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>Inside the Nevada team’s office, some employees celebrated canceling service appointments by putting their phones on mute and striking a metal xylophone, trigg
by wredue 3y ago
>Inside the Nevada team’s office, some employees celebrated canceling service appointments by putting their phones on mute and striking a metal xylophone, triggering applause from coworkers who sometimes stood on desks.
It’s weird how this sentence was probably supposed to surprise the reader, but I really just reflected on how the fans conduct themselves regularly and thought “yup, sounds about on par”.
- sethd 3y agoJust like a scene out of The Wolf of Wall Street. This company appears to be fraudulent to the very core.
- mwint 3y agoI’ve thought that ever since they got caught rolling an EV down a hill for a promo video, after taking tons of money from a major automaker. Wait? That wasn’t Tesla? Okay, I guess there’s a level below “fraudulent to the very core”
- crypot 3y agoMaybe this is what you were thinking: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/tesla-engineer-testifies-that-2016-video-promoting-self-driving-was-faked/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/tesla-engineer-testifies-t...
- frumper 3y agoThis is what they are eluding to. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype-was-rolling-downhill-in-promotional-video/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype...
- sdfghswe 3y ago> I really just reflected on how the fans conduct themselves regularly Reminds me of that youtube video (by a fan) almost having an accident on autopilot and his first reaction was "we're gonna have to cut that out".
- deadbeeves 3y agoWell, to be fair to him, he didn't.
- rsynnott 3y agoThis is standard Weird Sales Culture stuff, but it's a bit odd for customer support.
- shmatt 3y agoIt's customer success except Elon is the customer
- Outright0133 3y agoI see HN is still enjoying its two-minutes-hate now that Musk is officially Bad™.
- sschueller 3y agoWhy a xylophone and not a bell? Seems like an odd choice for an instrument other than it's name also starts with an x...
- chihuahua 3y agoElon's new rules are tough but fair. Only xylophones are allowed in the office, and the company cafeteria serves only xylitol and xanthan gum.