“No, of course it’s a joke about them sleeping on the floor. We will provide Tesla-branded housing onsite, and with the added convenience of the Tesla store and the workers being paid in Teslabux to pay me back for the room and board, they’ll always be ready to do my bidding.”

They should unionize

Every company want slaves, Elon is just saying out loud the quiet part.

Unionize now.

Shut up, Elon. Nobody cares.

It's pretty normal for an auto factory to run 24 hours a day with three 8 hour shifts. 100% of them manage to do it without having workers having to sleep in the plant.

Sounds like just something he thinks is just fun to threaten people with. Gives those he's always trying to impress the appearance that his financial success is from working long hours, rather than random luck.

Maybe it’s time for a grown up CEO.

It’s weird cause he’s stated he did that in early Tesla days and hated it, wouldn’t do it again, but expects others to?

I don't know, is this supposed to be a joke? A wild sense of humor? If you would have to hypothetically have to sleep on the production line, it tells me the management doesn't know management.

I would like to see a CEO pull this "joke" in the EU. How long until he would be crucified.

"That will be a challenging production ramp," Musk said. "We'll be sleeping on the line, practically. Not practically, we will be."

Sure, the workers on the production line, Musk on the line of coke in his private jet.

But yeah, Sweden does not need its unions, it limits innovation or something!

I just don’t understand why Tesla hasn’t booted this guy

How about you actually learn how to build cars you moron.

Sounds like a job for me. I would sleep on the production line 8h a day if they pay me for that.

They are going to get a big hourly rate and payed every around the clock even when assleep right???

Oh my bad thats just the standard privilege for ceo’s so of course they wont. Probably have to pay for their own food and hygiene products also.

Why does anyone support this bullshit company with it's shitty quality vehicles and lies about what they can do?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Elon Musk warned Tesla workers to prepare for a challenging production ramp-up as he previewed plans to build a mass-market vehicle.

It wouldn't be the first time Tesla workers have reportedly had to sleep on manufacturing lines to meet the company's production deadlines.

Musk has said he slept beneath his desk while spending "three years straight" basically living in Tesla's manufacturing facilities.

Musk said that Tesla's next-generation vehicle, which Reuters reported is a mass-market, affordable EV codenamed "Redwood," is set to enter production in the second half of 2025 at the company's Texas Gigafactory — though he admitted that he is often optimistic with timing, and could not yet predict how many of the vehicles Tesla would initially produce.

The billionaire has hinted for years that Tesla plans to release a cheaper EV expected to cost below $30,000.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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