<story><title>‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/tesla-data-leak-customers-employees-safety-complaints</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&amp;gt; They never sent emails, everything was always oral&lt;p&gt;I work with a guy like that. Send him an email, and if he replies at all it will be with a phone call.</text></item><item><author>ndsipa_pomu</author><text>Also an article on ArsTechnica &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;cars&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;cars&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  For each incident there are key points for the &amp;quot;technical review&amp;quot;. The employees who enter this review into the system regularly make it clear that the report is intended for &amp;quot;internal use only&amp;quot;. Each entry also contains the note in bold type that information, if at all, may only be passed on &amp;quot;VERBALLY to the customer&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  &amp;quot;Do not copy the report below into an email, text message or leave it in a voicemail to the customer,&amp;quot; it continues. Vehicle data should also not be released without permission. If, despite the advice, &amp;quot;a legal involvement cannot be prevented&amp;quot;, this must be recorded.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  Customers that Handelsblatt spoke to have the impression that Tesla employees avoid written communication. &amp;quot;They never sent emails, everything was always oral,&amp;quot; says the doctor from California, whose Tesla said it accelerated on its own in the fall of 2021 and crashed into two concrete pillars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awritawirj</author><text>My graduate advisor was like that. Refused to ever put anything in writing. Would verbally order you to do something, entire room would jump in and say &amp;quot;that doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense, literally doesn&amp;#x27;t add up&amp;quot;, when they would bring it up again I would send them an email stating exactly what was wrong with their idea and why I didn&amp;#x27;t like it, if they insisted I would send them another email stating &amp;quot;although you have not responded to my previous written correspondence, you have verbally commanded me to do this multiple times so I will go ahead with your idea although here is a list of my objections&amp;quot;, and then when the crap idea failed exactly the way everyone in the lab said it would professor would rant that it was your idea and they were always against it and you&amp;#x27;ve wasted everyone&amp;#x27;s time and resources. Not surprisingly, I left with a MS instead of finishing my PhD. What an asshole. Professor recently got tenure, after multiple students and staff (including me) reported them for fraud, embezzlement, and slander.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/tesla-data-leak-customers-employees-safety-complaints</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&amp;gt; They never sent emails, everything was always oral&lt;p&gt;I work with a guy like that. Send him an email, and if he replies at all it will be with a phone call.</text></item><item><author>ndsipa_pomu</author><text>Also an article on ArsTechnica &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;cars&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;cars&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  For each incident there are key points for the &amp;quot;technical review&amp;quot;. The employees who enter this review into the system regularly make it clear that the report is intended for &amp;quot;internal use only&amp;quot;. Each entry also contains the note in bold type that information, if at all, may only be passed on &amp;quot;VERBALLY to the customer&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  &amp;quot;Do not copy the report below into an email, text message or leave it in a voicemail to the customer,&amp;quot; it continues. Vehicle data should also not be released without permission. If, despite the advice, &amp;quot;a legal involvement cannot be prevented&amp;quot;, this must be recorded.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  Customers that Handelsblatt spoke to have the impression that Tesla employees avoid written communication. &amp;quot;They never sent emails, everything was always oral,&amp;quot; says the doctor from California, whose Tesla said it accelerated on its own in the fall of 2021 and crashed into two concrete pillars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gtirloni</author><text>Worked at a fully-remote company that was like that. Anything barely controversial was moved to Zoom for fear of recording incriminating data (which could used by authorities but also by CEO in regular witch hunt). We weren&amp;#x27;t discussing anything illegal but it had the side effect of discouraging any disagreements in writing.</text></comment>