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- enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
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- enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
Two days after taking a job for Tesla, owner of The Giving Pies got a simple text message canceling the order
A catering contract to celebrate Black Heritage Month turned into a tough lesson for a Black-owned bakery in the South Bay earlier this month.
What started as a $16,000 deal ended up costing the small business owner thousands of dollars instead.
On Valentine’s Day, the owner of The Giving Pies in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood received a pretty sweet call from a representative with Tesla: a catering job for thousands of mini-pies for a Black History Month event.
Owner Voahangy Rasetarinera, who started the business out of her home in 2017, says both sides agreed on a quote and exchanged an invoice for 4,000 pies for delivery this week. Because of the tight turnaround, Rasetarinera asked staff to work extra hours, she bought ingredients and packaging supplies and declined at least three other catering jobs.
It is fascinating to watch the rise and fall of Tesla’s reputation. They went from “the cool brand” everyone wanted to something that automatically gets you labelled as a sucker and a douche, almost overnight.
That’s usually what happens when a douchebag worms his way into a company, takes it over and squanders it.
See: Reddit
The douche was there the entire time. Unfortunately, the counteracting force (Aaron Schwartz) left and was excised from Reddit history basically.
Sadly, Musk built the cool brand reputation before destroying it, so this doesn’t really apply. Nobody ever really heard of Tesla - the car brand - before Musk.
This was my first exposure to Tesla
https://grandtournation.com/car-show-news/top-gear/top-gears-fight-against-tesla-jeremy-clarkson-clarifies-exactly-what-happened/
I’m tempted by Lucid products right now.
Since April 2019, Lucid has been majority-owned by Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia.
Dang. Can’t win.
Zero Motorcycles is still privately owned 🤷 lol
To be fair, most of the Tesla buyers in Sweden are absolute douches on the streets. Not all though.
Thats what happens when you get a bunch of weirdo cultists who willfully ignore just how much of an astonishingly massive cunt Musk is, was, and always has been, until he pushes even them to the point that they have to admit what they always, deep down, knew.
Tesla could get away with musks behavior if the product was good. It’s not, it’s overpriced and regularly scores amongst the lowest in reliability and build quality.