look at the bigger picture.

Post by baccheion » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 12:37 AM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #40

"Later that day, Tripp heard from the sheriff’s department in Storey County, Nev. Tesla’s security department had passed a tip to police. An anonymous caller had contacted the company to say Tripp was planning a mass shooting at the Gigafactory." Think of how this could have played out under different circumstances. We've already had numerous "swatting" incidents where innocent bystanders were hurt or killed. The mor…