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posted by martyb on Saturday June 27 2020, @01:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-care-of-employees dept.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/tesla-factory-workers-who-stayed-home-due-to-covid-fears-face-termination:

Two workers, Carlos Gabriel and Jessica Naro, say that they received termination notices from Tesla last week after taking unpaid time off in an effort to avoid the coronavirus. The San Jose Mercury News first reported Gabriel's termination notice last week.

Both workers say that they were contacted this week by Tesla's HR department. Naro was given the opportunity to come back to work if she committed to a return date. She declined because her 6-year-old son has a health condition that puts him at heightened risk.

Gabriel ended his call after the Tesla rep refused to allow him to record it. He hasn't heard back since and believes he is no longer on Tesla's payroll

[...] "If you feel uncomfortable coming back to work at this time, please do not feel obligated to do so," Musk told employees in a May email prior to Tesla re-opening its factory.

[...] In its termination email, which Gabriel shared with the Mercury News, Tesla cited Gabriel's failure to respond to emails and voicemails inquiring when Gabriel would return to work. Gabriel said he didn't feel a need to respond because he had been told he could stay home if he felt unsafe. Gabriel and Naro told The Washington Post that they had both been in regular contact with their managers prior to the termination notices.

Tesla didn't respond to a Thursday email seeking comment for this story.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by tizan on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:12AM (8 children)

    by tizan (3245) on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:12AM (#1013080)

    US has deep resources...we can keep people well and then look at the productivity in the future.

    1) make money now and kill people
    2) go into debt and don't kill people and try to recover later economically

    guess what they are doing ?

    US based companies has a big advantage over other countries the debt in in US dollars...you take a lot of debt and the country economy crashes then your debt is still the same..in many other countries the debt companies and country take is in US dollars and the country economy tanks and the amount you owe or produce in that country economy in the future you cannot pay that debt in dollars.

    Big tech companies are getting 0% interest loan effectively from the feds....apart from their hubris of showing they are making profit ....they are killing people for nothing ...as compared to agriculture or other food industries.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:14AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:14AM (#1013081)

    Listen. I have no idea what you're saying, but if you're saying that the U.S. Government is subsidizing corporate businesses like the Chinese, then you're wrong!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:21AM (#1013130)

      Thanks for clearing that up.

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday June 27 2020, @08:13AM (5 children)

    by anubi (2828) on Saturday June 27 2020, @08:13AM (#1013179) Journal

    The USDollar is the world currency.

    And only "The FED" can print them!

    For us, the only thing we need to do to pay for stuff is to "vote to extend the debt ceiling".

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @11:14AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @11:14AM (#1013198)

      No, The Fed is a private bank. If they print extra dollars they own them. Treasury then borrows them for the government to spend, leaving the american people in debt to the rentier owners of The Fed.

      • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:50PM (1 child)

        by anubi (2828) on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:50PM (#1013223) Journal

        We are sure running up one helluva debt to a private entity.

        Our founders gave their lives to free is from this,.... And what do we do? Let them right back in.

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        "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @08:57AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @08:57AM (#1013610)

          The Whiskey Tax and George Washington's march of conscripted men against the rioters in the 'West' (Kentucky or Kansas?) was about making the poor farmers pay an unrepresentative share of the taxes compared to the 'industrial' liquor distillers in the big cities, which thanks to the greater population there were more than willing to throw their mainly subsistence farmer peers under the bus for the benefit of the merchant class.

          Long story short, America is exactly the same as it was right after the revolution, as far as the antagonism between the city and country folks go, and both allowing themselves to be fucked over by the merchants and moneyed equivalents of the aristocrats whose yoke we formerly toiled under.

          Thank God for America! It's just like the Queen but for those who worship money instead of a wrinkly old white ass.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @01:24PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @01:24PM (#1013237)

        That's not really true. The money that they "print" belongs to the government. The Federal Reserve bank itself is private, but they do answer to a government appointee.

        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:49PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:49PM (#1013292)

          no, it's borrowed by the gov and the debt is owed in treasury bonds which is backed by US labor. One little problem: due to fractional reserve banking the debt keeps growing. The scum in DC know this but this is all a racket to bleed the american people dry, collapse the US and have a global plantation until they don't need us at all anymore at which time we will be exterminated. and you're funding it like a dumb fucking slave would.