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A leaked email outlined other ways staff could help streamline operations.

These include walking out of meetings, sidestepping the chain of command and ignoring company rules on occasion.

Thought experiment: Imagine you were reading this about Uber, not Tesla. Why would you feel differently? How about back when Kalanick was CEO?

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I'd imagine at a large enough company there are bound to be obviously dumb rules that some low-level manager invented to power-trip ("All employees must walk on the right-hand side to walk to the left-most bathroom past 3pm").

My only concern is that it will be less "ignore obviously dumb rules" and more "ignore safety precautions".

Violate company rules is a dangerous thing to say (or admit publicly; seems like a tee-up to a lawsuit). But the other two... those make sense.

If I were reading this about Uber, my first response would be surprise that they have company rules.

The people who need to hear what you’re saying are desperate not to. Until a critical mass realize that Musk is trying to get rich, not send them to Mars, you will be shouted down. It’s like sports fans; when their team wins despite career-ending fouls they’re not saying, “oh that’s it for my team,” they’re saying, “We did it, and with only nine men!!”

When the reality distortion bubble bursts on this one, only then will cutting corners, treating employees badly, deceptive and dangerous marketing around autopilot, and endless unfounded hype be seen as unacceptable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/californi...

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