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Re: Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

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Post by marvin » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 1:18 PM UTC

xkjkls wrote: post #223

marvin wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Yeah, but is Tom Mueller, whose boss is Elon Musk, really going to publicly state anything else?

I think he’s retired now, and only participates occasionally in an advisory role...?

Re: Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

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Post by jaimex2 » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

choppaface wrote: post #250

jaimex2 wrote: post #222

He is not a whistleblower. Shame on Bloomberg for tainting the word. And he destryoed himself, any company would have thrown the book at any employee who did what he did. He purposely leaked negative and false information of no material consequence to Linet Lopez, one of the top FUD reporters on Tesla at the time. Look up her articles over 2014 - 2017. Her full time job at the time was to trash the Tesla brand. The "…

In what way is what he leaked “false”? Are the Tesla documents and VINS false? Isn’t Tesla’s report to the police objectively more false? Should we really allow Tesla to get away clean after their report to the police while Jessie Smollett faces felonies?

Stating Tesla lied about production numbers.

Stating Tesla shipped battery packs with punctured cells.

Stating he does not know how to code to sabotage assembly line.

Stating the waste rate at Gigafactory was abnormally high.

Stating he didnt try to frame a fellow employee.

The case will reveal more I'm sure, these are not hard things to prove.

Re: Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

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Post by netphobee » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 6:52 PM UTC

flippinburgers wrote: post #247

There is such a tremendous amount of dislike for Elon in this thread. I just don't understand. Nobody here holds a candle to his accomplishments.

Your username checks out, at least.

Re: Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

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Post by PKop » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 10:54 PM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #113

rayiner wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bloomberg conveniently left out the reason why "Tripp has since changed lawyers". It's because he published on Twitter a trove of confidential internal Tesla documents. Once he did that his lawyer knew they had no case anymore. Tripp only deleted the documents after his lawyer was able to get in touch with him. This showed that he did in fact access internal Tesla systems and he did in fact exfiltrate this informat…

Agreed, and these kinds of criticisms always get me eye-rolling. "On the one hand, Megacorp committed . But on the other hand, Whistleblower stole internal documents proving them. So, you have to accept, there's wrongdoing on both sides."

Reminds me of criticisms WikiLeaks