Dr. Elon and Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell
Yay for at-will employment laws... :-(<p>&gt; Over the previous year, he had been living out of a suitcase, putting in 13-hour days, seven days a week.<p>This story is a good reminder not to do this. The company will usually not return the favour, you rarely get properly rewarded for crazy hours, yet it has a major impact on your health (both mental and physical) in the long run. Not worth it.<p>&gt; It was not a 9 to 5 company. People were already working hard; now Musk was implying they needed to do more.<p>No wonder things were going to shit. Nobody can do good work if they don&#x27;t get enough rest and have too much stress.<p>&gt; Three months after that, it would report profits of $312 million, well beyond Wall Street’s expectations.<p>How much of this money did the employees get for all the overtime they were forced to work?<p>&gt; Tesla, ... that some aspects were “overly dramatized,” “abbreviated,” and “ultimately misleading anecdotes that completely lack essential context.” ... “Elon cares very deeply about the people who work at his companies. ...<p>For the sake of everybody working for him, I really really hope this is true and not just PR firefighting and that the story misrepresented what actually happened. I&#x27;m not convinced, based on Musk&#x27;s twitter outbursts and such, but I still hope this story is mostly false.