That is just TOO good.
If Elon Musk does this in his German operations, his ass is off to prison.
That is not hyperbole. I do not work in a large company but in a midsize one (~ 140 employees), and the talk that HR gave us about adhering to working time law specifically said that if the owner let systematic violations happen a custodial sentence was possible - so please, please do not work longer than 10 hours in any day except in a true emergency (and missing shipping or commissioning deadlines is not an emergency in the context of working time law).
The state government of Brandenburg is trying to be helpful to Tesla, but of course they cannot interfere in work safety investigations, and neither can they nobble prosecutors - if a government official tried one or the other he’d very soon spend more time with his family.
When are boobs new?
Never mind, I don’t want to think about that anymore.
I think it’s a reference to silicone implants? They might have a particular smell at first like when you buy a memory foam pillow and have to let it air out and inflate, I dunno.
The company is sketchy as fuck. Where are they located? “Please contact our Customer service at email to get the return address.”
They also sell a “silent basketball” that’s just made out of cheap-ass foam, like a knock-off Nerf ball.
One of the photos has a soccer player kicking it because I guess they don’t really understand basketball in whatever rogue nation this company is hiding in.
Twitter-X has a lot of ads for drop shippers, “A form of retail business in which the seller accepts customer orders without keeping stock on hand. Instead, in a form of supply chain management, the seller transfers the orders and their shipment details either to the manufacturer, a wholesaler, another retailer, or a fulfillment house, which then ships the goods directly to the customer.” - wiki
Honestly, some of that is an improvement: I like ads for toys. Unfortunately, drop ship ads have been crowded out by political ones, just as the general discussion has gotten more feral.
I just want to recognize the sheer inspiration of choosing “Character Limit” for the title of a book on Elon Musk.
They’re certainly not an example of clarity; however, ISTM the return address they’re talking about isn’t the company address, but rather the address to which you should ship the returned item.
I read somewhere recently that there are dozens of these cheap digital storefronts advertising on Xitter, but that ultimately behind the scenes it’s really just a couple of giant manufacturers (mostly Chinese) operating multiple public portals and posting ads under those d/b/a names to conceal themselves from shoppers. If that’s true, then it’s unsurprising the contact details would be dodgy — they don’t want you knowing who they really are.
(I went looking for that article, or any cite, but the recent news about Biden’s White House cracking down on Temu and Shein has swamped the search results. Ugh.)
One of the funny (“funny”) things I see now is blue-check clout-chasers posting shit like “look at this incredible mountain bridge in China” or “the details in this Hans Holbein painting are incredible, here’s why!” or whatever, and the replies are filled with other blue-check clout-chasers posting their own horseshit content & riding their coattails. It’s one big circle-jerk of mutual clouting/impression-creating, and I suspect Twitter is paying for it under the current monetization format.
The company address isn’t anywhere on their site thoigh, I can’t see anything even hinting at where they are.
Apparently, you have no need to know.
Hell, there may not be any “there” there, if they’re operating out of someone’s condo and getting their postal mail through a rented box
I considered that too.
Call me paranoid, but at the moment this is my nightmare scenario for the next few years;
- Trump is reelected
- Trump makes good on his promise to make Elmo “government efficiency commissioner” and gives him broad power over the executive departments
- To that end Trump appoints Elmo to run multiple Cabinet departments (let’s say Commerce, Energy, Transportation, and the Interior), RFK Jr. gets HHS, and several others are deliberately left unfilled
- At Elmo’s behest Trump gets Congress to abolish the Department of Education and maybe several others
- Once Elmo and his pals have a controlling interest in Cabinet they convince Vance to invoke the 25th amendment and remove Trump from office
- Acting President Vance becomes the figurehead of a de facto Musk administration which proceeds to dismiss Congress and the courts and rule by fiat
Farfetched, maybe, but Elmo has a talent for self-enrichment and taking over anything he’s associated with, and Trump is so susceptible to flattery that he’ll eagerly walk right into a baited trap if Elmo just showers him with enough praise.
Really? How are you getting him to Germany to serve a sentence? I hope you can; I’d love to see it.
The US has an extradition treaty with Germany.
Or, just for Elon, an Xtradition treaty!
Unfortunately (in this case) extradition treaties usually have the provision that the offence has to be a crime in the extraditing country too. Which appears not to be the case in the US for making your employees work dangerously long hours. So prosecution in Germany would merely be an inconvenience.
This is true; no way Germany gets him out of the US for this. But depending on the severity of the offense (and how strenuously German authorities make their argument), Elon may need to avoid other EU countries.
Of course, realistically, none of this will go anywhere near that severe an outcome. Elon will demand that the plant workers embrace “hardcore” hours like he mandated for Twitter drones, the German worker councils will say “LOL no,” and that’ll be the end of it. Elon can bitch and moan and gnash his teeth all he wants, but he can either toe the labor-management line or close his German plants and move outside the EU.
Considering his caving in Brazil, @Cervaise’s analysis of the likely outcomes seems both accurate and safe!
Seriously though, I expect the latter of the two is more likely. If/when (huge emphasis on if) the EU actually starts putting teeth into their demands on Xitter’s moderation, I fully expect that Eloon is going to throw a massive temper tantrum and shut down Xitter for the EU, and pull out anything else he can.
And I expect it’s going to be sooner than later, after all the reporting on Fidelity’s and similar rational evaluations of Xitter’s value in the post-Musk age.