Tesla whistleblower breaks his silence
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#2Can someone fill me in on how this story started?
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#3It appears the person in the video is Martin Tripp.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
Martin Tripp, a slight man of 40 who’d spent his career in a series of low-level manufacturing jobs before finding his way to the assembly line at the Gigafactory. Tripp later claimed to be an idealist trying to get Tesla to tighten its operations; Musk saw him as a dangerous foe who engaged in “extensive and damaging sabotage,” as he wrote in a staff memo.
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#4Everything you need to know about Martin Tripp: https://twitter.com/enn_nafnlaus/status/1291854536924168195
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#5Can someone fill me in on how this story started?
Tesla had (has?) many defects in their batteries and they were putting dangerous units into production cars when they should have been thrown away. They were also hiding the defects in the financial accounting by marking them as test units instead of scrap.
Tripp tried to bring the issue to management's attention. Musk and management ignored him. Tripp then went to the press. Musk then fired him, put him under 24/7 surveillance, tapped his cell phone using a stinger, and seemingly[1] ordered someone to "SWAT" him by calling in a fake threat that Tripp was armed and coming to Tesla to "shoot up the place". Tripp is now suing.
[1] Hard to believe that it wasn't done a Musk's direction given that similar things have happened to other whisteblowers (child services was called on another [I believe she is now suing], Musk personally called the boss of at least one other, Musk tried to get another external whistleblower arrested by falsely claiming vehicular assault [and also tried to get him expelled], that person is now suing).
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#6Is there any verification to his core claims? His videos meander so much, his claims are vague, and the statement about firing his attorneys is concerning.
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#7Can someone fill me in on how this story started?
Tesla had (has?) many defects in their batteries and they were putting dangerous units into production cars when they should have been thrown away. They were also hiding the defects in the financial accounting by marking them as test units instead of scrap. Tripp tried to bring the issue to management's attention. Musk and management ignored him. Tripp then went to the press. Musk then fired him, put him under 24/7 s…
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tesla had (has?) many defects in their batteries and they were putting dangerous units into production cars when they should have been thrown away. They were also hiding the defects in the financial accounting by marking them as test units instead of scrap. Tripp tried to bring the issue to management's attention. Musk and management ignored him. Tripp then went to the press. Musk then fired him, put him under 24/7 s…
https://www.scribd.com/document/471770054/TES-TRIPP-0028348-...
What am I supposed to take away? Some other former employee (who is broke, was fired and is trying to get his job back at Tesla) claims the problems were not that bad (Does he have expertise in batteries?). He makes a bunch of other unfounded allegations about Tripp claiming about getting paid (Musk in his deposition testified that there was no actual evidence for that allegation). The entire testimony reads like incoherent rambling.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tesla had (has?) many defects in their batteries and they were putting dangerous units into production cars when they should have been thrown away. They were also hiding the defects in the financial accounting by marking them as test units instead of scrap. Tripp tried to bring the issue to management's attention. Musk and management ignored him. Tripp then went to the press. Musk then fired him, put him under 24/7 s…
https://www.scribd.com/document/471770054/TES-TRIPP-0028348-...
This is 102 pages, what's the core argument?
It'd be better if you actually explained your position or made your point in addition to just commenting links.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.scribd.com/document/471770054/TES-TRIPP-0028348-...
This is 102 pages, what's the core argument? It'd be better if you actually explained your position or made your point in addition to just commenting links.
It's summarized here: https://twitter.com/enn_nafnlaus/status/1220153971668549637
I don't like to speculate. I would rather others form their own opinion.