Three former SpaceX supervisors told Reuters that Musk would have machinery painted in industrial safety yellow repainted to black or blue because of he didn’t like how it looked. The ex-supervisors also said that some workers were told not to wear yellow safety vests when Musk was on site.
It says they couldn’t wear yellow safety vests, but I’m guessing, at least at first, that they didn’t have two colors of safety vest available for all employees.
And repainting machines unsafe colors because you don’t like yellow?
Just criminal assholeishness. If he wasn’t so rich, he would be charged with reckless endangerment.
The worst part is that this isn’t new behavior. Musk pulled this same shit at the Tesla factories; forbidding safety yellow from being used, having the warning alarms disabled on forklifts because it annoyed him, etc.
I am glad the veil has been lifted for more people though so they can see Musk for who he always has been.
Musk: I removed all beeps and horns and warnings from my vehicles and spacecraft because it annoys me.
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We can not let this horribly inept person be the one to lead the way to Mars colonization.
We’re all doomed if that’s the only way to survive the destruction of the Earth.
The man can’t even deliver cars that he promised for years. Does anyone believe he wil actually go to mars?
Oh he will never go to Mars even if SpaceX gets people to Mars. For all of his lofty claims, there is no way he would give up his Earth luxuries. He wouldn’t even be able to get real-time responses to his “hilarious” tweets.
Plus, he would never put himself at such a personal risk. He’s a coward. Look how he picked a fight with Zuckerberg and then backed out when Zuckerberg called his bluff.
If he was planning to go to Mars, he would have gone up in a SpaceX rocket by now.
He himself probably wouldn’t go, I meant it more in a metaphorical sense that he would achieve human presence in mars. But he’s basically a con man so I don’t think he will. And if he sends anyone there it will be a disaster.
One of his broodmares has been giving up the goods on the insider info into what his thought processes have been lately— focusing much more energy on— getting off the planet to his own fiefdom on Mars.
She’s pissed, and rightfully so, that he kidnapped their child from her. Another scumbag Phony Stark move to throw on the pile.
Is he pretending to be like some super charismatic genius autistic master mind by pretending to be disturbed by bright colours and loud noises. Sounds like him
I don’t even know if I believe the autism claim. I don’t think he’s ever been formally diagnosed. I think he is self-diagnosed with “Asperger’s syndrome,” which is no longer a diagnosis.
In fairness to those with Autism, “self diagnosis” is much more common in that community and accepted because the official test for it can be absurdly long and expensive.
That being said, neither one of those things should be a problem for big brain Elon.
Yes, that is definitely true for many autistic people, but I think in Elon’s case he hides his weird and unacceptable behavior behind a self-diagnosis of autism. He might be autistic, but it’s not the excuse he thinks it is.
Being autistic doesn’t mean being an ass hole. Maybe musk is ass-tistic.
Agree 100%.
The Aspergers vs ASD statement is as pointless as someone saying they’re manic-depressive instead of bipolar. Sure, that’s a problem if your doctor gets it wrong, but not if someone who has the condition doesn’t bother to keep up.
There are plenty of real issues to criticise Musk for, but that particular item is a non-issue.
The key word was pretending.
Years ago I was told that Tesla had tried to resist rules that would require high voltage cables to be orange, and that they only changed them to orange after a firefighter died cutting through one of those cables.
I don’t have any documentation of this, but I can at least say that it would be consistent.
What is a firefighter doing cutting through random cables? It could just as easily be a non-electrical one electrified by broken wiring elsewhere.
Probably using the jaws of life on one of Elons deathtraps trying to save the driver of the wrecked car
Use your head. Put two and two together. Firefighter, Tesla, high voltage. What do firefighters do to cars? Respond to crashes and cut people out of crashed cars.
If you cannot think of why a firefighter might have to cut through a wire, you might be too stupid for this world.
And the toxic shit from Reddit has now leaked to Lemmy
If you cannot understand how they are only stupid IF they needed the explanation… you might be too stupid for Lemmy.
I think we shouldn’t be inciting people to kill themselves, even when we disagree about things. “Too stupid for this world” is pretty clearly equivalent to “you should kill yourself.” It doesn’t matter if you’ve dressed it up by putting an “if” in front, it’s still toxic behavior.
Saying someone is too stupid for this world is wholly and completely different than a KYS message. “Yea, you’re so stupid you’ll probably get hit by a car some day” is wholly different than, “go play in traffic.”
Now please… practice better reading comprehension next time.
I guess we just have different standards for treating people with respect.
Probably trying to get a dying person out of a car wreck.
The stupid thing is that they guy has enough money to fix those without being unsafe.
The back up beeping is too annoying? Give a nerd a pile of money to swap it out for some Selena Gomez
The beeping is required to be annoying. It’s supposed to alert everyone in the area that the forklift is being driven backwards. Changing it to Selena Gomez would fade into background noise.
If you’re constantly driving your forklift backwards, you have either the wrong forklift or a bad warehouse layout.
Safety regulations are written in blood.
Even the normal beeping is either back ground noise or painfully loud.
You’re right, there’s no sound that exists that Is both alerting and tolerable to Elon Musk