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Merged Tesla (i.e. Musk) being naughty?

William Parcher said:
Well, he's still going to get a buzz even without inhaling because the THC will cross the oral mucus membranes and enter the bloodstream. Tobacco users (think cigar, pipe and chew) don't need to inhale to get their nicotine fix.
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If it was a spliff that alone is enough to put him into the degenerate Euro trash category. Mixing tobacco with mary jane is just not cricket.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Are Tesla employees drug tested for marijuana use?
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Some even get fired for it.
For former Tesla production employee Crystal Guardado, the image of Musk enveloped in a cloud of smoke was particularly jarring, because she says the company fired her in last year for testing positive for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

“It was just like a slap in the face to me and my son,” said Guardado, a single mother who worked at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory for four months before being dismissed. “Elon Musk is just smoking it out in the open, knowing that he uses his very vague drug policy as a way to fire people that are a threat to him.”

Guardado said she had previously notified Tesla of her outside-work, doctor-recommended use of drops that could make her test positive for THC. She contends that THC was used as a pretext to retaliate against her for being vocal about safety issues and supporting the United Auto Workers union.
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We’re this anyone else, perhaps besides trump, this very forum would be and has, saying “ what’s the big deal?”
 
pipelineaudio said:
We’re this anyone else, perhaps besides trump, this very forum would be and has, saying “ what’s the big deal?”
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No - any CEO managing to take about 10% off the company's share price in a single video would get comment.
 
jimbob said:
No - any CEO managing to take about 10% off the company's share price in a single video would get comment.
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Especially given that it could also jeopardize SpaceX. Lot of people interested in that despite it being a private company.
 
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And Musk's antics make you wonder if did take it private, and got total control of his company, he would run it right into the ground. I think we might be looking at a classic case of "enterprenure's disease" here. The person who is brilliant at taking an idea and building in into a large company is oftern terrible at running the company once it is large. It takes a totally different set of skills. Some people are good at both, but others are not.
 
dudalb said:
And Musk's antics make you wonder if did take it private, and got total control of his company, he would run it right into the ground.
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I don't think that's how a dump&pump scheme works. First you lower the share price to take it over, and then you pump the company back up again.
 
caveman1917 said:
I don't think that's how a dump&pump scheme works. First you lower the share price to take it over, and then you pump the company back up again.
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Part one is fairly easy.

Part two is difficult.
 
If he loses government security clearance because of the pot smoking then it could get much worse.
 
jimbob said:
Part one is fairly easy.

Part two is difficult.
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It depends. If the drop in share price is not driven by fundamentals but by momentary personal behaviour by Musk himself, then part two might just come by itself after Musk changes his personal behaviour again.
 
caveman1917 said:
It depends. If the drop in share price is not driven by fundamentals but by momentary personal behaviour by Musk himself, then part two might just come by itself after Musk changes his personal behaviour again.
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The problem is most of the value of the stock is not based on the fundamentals, but the momentary personal behavior of Musk himself. They simply don't make enough cars or other tech to support the current value. It is all about investing in the genius of Musk.
 
Dr. Keith said:
The problem is most of the value of the stock is not based on the fundamentals, but the momentary personal behavior of Musk himself. They simply don't make enough cars or other tech to support the current value. It is all about investing in the genius of Musk.
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Yeah, Musk is pretty much the value of the company.
What Musk did with the pot pretty much in an equivalent of a CEO showing up for a TV interview drunk. Just not a good look.
 
dudalb said:
SOme of the comments are textbook examples of a personality cult at work. The number of people who made the "Tony Stark In Real Life" comment was interesting. Surprise, Musk attracts the worship of a lot of comic book geeks who want to turn their fantasies into reality.
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How about "Howard Hughes in real life" :P

I'd guess he might have been an inspiration for Tony Stark - but I also guess you'd know more than me on that if I remember your avatars correctly.
 
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The guy smoked a blunt. Not seeing what the fuss is about ( except for the lady who got fired for testing positive on a drug test ).
 
Tony said:
The guy smoked a blunt. Not seeing what the fuss is about ...
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It is still the case that at the federal level pot is a big no-no. SpaceX has US AirForce contracts. It's just that simple.
On the plus side... despite Musk figuratively doing it "right in their faces" (ie: on widely distributed public media)... the USAF is taking it slow with their "we're looking into how to address the issue". With luck, they'll let it go in an attempt to move forward on the whole larger pot issue. They may not have a choice in the end though. We'll see.
Either way, he should have known better... it was a moderately bonehead move on his part.
 
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