IMO, it’s not enough to just have Musk step down from the board, quit as CEO, or divest himself from the company. I didn’t like Tesla as a company or a brand very much before Elon went crazy. My issue with the company is that they were notorious slavedrivers in their factories since the very beginning and forced people to work overtime or risk being laid off to meet production quotas. I tried to interview at the Tesla Fremont factory and the guy doing interviews told me pretty straight-up that if I wasn’t willing to work 2 hours overtime every weekday, work on Saturdays and every other Sunday then I wouldn’t last a month at the company, so I didn’t take the job. As far as the brand goes, their quality control issues should be well known at this point - I see brand new Teslas with panel gaps wider than my finger rolling off of lots, so you know shit on the inside isn’t going to be any more well put together.
If I were to ever buy one, Musk would have to not be in the picture at all, the company would have to issue a public formal apology to the consumers for both the behavior of Musk while acting as CEO and also for the numerous lies told about the features and capabilities of the vehicles, and finally they would have to start gradually repairing their brand reputation by improving the QC process and start making cars built to last.
IMO, it’s not enough to just have Musk step down from the board, quit as CEO, or divest himself from the company. I didn’t like Tesla as a company or a brand very much before Elon went crazy. My issue with the company is that they were notorious slavedrivers in their factories since the very beginning and forced people to work overtime or risk being laid off to meet production quotas. I tried to interview at the Tesla Fremont factory and the guy doing interviews told me pretty straight-up that if I wasn’t willing to work 2 hours overtime every weekday, work on Saturdays and every other Sunday then I wouldn’t last a month at the company, so I didn’t take the job. As far as the brand goes, their quality control issues should be well known at this point - I see brand new Teslas with panel gaps wider than my finger rolling off of lots, so you know shit on the inside isn’t going to be any more well put together.
If I were to ever buy one, Musk would have to not be in the picture at all, the company would have to issue a public formal apology to the consumers for both the behavior of Musk while acting as CEO and also for the numerous lies told about the features and capabilities of the vehicles, and finally they would have to start gradually repairing their brand reputation by improving the QC process and start making cars built to last.
I don’t see any of that happening any time soon.