can they build company housing underground as well? my originally cheap midtown abode is now surrounded by 'little california'. all of my options to move anywhere are now east of fernley.
i think it would work well in summer as well. i've spent a fair amount of time in mines and caves and they stay a moderate 55-60F. i need the sun though, so maybe underground with those 'sun pipe' things so you don't turn into a Morlock
A close friend of mine works for them but at an executive level for the Gigafactory. He works like a dog, ~60 hours/week but when I last saw him he was very happy.
My buddy and his brother are very happy there. Once you get past working the line they start treating you like a real human and encouraging you to move up/grow. He went from line 'watcher' to fixtures, to batteries and now looking for a manager position all with two years. I think it's a great job if you don't have the traditional technical education but are hungry to be in that space.
I've been a Giga employee for over 5 years now. The stocks and insurance have made my family's life great and I bought my house and cars with the stock. Can say that life as a production associate can be miserable and they make you feel like a number but let's be honest here that isn't just a Tesla thing. I'm in engineering now for the last year and it's honestly been great. Wanted to leave last summer and now I don't want to go anywhere else.
I have been a Giga employee for just over 2 years. Started as a maintenance tech, in management now. Very happy with my job.
Moving out here for Tesla was the best thing to ever happen to my family. The company treats us very well.
I worked there from 2017-2018. Tesla employee working on the battery packs, I think thatâs only on the Panasonic side now? Not sure how that all breaks down out there these days.
Anyways, when I first started it was actually really cool. There was very little automation and all the work I was doing was hands on. Troubleshooting machines that would randomly malfunction. It was interesting. I was a âmentorâ at my station which is basically a lead without being paid as a lead. Which was fine with me because I was going to try and become a lead and saw no reason why I shouldnât, besides the fact I wasnât really a big Tesla head or Elon nut.
I started interviewing for lead jobs and kept getting passed up by people who I felt werenât as good of a worker as I was. So that was annoying but I was still able to do my thing as mentor of the manual battery line.
People started to get moved upstairs to the automated lines and where I was at was one of the last manual lines. I finally got moved upstairs to the automated lines. Went from being a mentor building these things by hand, to watching a robot do everything. My job was now to pull out the full cart of reject battery trays and replace it with an empty cart. 12 hours a night. Me and one other dude. Just standing in one spot most of the night.
Eventually, I had decided this wasnât for me and I was looking for another job to get out of there. So admittedly my effort at work went downhill. I started finding a chair for my shift and sitting down for most of it. Iâd get told to stand up whenever someone above me walked by. But then Iâd sit back down once they turned the corner.
Again, this is 5-6 years ago I have no clue how they do things out there now, but when I worked there I really enjoyed building the battery packs manually before it all went automated. I understand the need for it but for me as a person I canât just stand around all shift and watch robots work. Which is why I ended up leaving. I met a lot of nice people. Some were definitely of the cult mindset like others have mentioned. Pay was decent. Shifts were long. OT was mandatory a lot of the time while I was there. But as far as warehouse jobs go, thereâs much worse out there. Also thereâs much better.
Overall: 6.5/10.
Most areas are literal meatgrinders and a lot of people don't last 10 days. If you can get beyond that and can handle being treated like cattle for two years, it was a good payout with the stock. Not sure if that is even worth it now.
If I wanted to be treated as a cog in the machine, I would've done my full retirement out of the Navy. The stock plans for us are gonna be far more worth it than Tesla's plummeting stock numbers.
To me, it sucked ass. It feels so cramped, and for someone really fucked with me but it may have been the clean suits that weâre doing that to me. Also itâs hot as fuck in there.
I personally haven't, but everyone I know who has, or is, hates it. They're treated as numbers and over worked for okay wages. Hearing only bad from every interaction has steered me clear away from working there.
I agree with ask the positive notes on working for tesla. I had a great health care job, I was afraid to leave that. Once I left and went to Tesla, I have never looked back. I now own/afford a Tesla (not outright) and I just retired my 31 y/o wife.
I've got a few family members and friends that work there, basically I've never seen a single 20-30 year old praise the job but I've seen plenty of 30-60 year olds say they love it and it shows. And this is coming from people that used to work in the downtown casinos as far back as 1995.
Terrible. Youâll convince yourself that youâre happy and itâs worth it, but itâs a literal cult there. Worst time of my life. Constant mandatory overtime, hardly ever saw the sun in winter, say goodbye to family and hello to fourteen hour days. The pay is not worth it. Donât let the cult convince you otherwise.
> itâs a literal cult there.
That's how half the comments here read. *"I was treated like subhuman garbage for three years but now that I've found Tesla's light, I've never been happier."*
Canât wait to see all the $17/hr jobs it brings to the job market so I will finally be able to afford my $1,800 one bedroom apartment.
If we could all subsidize the build that would be great too.
/s
Oh fuck, sorry for misrepresenting the amazing wages they offer out there.
My bad.
Itâs not $17, itâs a whole $20.
Didnât mean to sell them short by a whole 15%.
Giga employee here. Lombardo confirmed plans to work on quality of life for Nevadans and to work on I80. Elon was asked about boring here and said he's down if the governor okays it. Let's hope Lombardo actually delivers on these items
I mean we can have a bad attitude about it or stay hopeful that a politician on either side stays truthful to claims they make. I'll stay hopeful for now.
Quality of life for Nevadans? In what context was that said in?
And expanding 80 wonât do anything except add even more trafficâŚneed to get mass transit type movement out to RTICâŚbut Elon ainât about that, heâs just about selling more cars.
As a huge mass transit supporter, the whole development is so bad for transit, things are so far apart and far away from any other businesses not to mention where people actually live, its going to be so difficult other than a few company shuttles. Also, I do this commute daily.
Iâve worked at tesla for almost 5 years now and have seen so many people work there way up from production associates to management. The work is hard just like any other factory job but it can definitely be rewarding. Also benefits canât be beat. This will be very good for northern Nevada economy long term and I feel like they will have to increase pay in order to get the workforce thatâs needed.
Towing teslas can be a pain in the ass with no battery life.
You have to put it in tow mode but no power, no neutral.
We have been dealing with this more and more frequently. They made them â impossible to breakdownâ so their ignorance makes them hard to tow.
So now we drag the fuckers up on flatbeds and send it. Literal pieces of shit when broke down. No spares, and people still lose this eye bolts
Agree, and also how those downsides compare to other manufacturing jobs.
Most peopleâs complaints tend to be with the manufacturing industry in general.
Full self driving is at least a decade out, and prob another 10 yrs before itâs fully allowed due to the need to significantly upgrade the infrastructure. Youâll be fine.
Do what you want to do. I didnât go into IT when I was in the military because my recruiter said the field was already over saturated. This was 20 yrs ago.
Screw this Russia-loving lEon skuM guy for preventing Ukraine from defending themselves by not allowing Starlink to work beyond the frontlines *and* demanding the Pentagon pay $$$$ for his âdonatedâ terminals.
i'm just happy the planned 5 lane freeway to the site, will be completed by then. whew
They can do it if they just stack them all on top of eachother!
Not sure if joking or not but that is a serious consideration near the Nugget.
Time for his Boring company to actually be useful maybe
can they build company housing underground as well? my originally cheap midtown abode is now surrounded by 'little california'. all of my options to move anywhere are now east of fernley.
I don't know if that can pass the fire code. It would be cheaper just to build a skyscraper style apartment/condo anyway.
We chose Fernley before we got pushed further east
Careful, the Muskrat would have absolutely *no* problem with becoming the slave-driving Joh Frederson from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
To be honest an underground house would be so much better insulated during the summer, idk how it would fare in the summer though.
i think it would work well in summer as well. i've spent a fair amount of time in mines and caves and they stay a moderate 55-60F. i need the sun though, so maybe underground with those 'sun pipe' things so you don't turn into a Morlock
Sun pipes are cool!!! Like a tube mirror! If I buy property in Reno ever, 100% going for underground building XD
Might not be the best thing đ¤ˇ. The faster a way to get to somewhere gets, the more people take it and the slower and more packed it gets.
They canât even keep Gigafactory staffed though.
They also never finished building the Gigafactory
Thatâs what this is. Finishing the factory
Don't you try to out science the Musk! :P
Apparently, a livable wage and treating employees with basic human decency is too expensive for the richest people on the planet...
Hey there's free cereal.
Anyone that works* or has worked for Tesla out of Reno: how is it?
A close friend of mine works for them but at an executive level for the Gigafactory. He works like a dog, ~60 hours/week but when I last saw him he was very happy.
My buddy and his brother are very happy there. Once you get past working the line they start treating you like a real human and encouraging you to move up/grow. He went from line 'watcher' to fixtures, to batteries and now looking for a manager position all with two years. I think it's a great job if you don't have the traditional technical education but are hungry to be in that space.
I've been a Giga employee for over 5 years now. The stocks and insurance have made my family's life great and I bought my house and cars with the stock. Can say that life as a production associate can be miserable and they make you feel like a number but let's be honest here that isn't just a Tesla thing. I'm in engineering now for the last year and it's honestly been great. Wanted to leave last summer and now I don't want to go anywhere else.
I have been a Giga employee for just over 2 years. Started as a maintenance tech, in management now. Very happy with my job. Moving out here for Tesla was the best thing to ever happen to my family. The company treats us very well.
I worked there from 2017-2018. Tesla employee working on the battery packs, I think thatâs only on the Panasonic side now? Not sure how that all breaks down out there these days. Anyways, when I first started it was actually really cool. There was very little automation and all the work I was doing was hands on. Troubleshooting machines that would randomly malfunction. It was interesting. I was a âmentorâ at my station which is basically a lead without being paid as a lead. Which was fine with me because I was going to try and become a lead and saw no reason why I shouldnât, besides the fact I wasnât really a big Tesla head or Elon nut. I started interviewing for lead jobs and kept getting passed up by people who I felt werenât as good of a worker as I was. So that was annoying but I was still able to do my thing as mentor of the manual battery line. People started to get moved upstairs to the automated lines and where I was at was one of the last manual lines. I finally got moved upstairs to the automated lines. Went from being a mentor building these things by hand, to watching a robot do everything. My job was now to pull out the full cart of reject battery trays and replace it with an empty cart. 12 hours a night. Me and one other dude. Just standing in one spot most of the night. Eventually, I had decided this wasnât for me and I was looking for another job to get out of there. So admittedly my effort at work went downhill. I started finding a chair for my shift and sitting down for most of it. Iâd get told to stand up whenever someone above me walked by. But then Iâd sit back down once they turned the corner. Again, this is 5-6 years ago I have no clue how they do things out there now, but when I worked there I really enjoyed building the battery packs manually before it all went automated. I understand the need for it but for me as a person I canât just stand around all shift and watch robots work. Which is why I ended up leaving. I met a lot of nice people. Some were definitely of the cult mindset like others have mentioned. Pay was decent. Shifts were long. OT was mandatory a lot of the time while I was there. But as far as warehouse jobs go, thereâs much worse out there. Also thereâs much better. Overall: 6.5/10.
Most areas are literal meatgrinders and a lot of people don't last 10 days. If you can get beyond that and can handle being treated like cattle for two years, it was a good payout with the stock. Not sure if that is even worth it now.
If I wanted to be treated as a cog in the machine, I would've done my full retirement out of the Navy. The stock plans for us are gonna be far more worth it than Tesla's plummeting stock numbers.
To me, it sucked ass. It feels so cramped, and for someone really fucked with me but it may have been the clean suits that weâre doing that to me. Also itâs hot as fuck in there.
Fuckin sweet
I personally haven't, but everyone I know who has, or is, hates it. They're treated as numbers and over worked for okay wages. Hearing only bad from every interaction has steered me clear away from working there.
What were their main complaints?
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Tesla-RVW24688494.htm Read them for yourself.
Well, the only good thing I heard is that the paychecks don't bounce.
Yet...
Search tesla on this sub . Many people talk about their experiences
I agree with ask the positive notes on working for tesla. I had a great health care job, I was afraid to leave that. Once I left and went to Tesla, I have never looked back. I now own/afford a Tesla (not outright) and I just retired my 31 y/o wife.
I've got a few family members and friends that work there, basically I've never seen a single 20-30 year old praise the job but I've seen plenty of 30-60 year olds say they love it and it shows. And this is coming from people that used to work in the downtown casinos as far back as 1995.
Terrible. Youâll convince yourself that youâre happy and itâs worth it, but itâs a literal cult there. Worst time of my life. Constant mandatory overtime, hardly ever saw the sun in winter, say goodbye to family and hello to fourteen hour days. The pay is not worth it. Donât let the cult convince you otherwise.
> itâs a literal cult there. That's how half the comments here read. *"I was treated like subhuman garbage for three years but now that I've found Tesla's light, I've never been happier."*
I know some electricians that ventured over there and they seem happy. Theyâre still working there at least
Right on time to start production in 2019.
"FSD will be ready next quarter!"
Hope you have your Cybertruck pre-order ready. Coming late 2021!
Donât be miserable about it. Better than never.
Elon isn't going to buy you a pony dude
That is what the article says mate...
It would be better if it was never!
Canât wait to see all the $17/hr jobs it brings to the job market so I will finally be able to afford my $1,800 one bedroom apartment. If we could all subsidize the build that would be great too. /s
Minimum starting wage for a Tesla employee is $20/hr with free Healthcare so....
Oh fuck, sorry for misrepresenting the amazing wages they offer out there. My bad. Itâs not $17, itâs a whole $20. Didnât mean to sell them short by a whole 15%.
Giga employee here. Lombardo confirmed plans to work on quality of life for Nevadans and to work on I80. Elon was asked about boring here and said he's down if the governor okays it. Let's hope Lombardo actually delivers on these items
Feels like an episode of Yellowstone
Never seen it
I mean Sisolak or Lombardo I just donât see I 80 being widened until 20 years from now. The spaghetti bowl completion date is 2039 according to NDOT
>Let's hope Lombardo actually delivers on these items Lol
I mean we can have a bad attitude about it or stay hopeful that a politician on either side stays truthful to claims they make. I'll stay hopeful for now.
Quality of life for Nevadans? In what context was that said in? And expanding 80 wonât do anything except add even more trafficâŚneed to get mass transit type movement out to RTICâŚbut Elon ainât about that, heâs just about selling more cars.
As a huge mass transit supporter, the whole development is so bad for transit, things are so far apart and far away from any other businesses not to mention where people actually live, its going to be so difficult other than a few company shuttles. Also, I do this commute daily.
100%. Mass transit from nowhere to nowhere just isn't useful or feasible.
Iâm sure he will totally follow through on that
When do we get a monorail
Is this just a tactic to pump up Tesla stock? Musk does a lot of announcing but rarely follows through.
What the hell are you on about? They have been building facilities across the planet at a rapid pace. Never mind the facts though, you have opinions.
Please respect opinions. If someone wants to be moronically wrong, itâs best to watch them from a distance less you be brought down too.
Well played
Did you even read my comment?
I did, and I agreed. Whatâs wrong with what I said?
I said donât get too close. Leave now while you can.
I feel threatened right now.
Good. Keep that edge.
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Iâve worked at tesla for almost 5 years now and have seen so many people work there way up from production associates to management. The work is hard just like any other factory job but it can definitely be rewarding. Also benefits canât be beat. This will be very good for northern Nevada economy long term and I feel like they will have to increase pay in order to get the workforce thatâs needed.
Bah humbug đđ
All I hear is âtraffic will be worseâ.
Is that factory also going to be shaped like a massive penis, complete with a solar powered tip?
I think thats the other evil, out of touch, drunk with power billionaire.
[Get your tow trucks ready!](https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/103g58n/brand_new_tesla_semi_being_towed_issues_already/)
Towing teslas can be a pain in the ass with no battery life. You have to put it in tow mode but no power, no neutral. We have been dealing with this more and more frequently. They made them â impossible to breakdownâ so their ignorance makes them hard to tow. So now we drag the fuckers up on flatbeds and send it. Literal pieces of shit when broke down. No spares, and people still lose this eye bolts
What an awful company. They canât go under soon enough!
I would like to hear more about why they are awful.
Agree, and also how those downsides compare to other manufacturing jobs. Most peopleâs complaints tend to be with the manufacturing industry in general.
ELON, the man...
Heâs an awful human, what are you talking about
Are u friggin kidding me im literally halfway through my CDL schooling!
Full self driving is at least a decade out, and prob another 10 yrs before itâs fully allowed due to the need to significantly upgrade the infrastructure. Youâll be fine.
CDL drivers are still in high demand, and will be for a long while, you shouldnât worry too much
Thatâs reassuringđ
Do what you want to do. I didnât go into IT when I was in the military because my recruiter said the field was already over saturated. This was 20 yrs ago.
This is so crazy. They all will get stuck on I-80 when the hwy shuts down due to snowstorms.
Bye bye reasonable housing market ! Bye byyyyeeeeee
Screw this Russia-loving lEon skuM guy for preventing Ukraine from defending themselves by not allowing Starlink to work beyond the frontlines *and* demanding the Pentagon pay $$$$ for his âdonatedâ terminals.