Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by RivieraKid on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:38PM (#17297746)

I've become increasingly annoyed by Musk's personality, ego, Twitter tantrums and his deceptive statements. I used to be a big fan and follower of anything Elon-related. Still a fan of SpaceX.

Having said that, I think they make well-designed, innovative and inspiring products. Build quality and financials are terrible though.

> A fund manager can be as risky as she likes

This is off-topic but... am I the only one that finds this cringey and forced, given that it's such a such male-dominated field?

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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:44PM (#17298337)

FWIW, I'm a woman and I'm a big fan of singular they.

It is also possible to avoid pronouns altogether at times. It's more work to both do that and not sound stilted and weird. I have made my peace with occasionally sounding stilted, such as A fund manager can be as risky as a fund manager likes.

When I had a corporate job, some training examples advocated finding ways to rewrite the sentence to sanitize it of gender rather than using awkward constructions like he or she. It's more work, but if you do it habitually it gets easier.

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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by RivieraKid on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:59PM (#17298464)

Yeah, I use "they" most of the time. When I can't think of a phrasing that wouldn't sound weird I occasionally just use "he" or "she", depending on which is more likely. It's not a huge deal.

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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by J_cst on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:14PM (#17298062)

> am I the only one that finds this cringey and forced

You are not the only one. I also find this politically-correctness quite useless and - in this particular case - also insulting towards women.

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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by duderific on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:38PM (#17298298)

Yes, you see that everywhere nowadays... why not just say "A fund manager can be as risky as they like" and leave it at that.

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Re:Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘re... by phyzome on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:04PM (#17298496)

It's an older style of dealing with the pronoun-of-a-hypothetical-person problem. It dates the writer (or style guide) a little.

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