This reminds me of a story a black guy at work told me. He said he was riding the bus to work and a car on the road accidentally bumped into the bus. It was a small dent but right after the impact all the blacks riding the bus fell onto the floor and pretended to be injured so that they could make a phoney claim to the insurance company. He was saying the bus has cameras on it they won't get away with it.
runnerboy70 wrote:
efrenl wrote:
Yes, based on the comments on this thread it is soooooo hard to imagine that the allegations may be true.
/s
Yah...Anyone who thinks this guy might be a fraudster HAS to be a racist...
YOU are what's wrong with America...
Except there are posts that go beyond “thinking this guy might be a fraud” to actually being racist. Nice try.
That's bad...but $130M bad? For graffitti?
fully-vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:
That's bad...but $130M bad? For graffitti?
Imagine the actions kept occuring unchecked and something even worse happened to him. This is a lesson to corporations to get their workplace in order.
Imagine the type of people that believe they can treat a coworker this way and not think their job was in jeopardy. Lots of privilege gone to their head here. This is how the world balances itself out I suppose
westsouthrunner wrote:
fully-vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:
That's bad...but $130M bad? For graffitti?
Imagine the actions kept occuring unchecked and something even worse happened to him. This is a lesson to corporations to get their workplace in order.
Imagine the type of people that believe they can treat a coworker this way and not think their job was in jeopardy. Lots of privilege gone to their head here. This is how the world balances itself out I suppose
The premise of the case is super weird...
I've worked in plenty of companies and have never seen anyone openly drawing black caricatures to mock black people. EVERYONE I work with would have a problem with it. EVERY HR department would have a problem with it. And aren't Californians super liberal and totally love black people? And this happens in Fremont?
Feels like Althea Bernstein again, but this guy got a lawyer to believe him.
The whole thing might be a hoax..Seems to happen quite often.
brien evans wrote:
westsouthrunner wrote:
Imagine the actions kept occuring unchecked and something even worse happened to him. This is a lesson to corporations to get their workplace in order.
Imagine the type of people that believe they can treat a coworker this way and not think their job was in jeopardy. Lots of privilege gone to their head here. This is how the world balances itself out I suppose
The premise of the case is super weird...
I've worked in plenty of companies and have never seen anyone openly drawing black caricatures to mock black people. EVERYONE I work with would have a problem with it. EVERY HR department would have a problem with it. And aren't Californians super liberal and totally love black people? And this happens in Fremont?
Feels like Althea Bernstein again, but this guy got a lawyer to believe him.
Eh good point. Hope they have security cameras or something. Doesn't help Tesla or those in denial that this could occur that there are other similar lawsuits against Tesla themselves. Or even the Jury that decided in Owen's favor
"Tesla uses mandatory arbitration to compel employees to resolve disputes behind closed doors rather than in a public trial.
Like other companies that use mandatory arbitration, Tesla rarely faces significant damages or takes deep corrective actions after arbitrators settle a dispute. However, Tesla was required to pay $1 million — as the result of an arbitration agreement — to another former worker, Melvin Berry, who also endured a racist, hostile workplace at Tesla.
A pending class-action lawsuit in Alameda County in California — Vaughn v. Tesla Inc. — also alleges that Tesla is rife with racist discrimination and harassment."
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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.htmlIt does look like they have made measures to try to stop things like this occurring again after 2016
troll_69 wrote:
Pulling on the boots wrote:
just to have some lazy black take it all away by means of the so called justice system.
Bet this thread will not be deleted.
Pleasantly surprised the mods at least edited the OP. +1 for mods, for once lol
And they wonder why none of us white people have any ambition or industriousness anymore. Gee, I wonder why.
geeee wrote:
And they wonder why none of us white people have any ambition or industriousness anymore. Gee, I wonder why.
So you're saying white people lack ambition and industriousness? That seems pretty racist.
Weirdly enough, the 130 million is punitive. That money goes to the government. 6.9 million goes to the plaintiff. Which is high, but supposedly is a lifetime (40 years) of pay for an average tesla employee
I say its a dangerous way to go...
Companies Will be reluctant to hire People of color (like myself) if THE verdict stays...
If being called mean words can get you 130 million dollars then sign me up, man. Give me some of that racism.
The funny thing is this guy is probably going to blow through this money in a year or two tops like 99% of the lottery winners and can never land a job again. Good luck to him.
The tort system in California is a joke. One of many reasons why so many companies are leaving the state. The guy worked there 9 months.
Ok, LR is showing it's racism and low IQ again, so I guess it needs the obvious pointing out AGAIN.
The £130 million are for "punitive damages". Look it up, understand, then realise it's nothing to do with the individual, it's about the company and racism.
Get it in your heads, and take some lessons on racism. Read a book on it, do something, but please don't be so ignorant for the rest of your lives, try and improve yourself, if only a little bit. Here is a perfect opportunity to rectify your ignorance.
Don't forget George Floyd held a pregnant woman up at gun point, and was a seven time felon. So the liberals on here need to pick a side, either you care about womens' rights or you think George Floyd was a phenonemal human being. It truly blows my mind that if someone gets killed, all of their horrendous acts are washed away because of race.
Bicurious wrote:
Don't forget George Floyd held a pregnant woman up at gun point, and was a seven time felon. So the liberals on here need to pick a side, either you care about womens' rights or you think George Floyd was a phenonemal human being. It truly blows my mind that if someone gets killed, all of their horrendous acts are washed away because of race.
Ok right, so Derek Chauvin was serving justice for women's rights on the streets of Minneapolis? If I've gotta pick a side I need to know this...
"Owen Diaz" doesn't even sound black to me. Mexican isn't a race. So, discriminating against a Mexican for being Mexican (which is inexcusable) is not "racism" per se.
This is a giant signal that says "Don't hire minorities because they will sue you and win baseless judgements against you"
Hurno wrote:
Szolt Bende wrote:
[quote]Ernest wrote:
First, what the Jury awards isn't necessarily or usually the actual judgment.
Second, it is hard to believe this would not be appealed.
Insult, particularly, racist-motivated insult is an affront. If that can be attributed in part to Tesla's negligence, they are rightly wrong and liable - but an award of many hundreds of lifetimes worth of earnings? Is that proportionate and equitable? What does this incent?
Why 137 million dollars? Why not 1.37 billion? Or 13.7 billion?
It's "front page" news because it makes no sense to most everyone. Alternate-reality jury verdicts like this make a mockery of our judicial system - and mint fresh batches of Republicans.[/
No. Republicans are not made by random events such as this. They are made by ignorant, intolerant homes and school districts with misleading textbooks. Don’t blow a court decision with which you happen to disagree out of proportion. I doubt you actually believe your assertion anyway.
"[Republicans voter] are made by ignorant, intolerant homes and school districts with misleading textbooks"
What a dumb take. Things aren't the same as 20-30 years ago, I now question whether this was even true back then.
I'm not a Republican voter, and I can still tell you that you have a gross misunderstanding of the mindset, intentions, and motivations of Republican voters.
Republican states are usually undereducated compared to other states. Come to one of them and spend some time there and you'll see that the percentage of Republican voters who don't know what they're talking about it is much higher than the percentage of Democratic voters who don't know what they're talking about.
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