> Looking forward to having a great week with you as we charge up the super exciting ramp to 5000 Model 3 cars per week!
This was actually the most surprising part to me -- it appears that they believe that they will actually make the 5K/week goal by the end of this quarter.
As to the allegations... the email doesn't say much, but it sounds like a disgruntled employee grabbing data to me, and perhaps modifying some OS code in order to achieve that (eg: backdoor).
If there had been actual, Stuxnet-style sabotage of plant machinery and the like, I would have expected the email to address this instead of leaving every employee in the dark as to why things around them are breaking.
What if that communication was an attempt at discovering the leak source? Maybe there is an uniquely identifiable token or wording in the original mail(s) (per division, or team). Did any one counted the spaces or looked for invisible Unicode characters?
They could also find a few places where synonyms can be substituted without sounding weird, a few places where a comma is optional or can be replaced with a dash, ... much more likely to survive a journalist doing the responsible thing and retyping the e-mail.
For example:
His {stated, claimed} motivation {is, was} that he {wanted a promotion that he did not receive, did not receive a promotion he wanted}. {In light of, Given} {these, his} actions, not promoting him was definitely the right {move, choice}.
This can be detected by people comparing two e-mails, but the unicode trick can often be found just by looking at one of them, so I wouldn't say one is more stealthy than the other.
I don't know if you've worked in a large corporation, but during my time in one we would constantly get senior management talking about how we were doing really well and going to do great things and we were making history.... whilst goals and deadlines were missed constantly and everyone knew we had no chance of meeting them. We had a product delayed by 4 years and when it finally shipped the head of software sent out an email congratulating everyone on their hardwork on that final push to get it out before the EOY deadline (the original deadline was EOY 4 years earlier). It's just what senior management does, don't read into it.
Yeah but in this case, this is not a goal, but the goal everyone both inside and outside has been monitoring closely now.
It could be bullshit, it could be a PR stunt... but to what end? We're going to find out the real number on August 1st anyway, when TSLA reports their Q3 data.
This was actually the most surprising part to me -- it appears that they believe that they will actually make the 5K/week goal by the end of this quarter.
As to the allegations... the email doesn't say much, but it sounds like a disgruntled employee grabbing data to me, and perhaps modifying some OS code in order to achieve that (eg: backdoor).
If there had been actual, Stuxnet-style sabotage of plant machinery and the like, I would have expected the email to address this instead of leaving every employee in the dark as to why things around them are breaking.