you do understand he gets stock? You understand he cant sell it? why do people like yourself struggle with elementary ideas such as money? there is much to criticize the deal ( just let chatgpt do the work since you are unable to comprehend secondary effects). He has already paid more taxes than mist billionaires. But that isnt enough for you.
Elon Musk's Boring Company Fined Nearly $500,000 for Environmental Violations The Boring Company, owned by Elon Musk, has been penalized with a fine of almost $500,000. The fine was imposed by a county environmental regulator for causing significant damage to the county’s infrastructure by dumping drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes. The Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD) issued a notice of violation to the Boring Company last week. The notice accuses the company’s employees of continuing to dump drilling fluids even after being instructed to stop by the inspectors. The company seemingly complied the following day, but resumed the dumping once they believed the inspectors had left, reports the Fortune. The CCWRD had to clean up 12 cubic yards of drilling mud and other waste from one of its sewage treatment facilities due to the discharges by the Boring Company. The drilling fluids and spoils mentioned in the citation are believed to be the toxic liquid that collects at the bottom of the tunnels as the company’s machinery drills through earth and rock. This liquid can contain a variety of chemicals, including MasterRoc AGA 41S, which has caused burns to many Boring workers when they were directly exposed to it. According to the outlet, the hefty fine of $493,297.08, which includes $131,297.08 for the district’s expenses to remedy the fluid dumping, is due to “the egregious nature of the violations, the substantial damage to district infrastructure, the district emergency resources expended responding to the Violations, and the company’s acknowledgement of responsibility for the Violations.” Why It Matters: This is not the first time the Boring Company has been in the limelight for the wrong reasons. The company has been accused on several occasions of bypassing safety protocols or regulations as it constructs a network of tunnels below Las Vegas. In the past three years, CCWRD has only issued a fine greater than $100,000 to one other company for wastewater discharge. This incident further adds to the growing list of allegations against the Boring Company, raising concerns about its operational practices.
Deaf Man Sues Tesla for Firing Him When His Hearing Aids Malfunctioned A former Tesla employee claims he was fired after raising complaints about how the extreme heat of his work environment was causing his hearing aids to malfunction. The man, Hans Kohls, made the allegations in a lawsuit against the Elon Musk owned automaker, which was filed Monday and obtained by The Independent. Kohls, who is deaf, previously worked at Tesla’s enormous Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where he was given a job melting aluminum at 1,220 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the reporting. The “extreme heat and moisture” of the casting department, which “far exceed standard industrial heat levels,” the lawsuit said, caused his hearing aids to fail, something that was not only a massive inconvenience, but dangerous: it would be impossible for Kohl to hear alarms and other safety alerts without them. But when Kohl asked to be reassigned, the suit alleges, Tesla failed to comply with the regulations of the Americans With Disabilities Act and instead fired him. “The facts of this case are stark and troubling,” Kohls’ attorney Andrew Rozynski told The Independent. “Tesla had a highly qualified employee who requested the most basic accommodation under the ADA, reassignment to a vacant position where he’d already demonstrated success. Instead of complying with the law, they fired him within nine days and told him he was being ‘medically separated.'” The lawsuit adds to longstanding scrutiny over Tesla’s grueling workplace conditions. Several deaths have occurred at its factories, and the company has been accused of underreporting hundreds of workplace injuries. Much attention has also been paid to Musk’s personal treatment of employees. He has a history of impulsively firing employees on the spot during his frequent fits of rage, and allegedly threatened to deport an employee who raised a critical safety issue. Kohls applied for an internship through Tesla’s START program for training candidates to work technical jobs at the company in February 2024, the lawsuit said. He had previously worked in an industrial environment at another job, so when he was asked in an interview whether he would still be able to work in a hot environment after the interviewer noticed his hearing aid, he answered yes. But “neither the application nor the interview disclosed that the Casting Department’s extreme heat and humidity conditions would far exceed standard industrial heat levels,” the lawsuit stated. Adding to the feeling of deception, Kohls was first sent to work at different departments at the Texas Gigafactory where conditions were much cooler. In other words, nothing Tesla had him train for prepared him for the extreme heat he would face when he was assigned to the casting department. Kohls soon filed a transfer request in June 2024 to Tesla HR, asking to be sent to another position where his hearing aids could still function, a form of disability accommodation that’s obligated by the ADA, the suit argues. Instead, Tesla insisted that no other jobs were available — which the suit says is untrue — and that the START program “prohibited transfers.” Nine days later, Kohls was fired, and was told he was being “medically separated.” “By characterizing the termination as ‘medical separation,’ Tesla revealed it was terminating Mr. Kohls because he had a disability that required accommodation — not for any legitimate, non-discriminatory reason,” reads the suit. “By characterizing the termination as ‘medical separation,’ Tesla revealed it was terminating Mr. Kohls because he had a disability that required accommodation — not for any legitimate, non-discriminatory reason,” reads the suit. Kohls is demanding that he be reinstated to a new position at Tesla and is asking a judge to declare the automaker in violation of the ADA and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, according to The Independent.
Guys like Musk, Trump, and the oil billionaires could care less about violating safety or spewing toxins. The fines are nothing to them. They will just keep doing it until the laws against repeated violations land their asses in prison, or their companies are shut down.
you would prefer to bankrupt tesla. Then we could have more ICE cars polluting toxins into our environment.
What's crazy about jerk off`s like Musk and Tramp is, you never hear about them being philanthropists like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates (who may be an ass but gives his $$ away)...................such Christian Values they have
I prefer that companies stop violating the laws, abusing workers, and ignoring safety violations and regs. It's that simple.
This is someone who repeatedly demonstrates a lack of empathy and awareness, is proud of it and wears it like a badge.
