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[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.816.412 von Boblovin am 12.02.22 07:14:21

Tag:
10-K -- Annual Report 2021 (3)


Kann es sein, daß Tesla vor allem deshalb am Tesla Bot aka Optimus in 2022e relativ kostengünstig herumschrauben will, statt mal beim:

• Roadster 2.0
• Semi
• Cybertruck

...nach Jahren(!) zu Potte kommen, weil der Bau der Giga Austin und Giga Berlin derzeit so viel Geld verschlingen?

Und daß das im offensichtlich stramm getunten Annual Report 2021 irgendwie vertuscht werden soll, nicht zuletzt deshalb, um EM's Mega-Cashout in 2021Q4 irgendwie zu rechtfertigen?


Aber gut, daß in 2022 EM ein ganz großes Bling-Bling präsentieren kann. Sozusagen das größte, was die Welt derzeit bestaunen kann:


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1491817170258563080



Noch.

[Boblovin]

https://twitter.com/bbm010/status/1492245939062517760?t=HT_w…

$TSLAQ Q4 could earn the lifetime achievement award for accrual manipulations. $790 mm potential manipulations. A crowning achievement for Zack. (1/10)

CEO performance awards: Page 84 of the K: vested but not accrued expense of $65m. To be accrued in 0.6 years (219 days or 7.3 months.) This is also the award winner for stupidity of a disclosure. 0.6 years? (2/10)

Prepaids: Cashflow Stmt and Balance Sheet. There was a decrease in the balance sheet, but the cash flow reported larger fall. $109m. There is a small accounts receivable included in the total so there may be some play in this number. (3/10) https://t.co/oAdJdlmh1Y

Deferred Revenues: Page 56 of the K: $25m of a contract adjustment + an additional $66m accrued. Total of $88m Look at Q1, 2, & 3. All the $70m range. Q4? 136m. It’s also the first contract adjustment of the year. (4/10) https://t.co/kpTHklE3jW

Sales Type Leasing: Income Stmt & Balance Sheet. Using the Q4 2020 implicit lease rate (3.19%) vs Q4 2021 implicit lease rate (negative 2.17% - yes it was negative) gives a $289m contribution to profits. (5/10) https://t.co/FzrmiLbSFb

Warranty: Page 67. There is nothing easier that a currency translation of $160m that exceeds the warranty costs by $16m. (6/10) https://t.co/ejLpBnbSLP


Sales Return Reserve: Page 56 of the K. This is a unique accounting treatment. $TSLA sells/sold and leased vehicles with a guaranteed buyback price. ASC 606 requires a reserve for potential returns of vehicles. It also impacts COGS (7/10)

In Q4, two interesting disclosures were made. Sales return reserve is no longer included in Critical Audit Matters (CAM) and they reversed $365m of reserves and recognized $286m of COGS. Netting a gross profit of $79m. (8/10)

Look at the attached account analysis. It occurred in Q4 gauging from the balance changes (Q3 total vs Q4 total) which gives the appearance of a greater sales volume. (9/10) https://t.co/Pa4y4MOyh7

Total butchers bill: CEO Options: 65mm, Warranty: $160m, Sales Return Reserve: $79m, Sales Type Leasing: $289m, Prepaids: $109m, Deferred Revenues: $88m. Total of $790mm. Add ZEV credits and it’s a blistering $1,104mm of the $2,343mm profit (47%). (10/10)

[walker333]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.804.004 von walker333 am 11.02.22 02:20:49

Das Tesla Auto fährt alleine, schießt mit knapp 70 Meilen pro Stunde das Polizeiauto ab.

Wunderlich, dass nicht längst alle Tesla Autos in USA stillgelegt sind bis zum abstellen der Funktion, dass Fahrer das Auto selbstständig fahren lassen können. Die Tesla Autos scheinen selbst dann nicht zu stoppen, wenn nach z.B. 5 Sekunden nicht wieder die Hände ans Lenkrad gelegt werden ...

[walker333]

Schon wieder: Tesla In Autopilot Crashes Into North Carolina Police Vehicle

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Wieder kracht ein Tesla Auto in ein Polizeiauto. Im "Autopilot Modus", wie es heißt.

Tesla ruft zehntausende Autos mit ihrem Level 2 Fahrassistenzsystem zurück.

Deutschland gilt als anspruchsvollster der großen Automärkte weltweit. Die Sicherheitsbewußten darunter werden wohl keinen Tesla kaufen ...

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Watch: Tesla In Autopilot Crashes Into North Carolina Police Vehicle
10.02.2022

Police dashcam footage shows the moments a Telsa in Autopilot mode crashed into a sheriff patrol car in Nash County, North Carolina. Tesla has recalled tens of thousands of vehicles due to the rolling stop function in full self driving mode.

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.803.623 von faultcode am 10.02.22 23:24:05

Zitat von faultcode: ...Specifically, DFEH invited Tesla to participate in a mediation session with the department’s internal dispute resolution division on January 12 and 20, 2022, but Tesla refused to attend until February 8, 2022
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zur Erinnerung: bei Frau Workman, VP People, war laut Bloomberg am 10.1., also 2 Tage zuvor Schluss und ich glaube sogar aus eigenen Stücken:

Zitat von faultcode: ...

https://twitter.com/business/status/1480635089029672968
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-10/tesla-s-m…
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https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-s-most-prominent-black-exe…
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Workman, an attorney who started in Tesla’s legal department in 2018, was elevated to the vice president of people position in July 2020 and reported directly to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk.
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Valeria Capers Workman
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8303743/Elon-Musk-s…


=> ich glaube nicht, daß dieser Abgang für die Black and/or African American workers in Fremont, oder auch schon in Austin, irgendwie von Vorteil sein kann

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.803.794 von faultcode am 10.02.22 23:48:34

Fremont (7/7)

hier eine Aufzählung der formal aufgeführten 13 Klagepunkte (Causes of action = Gründe für die Klage):

1. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Harassment
2. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Assignment
3. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Compensation
4. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Discipline
5. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Promotion
6. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Termination
7. Employment Discrimination Because of Race - Constructive Discharge --> (FC): Constructive Discharge in California: Did I Quit or Was I Fired? https://www.worklawyers.com/constructive-discharge-terminati…
8. Retaliation
9. Failure to Prevent Discrimination and Harassment (On Behalf of the Group)
10. Failure to Prevent Discrimination and Harassment (On Behalf of DFEH)
11. Unequal Pay
12. Waiver of Rights, Forums, or Procedures and Release of Claims
13. Failure to Retain and Produce Records (on Behalf of DFEH Only)


Das DFEH verlangt auch "Compensatory and punitive damages"

Und daneben wie zu erwarten: Lohnnachzahlungen aller Art, Pension benefits and awards, ...

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.803.749 von faultcode am 10.02.22 23:43:44

Fremont (6) -- die Lösung: Outsourcing

aber Tesla Fremont fand eine Lösung zu ihrem offenkundig systematischen Problem:
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As early as 2012, Tesla began employing workers through numerous staffing agencies. Tesla progressively reduced the number of employees it hired directly and increased the number of workers it hired through staffing agencies. Tesla also mandated the staffing agencies it contracted with to require all workers to sign arbitration agreements before being assigned to Tesla.

In 2021, Tesla contracted with at least fourteen staffing agencies, some of which subcontracted out with other staffing firms.

Tesla did this to avoid responsibility over its workers. If the complainant and/or alleged harasser were from a staffing agency, then the staffing agency itself had to investigate the complaint.

Tesla human resources administrator Annalisa Heisen, testifying as the person most knowledgeable about the internal complaints and investigation procedures at the Fremont factory, affirmed that Tesla expected staffing agencies to train subcontractors – the term Tesla used for workers who were assigned from a staffing agency – on Tesla’s anti-harassment policies and to investigate allegations of racial harassment when subcontractors were involved.
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Black and/or African American workers have suffered and will continue to suffer harm from Defendants’ ongoing unlawful policies and practices unless they are enjoined by this Court.

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.803.707 von faultcode am 10.02.22 23:36:50

Fremont (5) -- es gibt "Blut-Diamanten" und es gibt "Blut-Autos"

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Many Black and/or African American workers reported that the Fremont factory was racially segregated where areas of the factory staffed by Black workers were referred to as “the dark side.”
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For many Black and/or African American workers, the stress from the severe and pervasive racial harassment, the risk of a physical altercation and escalation with harassers, the blatant discrimination, the disproportionately severe discipline, and the futility of complaining, made the working conditions so intolerable that they resigned.
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The problems of race harassment and discrimination were widely known by Defendants’ management, representatives, and human resources department because workers complained.
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Worse, Defendants’ management retaliated against Black and/or African American workers for complaining. Complainants were denied bonuses, promotions, and other professional opportunities. They were falsely accused of being late, unjustifiably written up, denied transfers, assigned to physically strenuous posts or undesirable locations, constructively discharged, or terminated. For those who needed a reasonable accommodation, their requests for a reasonable accommodation were denied in retaliation. As a consequence, many Black and/or African American workers aggravated their injuries or disabilities.
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DFEH’s investigation revealed that in 2016, before Tesla established its employee relations department, Tesla had only 33 human resources professionals and managers to serve 19,916 workers in California. That is a ratio of about one human resources officer to 604 workers. In 2020, that ratio rose to about one human resource member to 740 workers.
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Investigations took months to complete. For example, an investigation of a race complaint, where only one witness was interviewed, took close to six (6) months to complete.
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[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.803.623 von faultcode am 10.02.22 23:24:05

Fremont (4) -- der CEO "schlief ja auf dem Fabrikboden" (#)

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Because the factory was racially segregated, Defendants’ workers referred to the areas where many Black and/or African Americans worked as the “porch monkey station.” Defendants’ workers with tattoos of the Confederate flag made their racially incendiary tattoos visible to intimidate Black and/or African American workers.

Racial slurs were also dispensed in Spanish and included “mayate” and “negrita.” Additionally, Defendants’ workers referred to the Tesla factory as the “slaveship” or “the plantation,” where Defendants’ production leads “crack[ed] the whip.”

Many Black and/or African American workers understood these terms to be references to how Defendants treated its Black and/or African American workers. One Black worker heard these racial slurs as often as 50-100 times a day.
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One worker witnessed only Black and/or African American workers cleaning the factory floor on their hands and knees. No other groups of workers had to do the same.
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(#) zur Erinnerung:
18.4.2018
Elon Musk is stressed, says he’s sleeping on Tesla factory floor and has no time to go home and shower
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleepin…
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Earlier in April, Musk said he would handle direct oversight of Model 3 production. “My job as CEO is to focus on what’s most critical, which is currently Model 3 production,” tweeted Musk.
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Musk has talked about leading from the front lines before.
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“I always move my desk to wherever — well, I don’t really have a desk, actually. I move myself to wherever the biggest problem is in Tesla,” said Musk in November. “I really believe that one should lead from the front lines and that’s why I’m here.”

Musk said he had been at the factory at all hours.
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=> seltsam, daß so ein CEO offensichtlich nichts von den in der Klage vorgetragenen Behauptungen mitbekommen hat

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 70.803.581 von faultcode am 10.02.22 23:13:05

Fremont (3) -- Tesla gab erst in allerletzter Sekunde nach; nun halt mit Klage

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After approximately three years of investigation, receiving hundreds of complaints from workers and serving many to Tesla, DFEH issued a cause finding on January 3, 2022.
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DFEH’s investigation also found that Defendants required Black and/or African American workers to waive rights, forums, and/or procedures as a condition of employment, continued employment, or the receipt of any employmentrelated benefit.
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Doch war Tesla erst in allerletzter Sekunde zur vorgeschriebenen Schlichtung bereit:

DFEH attempted to resolve this matter without litigation.

Prior to filing this civil action, the DFEH required all parties to participate in mandatory dispute resolution in the department’s internal dispute resolution division free of charge to the parties in an effort to resolve the dispute without litigation.

Specifically, DFEH invited Tesla to participate in a mediation session with the department’s internal dispute resolution division on January 12 and 20, 2022, but Tesla refused to attend until February 8, 2022

One day before the mediation, on February 7, 2022, Tesla announced the DFEH investigation for the first time during the three-year investigation in its Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K.
The parties were unable to resolve the administrative complaints at the mediation. Then in the morning of February 9, 2021, Tesla issued a post entitled “The DFEH’s Misguided Lawsuit” on its public blog.
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