Where can I go to work to get harassed for $137 million?
Tesla make self-driving cars — but still uses elevator operators?
Elon will just tap the Federal subsidy he gets. $137M? No problem...the taxpayers will pay the tab.
Elevator operator? In a company working on self driving cars?
An elevator operator? Are we still in the 1950s?
1.Him and his homies use the word amongst themselves fifty times a day I bet.
2.In my experience people like him who are excessively bullied at work did something to bring it on. Brown noser to the boss, snitch/tattle tale, backstabbers etc.
3. I bet it was hispanics who bullied him.
I did expert witness testimony as an economist for almost four decades, but this settlement is ridiculous.
San Francisco trial and jury!
Odds of this ‘award’ staying at this amount are very slim. Yes, this gent will PROBABLY have a good reward, but after arguments and appeals, it is likely to be much lower.
F’ng joke. The company is not responsible/liable for any derogatory social interaction between its employees, nor does it encourage it, nor in any way does it deliberately foster a hostile environment. Tesla can only be an arbitrator, not a policeman for alleged complaints of hostility between its employees.
$137 million is absolutely absurd and exploitative against Tesla when they in no way are responsible for that cry-baby’s hurt feelings and/or his ‘CHOICE’ to continue subjecting himself to what he felt was abusive behavior.
That clown could have made formal complaints to address hostility towards him... or he could have QUIT and worked somewhere else he felt it would solve the problem and put him in an environment he could feel secure.
What? $137 million? Did they tie the her down and do medical experiments on her? Keep her locked in a concrete room and commit serial rape? $137 million for being a little mean and inappropriate?
Why didn’t she quit?
Maybe the Deep State is going after Musk for not sending his 10% to the Big Guy. Like they went after Gates for not sending campaign cash to RATs.
Obviously this insane amount of money will be reduced on appeal to a lesser insane amount of money. However my niece’s husband made a career switch from a higher paying job to work for one of his hero’s, Elon Musk. What a dose of reality that turned into. For whatever reason... some of Musk’s corporations seem to have a culture that is dysfunctional in many ways. This makes them vulnerable to lawsuits such as this one.
Fremont is a construction site and many of us here know that construction sites are not for the thin skinned. However, Tesla has to take a stand that racism is not tolerated as a condition of employment. Musk thinks he’s exempt from this kind of trouble like he thought he was exempt from SEC control. He’ll come around.
How about Company-imposed Vaccine Mandate = Hostile Work Involvement = Big-Time Lawsuit?
From the Tesla statement...
“There was no witness testimony or other evidence that anyone ever heard the n-word used toward Mr. Diaz.”
Does anyone believe the allegations are even true?
For me, this is phony as the day is long.
Even more reason to get out of California.
From the article: “In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that they regularly heard racial slurs (including the n-word) on the Fremont factory floor. While they all agreed that the use of the n-word was not appropriate in the workplace, they also agreed that most of the time they thought the language was used in a ‘friendly’ manner and usually by African-American colleagues.”
They were called the “n word” *in a friendly manner* by their african american colleagues, and for that they sue the company?
The lawyers made out like bandits. A sane judge would have thrown his out of court.
“The company almost never loses workplace arbitrations, though it was hit with a $1 million award in May in a case brought by another ex-contract worker that was similar to Diaz’s.”
Today’s case was a jury award, but the arbitration award gives you a better idea of what the case might have actually been worth, assuming it was proven.
The case is ripe for Remittitur:
The procedural process by which an excessive verdict of the jury is reduced. If money damages awarded by a jury are grossly excessive as a Matter of Law, the judge may order the plaintiff to remit a portion of the award.
The remedy of remittitur is designed to cure an award of damages that is grossly excessive without the necessity of a new trial or an appeal. In some cases, an award by a jury is so completely out of line with the damages proven in the case that it is Unconscionable.
There is an exception to amounts awarded as punitive damages, so that might not change things. Apparently, the award included 130 million in punitive damages, the rest for “pain and suffering” etc.
The number of white guys in San Francisco who would use the “n word” toward a black guy you could count on one hand. I can’t imagine you’ll find any at all.
Did his lawyers present any ACTUAL evidence at all? Not even a fake “noose”?
This was in San Francisco Elon will appeal and that will be the end of it