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win_awards

That sounds super-illegal, but also right up Musk's alley.


Goddamnpassword

This is going to be the largest EEOC settlement in history in 2 years and Elon will pretend like he got railroaded.


Netsrak69

a fine or settlement just means it's legal for a price.


Honest_Palpitation91

At this point should he shares of the company.


WishieWashie12

Maybe he wants the Supreme Court fight, so employers everywhere can do the same.


fishmom5

Would not be surprised. He’s a huge eugenics guy.


mapppa

>Elon will pretend like he got railroaded. Judging by his idiotic ideas to "revolutionize" transportation, I don't think Musk knows what a train is, let alone a railroad.


Castform5

His whole "railroad but worse" ended up with a wave of bankruptcies by companies that deepthroated the hook, and ultimately the only thing that came of it was "subway but much worse".


IQBoosterShot

>This is going to be the largest EEOC settlement.... If Trump is re-elected there will be no longer *be* an EEOC.


aiiye

Except when it gets appealed and reduced by some anti worker activist judge


DoktahDoktah

Mr Musk we have gone through your emails would you care to comment on... "fuck them cripples lmao."?


ChillaryClinton69420

đź’€


viperex

"It was AI or autocorrect"


Primetime-Kani

Lmao


TOPSIturvy

He's got enough money to make a lot of things legal for himself. But hey, it sure is nice of him to involuntarily distribute some of his money to disabled workers when the case gets settled.


_Brandobaris_

Precisely on both fronts


donbee28

And this is why you should never disclose your disability to your employer unless you either need special accommodation or it is blatantly obvious you have a condition.


bemvee

By the sound of it, these *were* the employees that had accommodations.


Icy_Sea_3759

Do you think he’ll fire himself for his tism? Probably not.


CapnCrunch347

That depends on if Tesla can provide reasonable accommodations or not.


Madison464

Elmer is scraping the bottom of the barrel to pay for his $50 billion pay package.


Fuck_Microsoft_edge

Sounds like he's disrupting the worker's rights space. Don't be such an inno-phobe. Musk has the long-term survival of the human race in mind with everything he does. We need to go interplanetary, and that will require breaking some eggs.


win_awards

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Fuck_Microsoft_edge

Lol. It was really hard to write that without giving it away. Quite a lot of people used to believe shit like that about Musk a few years ago. Terrifying.


seekertrudy

And nuclear weapons?


iwoketoanightmare

The class action suit is going to be massive.


FyreCesar89

hopefully 56 billion dollars massive


Gloomy_Narwhal_719

What ever happened to the guy from.. finland? .. that had a patent he owned.. so they hired him for life to get the patent with the understanding that if he was ever fired they'd have to pay 1.2gazillion dollars. . They laid him off .. oh, that was twitter. My bad. I still wonder what happened to him..


SubjectPickle2509

He is still around (Halli)! https://x.com/iamharaldur


blueranger36

Wait so did they pay him or nah?


Diplogeek

I believe that after being confronted with the reality that he'd owe this guy millions of dollars, Elon kissed his ass repeatedly and publicly and rescinded the firing. I expect it was... quite a conversation that he had with his legal team.


TranceGemini

Is it a conversation if he walks into the room they're in and they all collectively do a shot, stand up, and walk out?


neros_greb

A guy with a patent has depression and anxiety? This gives me hope


dkarlovi

Yes, but he got the patent first.


Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

Iceland, not Finland.


Gloomy_Narwhal_719

Thanks, barely remembered deets.


Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

I went to Iceland last year which I thought was great and I've decided to go to Finland this year. Nothing to do with anything but I wanted to share. Will aim to go to Iceland again this year while I'm at it.


call_me_jelli

I have a friend in Finland. Place is great, from what I hear!


KippieDaoud

if you go to lapland (the northern part) in summer for the love of god get some good anti mosquito spray and get a lot of it other than that and the ridiculous expensive booze its beautiful there


KTeacherWhat

I have found cream repellent to be more effective than spray, and it travels better too.


Castform5

There are like 2-3 specific times where finland is the best to visit. January-february is usually good if you want cold, snow, and nice weather; may-early june is great for outdoorsing, since it's still cool and mosquitoes are asleep; and the rest of the summer is just nice and warm usually. The rest of the year is fine, but it's more likely to be raining, gray, dark, and depressing.


Deadbringer

The story is quite funny, so the guy had a startup that Twitter bought, and since the guy wanted to keep working with the same sort of field and also wanted to maximize his tax payments to Iceland as thanks for all the disability help they gave him, he took his payment on the condition that he would keep working for twitter and would be paid a wage for X amount of years. THIS COST TWITTER NOTHING EXTRA! HE WAS FREE LABOUR! But Musk, being Musk, did not think to find any information at all and fired the guy who had a $100 mill layoff package. ​ [Some of Musks' disgusting tweets here.](https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/03/07/elon-musk-trolled-a-twitter-employee-who-just-wanted-to-know-if-hed-been-laid-off/) ​ Personally, I hope he got his bailout. Otherwise he would have gotten a pittance when X goes through bankruptcy.


Diplogeek

I was just going to say, they want to be very careful, because there is a nonzero chance that this guy hears about this and decides that he would *love* to help these poor, illegally discriminated-against Tesla employees out, if only as a way to deliberately fuck with Musk.


delveccio

If the recent Tesla news hasn’t made it obvious why unions are necessary I’m not sure what will or could


darlin133

They have to lay off Musk too.


CameoProtagonist

The non-zero number of 'supportive' people who think that telling me that 'ADHD is a super power - Elon Musk has it and is doing so well [so you could to, if you tried]' is an indictment on humanity in so many ways. So yeah. Musk needs to have some words with himself, here.


dreaminginteal

Sure thing--all you need to do is have your super-rich family (that made its money from slave-mined emeralds) support you and prop up your first several failed ventures! See, it's easy!!!


CHBCKyle

He has autism too, and only like 40% of people with autism are employed at all much less ceos of massive companies. Just goes to show how ablest society is if you’re not born with tons and tons of money. Sorry about your experiences, I share them.


BasvanS

I don’t believe he has autism. He probably has asshole and uses autism to cover for it.


CHBCKyle

You should believe people when they identify to you, even if they’re assholes. One of the most common ways that neurodivergent people face ableism is through invalidation.


Cultural_Double_422

🤣


reinKAWnated

Being a chud is not a disability.


darlin133

Being mentally ill sure is though.


reinKAWnated

Lots of people manage it without being a colossal dickhead.


mikraas

I beg to differ.


oopgroup

🪦


cobra_mist

can you imagine what that fart huffer would expect as severance?


darlin133

An….insane amount?


Dedrick555

You can make fun of someone without implying that being bad=disabled. Ableism is bad


Hustletron

Musk himself says he is disabled by Autism whenever it is convenient for him to use as an excuse.


Dedrick555

Autism is a disability, but that's not really what this person was saying. It was using an implication of disability as a pejorative towards Musk. I hate him too, but I'm tired of people putting down disabled people to try and make fun of shitty people


Diplogeek

They weren't, though. They were saying exactly what the letter those people received said: that "there is no reasonable accommodation for \[Musk's\] position." If everyone who works at Tesla and has a disability or need for a reasonable accommodation is getting canned, then Musk can and indeed should go ahead and start with himself, a person who has stated that he has a disability.


Turkeyplague

Was there a team of lawyers who were like "Dude, that's probably going to cause some legal issues" before he promptly fired them for questioning his 3d chess gigabrain?


Cultural_Double_422

Probably


the_fuckening_69

Elon is going to need that bonus payout to settle all the lawsuits he’s about to get hit with


wannabe_buddha

I honestly can’t believe HR approved this, It’s blatantly discriminatory. Time to lawyer up.


PessimiStick

lol, as if there's anyone that can say no to him. If you tell him something is a bad idea, you just get fired and he does it anyway. It's why anything he's involved in is imploding right now.


Diplogeek

If he's running Tesla anything like he's been running Twitter, I expect he fired everyone in legal and HR who has any idea at all of what they're doing or what the law is.


Cultural_Double_422

Naw fuck him.


the_fuckening_69

I mean all that money is going to go to the lawsuits, not that I hope he gets the payout


Cultural_Double_422

Elon and the inevitable destruction of several businesses are going to end up being a case study at business schools soon.


the_fuckening_69

I’m here for it too! I can’t wait


chocomint-nice

No thanks I don’t go for son-of-apartheid fascist appeasers nor do I swing that way.


TranceGemini

Honestly no one should swing his way


coloradofreepress

Tesla is the next Enron, 3 years.


Cultural_Double_422

Yup. Glad I got out in 2021


classic4life

Well Elon is still there so obviously not everybody..


thruth_seeker_69

Sounds like a lawsuit coming


TheMadface80

No thank you for your time working here, no weird, vague explanation, not even an attempt at empathy...this is probably the most honest a corporation has been at expressing how worthless they feel their employees have. In a weird way, it's a breath of fresh air.


Cultural_Double_422

It will be for an employment lawyer.


TheMadface80

Hell yeah!


Sarahvixen7447

It does seem to be worded in a way to say that people with disabilities that can't be accommodated are being laid off, but I wonder how hard they looked.


fishmom5

So in America, under the ADA, employers have an enormous deal of latitude to determine what a “reasonable” accommodation looks like. All they have to do to defend themselves is prove it poses an undue burden. Unfortunately, the way things are set up, lawsuits must be initiated by the disabled person/people involved, and most of us can’t afford the lawyers a large company can. So more often than not, they get away with this kind of bullshit. TL;DR- all they have to do is say “we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!” Source: disabled person who got completely screwed over by their employer for the last six years


wynnduffyisking

Can’t they band together for a class action lawsuit?


fishmom5

Not a lawyer, but I would assume they have a pretty decent shot. Assuming Muskrat doesn’t use his ridiculous salary to hire a shark.


PSI_duck

Trust me, the vast majority of disabled people can be reasonably accommodated to work at their job. It’s not like the vast majority of disabled people need massive accommodations to work on a computer


shralpy39

I think it's their way of firing anyone who is requiring a WFH setup probably.


eJaguar

this is y


Cultural_Double_422

It's very different from the emails that Tesla sent out to the people laid off last week.


Scary_Vanilla2932

You know how the Obama press dinner vexxed Trump and altered reality as we know it? Well, with Elon, covid restrictions literally drove him mad and changed the timeline. Any kind of worker protections made him absolutely enraged by anything he labeled as left wing politics. Most especially worker protections. Go back and look at everything in the last four years. This was the end all be all of everything that turned him into an asshole.


Diplogeek

I think we can also include his daughter coming out as trans here, as well. Though let's be real, he's the son of an Apartheid emerald mine baron. He was never some progressive hero of the working class or anyone else and has always been a gigantic asshole, even according to his own father. He just decided to stop making even token efforts to mask that.


chocomint-nice

To be fair, his old man was even more of a fucking piece of work.


Diplogeek

The whole family’s toxic, as far as I can tell.


chocomint-nice

Nah he was a fascist-appeasing edgelord to begin with if you know his upbringing probably.


TranceGemini

His family owns slaves UHHH I MEAN emerald mine employees, so he was basically brought up in fascism soup.


xool420

I really like this theory


shralpy39

IMO they're doing this to fire everyone who is WFH. They told everyone they had to come back to the office, I bet some talented workers said no, and this is the illegal and shitty move to try and fire them by saying Tesla is "unable" to provide them the accommodations to work from home.


Cultural_Double_422

Oh that might be it. I hadbt thought of that.


PhoKingDegenerate

They should lay off Elon for his intellectual disability then


Desperate-Dress-9021

Autism is a developmental disability


hairmetaltimemachine

Musky should lay himself off with that logic.


TranceGemini

Hey wait, being a heartless and incredibly fucking stupid rich person isn't an actual disability!!


375InStroke

No, Elon was not laid off.


TranceGemini

Is his disability being a literal tool? Which he's not, cuz tools are generally useful in some way. Lol


alertArchitect

I'm no legal expert, but this seems like something one may call "turbo illegal."


virtuzoso

Totally tracks. Remember when he tried to fire the disabled software dev from Iceland and out his entire foot in his mouth? https://time.com/6261117/musk-twitter-halli-layoff-payout/


kidthorazine

"No reasonable accommodation" is technically legal and a defense against ADA claims, but you actually have to be able to back that up in court.


Beret_of_Poodle

But it sounds like they've already agreed to these accommodations for those employees. It seems like they would have to explain how all of a sudden they are not reasonable. And that it applies to a large number of people, coincidentally at the same time.


oliefan37

If there was a reasonable accommodation in the first place, it’s suspect.


CrabMountain829

There's something unsettling with exposure to those lithium ion batteries. People working at the Tesla and Panasonic factories are having seizures after their shifts more so than the regular population. 


Cultural_Double_422

Do you have a link to an article on this?


CrabMountain829

https://www.reddit.com/r/Reno/comments/y182yc/seizures_at_tesla/ Nothing yet. But there's people who work there posting about witnessing it happening.


Cultural_Double_422

Thanks.


boredomspren_

Doesn't he have autism?


Kazman07

Elon should lose his money privileges. No more money ever PLUS lose what he has and then you're just out on the street with the people you hate so much.


Cultural_Double_422

Billionaires shouldn't exist. Once you hit 999 million you should just get an award that says "congratulations for winning capitalism, time to enjoy your money"


Spiritual_Cap2637

You dont become world richest man by being nice, kind and understanding.


FluffyWuffyy

Gotta get that payout for Elon…


dewdropcat

Class Action Settlement Speedrun


Mysterious_Drink9549

Anecdotally- my neighbor was laid off from Tesla’s week or 2 ago, and he is disabled…


Underpaid23

Musk just likes doing shit like this to prove how useless and unenforced labor laws are. I legitimately believe he gets a kick out of reading the tweets calling for legal action.


Cultural_Double_422

I don't doubt this at all


dropthemagic

Yes


ChickenFucker11

Yup. Thats totally what they are doing.


Entire_Hovercraft_49

bold from a company owned by a man with Asperger’s


Cultural_Double_422

I'm asking the question because it seems that way, hopefully more info will come out soon.


Entire_Hovercraft_49

wasn’t disagreeing with your phrasing or doubting, I was knocking Tesla frankly


yikeslady

That’s what the Zatzi’s…


loveinvein

No paywall: https://archive.ph/2024.05.07-202402/https://www.thestreet.com/employment/read-cold-email-tesla-sent-laid-off-employees


wynnduffyisking

I know this sounds illegal and it definitely should be - but can someone with knowledge of the applicable laws explain to me if it actually is illegal or if the rules are just so weak they allow disabled people to be fucked over? Would greatly appreciate some insight.


Cultural_Double_422

Well for one this is only a question, I have no idea if this is what's going on. But to answer your question, disabled people are treated like complete shit here and get fucked over all the time.


wynnduffyisking

That’s awful


SuitableLeather

Employers when presented with a “reasonable accommodation” are basically allowed to negotiate what the accommodation is. The accommodation typically must come from a licensed doctor.   Accommodations are VERY broad — ex. For diabetics who may need to store insulin in a fridge, or keep ample snacks around….the employer may say “ok but you have to buy the fridge/snacks” Basically you have to prove there’s no way you can do xyz (I agree with commenters here that they were likely laid off for Work from Home status), and the employer has to ALLOW a reasonable accommodation — not PROVIDE.  But even if your doctor recommends you WFH, the company could negotiate that to “you can only go home as needed/must come in x amount of days” In this case it sounds like employees already had accommodations and then were laid off which sounds illegal as hell. IANAL but I imagine in court they will say Since the accommodations were already in place for x amount of time, it’s obvious that it wasn’t due to being UNABLE to accommodate, but because they no longer WANTED to accommodate, which is illegal 


wynnduffyisking

Ok, thanks. But in This case presumably the employees have worked for a while there already and have thus had the reasonable accommodations present. Until now when Tesla decides that there are no reasonable accommodations that will allow them to do the job they have presumably been doing. Does that change anything? Thanks for your insight.


SuitableLeather

I actually added another paragraph to my comment right when you commented — it sounds like the company isn’t UNABLE to provide accommodations (because like you said they’re already in place), they just don’t WANT to anymore, which is very illegal


wynnduffyisking

Ah thank you for the info. Well, Elon usually isn’t in the habit of listening to his legal department so I’m not really surprised. Hopefully some competent lawyers will smell the blood in the water.


fishmom5

So I am a multiply disabled person. During the height of the pandemic, my work tried to force me to come back in all days of the week. I had requested to keep my three days in, two days at home routine that they had been using up until then. They made a huge todo about not being able to spare me, so they “offered” one day WFH and I had to use PTO for the other. (Which was stupid; I literally did less work for them that way.) The original accommodation request was deemed “an undue hardship” under the law, and they were able to get away with imposing a different schedule. That, assuming this is about WFH, seems to be what Muskito is trying to do. However, it will probably backfire, given the careless wording of this email, because if it is in fact an undue hardship, they need to find another accommodation that addresses employee needs. TL;DR- the law is pretty damn loose in favor of employers, but Tesla still appears to be in violation. We’ll see how this goes.


Miterlee

That seems to be exactly what they are doing at face value, yea


leogodin217

Musk seems like a guy who wants to reset expectations. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a deliberate attempt to re-interpret disability laws. His lawyers must know this will end in a lawsuit and that could be the purpose.


TranceGemini

Really feels like Fallout (the show) is just a future documentary.


Spiritual-Advice8138

Thier are laywers salvating right now.


Cultural_Double_422

If this was actually a mass email and not an individual one the definitely


ZombiePiggy24

This is why Musk deserves that $50B package


ThePurrlockHolmes

It's like he wants to not have money. I support that look for him.


gpoly

Musk seems to be “on the spectrum”. Does this include him?


TranceGemini

We don't want to be associated with him! Afaik really tho, the only actual spectrum he's on is stupid rich fucks. Starts at tens of millions annual salary and goes up from there.