Diesel pickups are for chumps

[BushMasterBoy]

Depends if he tests positive for mj use. I really doubt he will test positive. Not good for a PR standpoint. I think he wants the stock price to go down.

[MrPrena]

Old news but, Chief accounting officer walks away too.

Btw.
"McLaren, we make Elon's dream car."
https://youtu.be/x3tlVE_QXm4

[Gman]

Just heard on the news tonight that the head of HR has decided she's not coming back to the company.

[MrPrena]

Elon Musk on 9/10 Monday SQUAWK BOX interview with CNBC.






ETA: I am not a fanturd nor shorturd. I am just ROFLing on what Elon Must did on the Joe Rogan's interview which I just watched highlights of it. It was funny at a [possible] cost of share holder.

[ChadAmberg]

Took a social media class last week and the average attention span of people is 7 seconds now.
I think that is why the DIY and "Reality" shows seem so jerky to me.
The whole scene flashes and changes every 3-4 seconds.
I get headaches with strobes and the constant changing scenes gives me eye strain.
Gettin' too old for this stuff

I wish my attention span lasted... SQUIRREL!!!!!

[Gman]

Don’t let the smoke distract from the Tesla fire
Abrupt departure of accounting officer is the real issue, not Elon Musk’s amateurish puff of weed

While the media is in a tizzy about Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk taking a hit of marijuana during a two-hour plus podcast with Joe Rogan on Thursday night, that is not the problem with Tesla stock on Friday, and shouldn’t be investors’ focus.

The real issue is Friday’s disclosure that Dave Morton, Tesla’s TSLA, -6.30% new chief accounting officer, had resigned after only one month on the job, citing the level of public attention and pace of work at the company. CNBC reported that Morton resigned after he concluded that Musk was not interested in the accounting details surrounding his impulsive “go private” transaction that he brashly announced on Twitter, without having any “funding secured.”

Morton is the third accounting executive to leave the company in the past few months, amid a slew of other executive departures. Morton’s resignation follows the resignation in March of Eric Branderiz, who joined Tesla from SunPower Corp. SPWR, -2.45% in 2016 as chief accounting officer, and Susan Repo, who was Tesla’s corporate treasurer and vice president of finance.

That turnover is just in the accounting department — Bloomberg News also reported Friday that Tesla’s head of human resources is not returning from a leave of absence, part of a wave of exits at the company. Tesla has seen so many executive departures in the past year and a half that in April, short seller Jim Chanos told CNBC about his infamous list he has been compiling on the accelerating rate of executive departures.

“Probably the number one sign of impending problems is mass executive departures, I don’t mean one or two people, I mean 30 or 40,” Chanos said. “This is becoming a torrent at Tesla, and we keep this sort of list that is well known, the Tesla executive departure list, it is now two pages single spaced for the last 18 months.”

If Musk is not able to keep and attract good executives at Tesla, then he will be under even further pressure to do more on his own, and the whole take-private fiasco shows what happens when Musk acts without adult supervision. There has been chatter about the need for Tesla to hire a chief operating officer to help Musk run the company, but what competent executive is going to walk into the fire at Tesla and actually manage to tame Musk?

Tesla keeps losing senior leadership — here are some of the key departures this year

Morton and Toledano are just the latest top Tesla employees to depart amid a tumultuous year for the automaker. Tesla has battled through production delays, swinging stock prices and the wild antics of its CEO.

In total 41 executives have left Tesla in 2018, according to a tracker maintained by Tesla short-seller Jim Chanos, including 58 in the last 12 months. The company laid off at least 9 percent of its workforce in June — the same month 13 executives left the company, according to Chanos' list.

On Friday, the company announced it was promoting several new executives, some of whom fill the shoes of people who left this year.

[MrPrena]

Ouch.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/tesl...ed-by-sec.html

[Gman]

Stock is down about 13% in after-hours trading.

[MrPrena]

Stock is down about 13% in after-hours trading.

As of:
Sep 28, 10:01 AM EDT · Disclaimer
273.42 USD −34.10 (-11.09%)



I am not a fantard nor shortard of TSLA, but I kinda see Short Sellers really fraustrated Elon Musk. I've seen dumber.
Taser (Now Axon) CEO during 2003 doing stupid[er] sh1t before to short sellers. CEO of Taser RickSmith demanded Yahoo message board (now market place) to release the IP of one of the poster (ubswarbird) so that they can file a stupid lawsuit.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106035250970197500
http://investor.axon.com/static-file...5-0d3f2c43572b
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/d...9538e10qsb.htm

[Justin]

I just can't do these podcast things. If they had a transcript I could read all the bullshit in about 5 minutes, tops. Sitting through 2 1/2 hours while people chuckle and continuously repeat themselves to fill awkward gaps is torture. It's like having to sit in an elementary classroom as an adult and listen to eight hours of lecturing on the alphabet before being permitted to "test out" of it. I just value the time in my life and like to use it efficiently.

I'm not surprised that the guy who admins a forum prefers to read text vs. listen to speech.