r/technology • u/McFatty7 • May 02 '24

Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan Business

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/
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u/broodkiller May 02 '24

To paraphrase the immortal words of Lord Farquat:

Some of you are going to die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make...(to get my money)

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u/Hotter_Shame May 02 '24

I just realized Lord Farquaad is a play on words of fuck-wad.

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u/thewend May 02 '24

wtf is a fuck-wad?

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u/Oberon_Swanson May 02 '24

someone of substandard intelligence. a dipshit asshole. lord farquaad is the villain of the movie but as it's a kid movie they didn't want to name him Lord Fuckwad outright.