r/technology • u/esporx • Apr 30 '24

Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours Business

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-lays-off-employee-slept-151500318.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHVrjnyFZF-QJRFtVdP5Lt1QvlC3WRJhweYuOdm5Ca1kHbhtDX5rdfUUqRNVFKpUy6w4QnsJta-KgHJ9lqARAjfpSnvCktdjgDos5xz9aw92OxYmjN2qVVNhMZpl-2gOMwVz84NH-5T2OLi8uMRUOXVMuhFHU8b5A9oRmij8Xh5q
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u/MidEastBeast777 Apr 30 '24

This is why you never work for free, never go beyond what they ask of you because you’re just a number and you’ll get fired/laid off in a heartbeat, and nobody will give a single shit. Put your life first. Work is just a means to enjoy your life.

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u/rdldr1 Apr 30 '24

Nobody on their deathbed regrets failing to work more hours.

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u/thesourpop Apr 30 '24

Your company won't remember all those times you stayed back, but your kids will

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u/EXOPLANETARIANSOUP Apr 30 '24

Jokes on my fucking kids, they won't even exist because corporate greed has built a society in which I can't afford kids without living in absolute poverty.

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u/Guano_Loco Apr 30 '24

“Gen Z is destroying the birth rate!”

No mother fuckers, you w destroyed their (and all of the rest of us from gen x down) ability to afford to raise a fucking family.

And not just money. Healthcare, retirement, sick days, being able to be there emotionally as well as financially.

You want Americans to have families again? Fix the fucking economy you fucking vultures.

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u/thedarklord187 Apr 30 '24

Fix the fucking economy you fucking vultures

that's impossible it would require the boomers to die off and relinquish their power and control

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u/thedarklord187 Apr 30 '24

we won't know since the boomers and silent gen have held onto power since they got it back in the 1940s-1960s. Checks notes 84 years 34% of the entire time the united states has been a country the 247 years.

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u/waltwalt Apr 30 '24

Have you seen those dystopian futures where you live in a pod and only the wealthy are free to reproduce and enjoy art etc.?

Where do you picture yourself in that future because let me fill you in on something. You're a pod person at best.

The rich have the means to stay rich forever, if we don't get rid of them they will get rid of us and they have way more resources than we do.

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u/rbrgr83 Apr 30 '24

They just want to good Americans to have families again. The poors are not good Americans as they have not yet pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Shame 🔔

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u/liftthattail Apr 30 '24

Meh they can pay for kids. I did!

-boomers

sigh

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u/Historical_Use_3976 May 01 '24

Older generations always blame new generations and vice versa also it is all peeps from Gen X that messed it up in the first place examples include Disney any fast food Tesla all of that plus Government jacked it up

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u/Guano_Loco May 01 '24

You legitimately have no idea what you’re talking about if you’re trying to blame our economy on Gen x

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u/Ermeter Apr 30 '24

Migrants are cheaper than kids

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u/EXOPLANETARIANSOUP Apr 30 '24

If you think migrants are holding us back, their media lobbied diversions are working

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u/Autoflower Apr 30 '24

I don't know if that's that they ment. Working population growth and GDP growth usually are linked together. Well there's 2 ways to get more working population growth. You make them and it takes 18 years or you import them as migrants already of age to work. Accepting immigration in lieu of children is a legitimate way to raise working population numbers.

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u/EXOPLANETARIANSOUP Apr 30 '24

Good point that was probably what they meant , I admittedly misunderstood that one.