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Re:Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks... by azemetre on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @01:55PM (#17076073)
Well one, the employee is getting paid to do the duties their job asks for. They aren't working for free.

Tesla/Musk appears to be following the model of massive greedy billion dollar corporation that would rather take free work than appropriately compensate workers/consultants.

There is a massive difference between BEING PAID and NOT BEING PAID when asked to do work. Seeing how Musk overworks and underpays his workers I'm not surprised by this move.

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Re:Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks... by mikeash on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:14PM (#17076250)
Where do you get that these people aren’t being paid?
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Re:Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks... by azemetre on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @03:19PM (#17076896)
From the User you were replying to: lechiffre10

Also if only the winners are being paid, what about everyone else? They've invested just as much time and their contributions were still valued by Tesla. This isn't Glengarry Glen Ross, these are real humans.

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Re:Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks... by mikeash on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @03:47PM (#17077202)
Well where did they get it from?

As far as I can tell, this “hackathon” is being done by employees on company time, so I’m extremely confused.

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