Featured Musk on sabotage

In contrast to Jalopnik, the Guardian version is easier to read:
Tesla whistleblower claims company is 'doing everything it can to silence me' | Technology | The Guardian

Here is the Jalopnik version:
Here's The Wild Email Exchange Between Tesla's Alleged 'Saboteur' And Elon Musk

Bob Wilson

 

Martin Tripp makes two claims that are not in the Tesla suit that bear comment:

"faulty batteries that had been punctured by a haywire robot into 732 Model 3" Had Tripp reported the VIN numbers to NHTSA or other safety organizations, his credibility would have some standing. So far, no tear-down has showed the damaged cells in a car, it is a rumor.

"storing scrap in an unsafe manner" It is easy to contact the local fire marshal so they can inspect and document the problem. So far, no evidence of that being attempted.​

Like Snowden, Manning, Hanson, e.t.c., he broke faith with his employer and admitted it in public. So I have very little sympathy. Worse, he failed to share his concerns with the proper authorities which eviscerates these claims.

I resigned several times:

1. Unpaid, extra work - a new supervisor assigned us extra duties without compensation. I tried to negotiate with co-workers and management and when they turned me down, I found a new job three months later and left.
2. Black world divorce - my new wife was unable to tolerate me not talking about work. Counter-offer to change operating systems in the white world appealed to ego so I stayed.
3. Supervisor personality conflict - when my stomach began to hurt, I found another job. Counter-offer moved me to operations from troubled development group.
4. End of project, time to move on - with parts of the project going to another contractor, I found another employer. Allowed to start selling a new product so I stayed.
5. End of project, time to move on - with project moving to on-site integration and test, my wife wants to stay in Huntsville. Changed employment to stay in Huntsville.
6. Moved from technical to proposal work - found employment in Huntsville and returned to technical supervision.
7. Supervisor personality conflict - found network engineering job and never looked back.

It would have been anathema to compromise my prior work and technical skills. In contrast, Martin Tripp appears to be taking his frustration personal and in complete disregard for any skills he might have once held. He could have sought a different position or another employer. Instead, he broke faith which means he has become toxic.

Bob Wilson

 

Source: Are the short sellers behind the anti-Tesla media crusade...or is it s | EVANNEX Aftermarket Tesla Accessories

It wasn’t hard to spin an arcane financial narrative that made this sound like a Ponzi scheme, or “a subprime lender.” When Chanos announced his short position in August 2015, his thesis was that SolarCity’s customers could stop paying their bills at any moment, as Jesse explains. “This [ignored] the fact that SolarCity customers had an average FICO score of 750, compared to below 620 to be considered subprime. Not to mention [that] defaulting on payments to SolarCity would make no financial sense, because reverting back to your utility would cost more.”
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Following the Fairfax playbook, Gordon Johnson, a solar analyst at Axiom Capital, initiated coverage of SolarCity with a Sell rating, and went on to publish a steady stream of pessimistic reports. When SolarCity became part of Tesla, Johnson shifted his bearish gaze thither. According to Jesse, Johnson’s TSLA price target of $99 is the lowest on the Street, and he is “constantly” on CNBC, repeating the popular (and demonstrably false) thesis that Tesla loses money on every car it sells.

According to Jesse, the same “bad actors” who tried to take down Fairfax and SolarCity are now targeting Tesla. He doesn’t object to short selling in principle, but believes that there is something more sinister at work here: ordinarily speculators take short positions because they legitimately believe a company is in trouble. However, Jesse believes that most of the 40 million shares, or over $12 billion dollars, currently betting against Tesla are controlled by raiders who are out to bring the company down by stirring up FUD and triggering a self-reinforcing downward spiral.
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Bob Wilson

 

First paragraph:

in a pilot program -- starting later this year.​

'Nuff said'

Bob Wilson