A better title would mention this is an Ex-Tesla worker currently being sued by Tesla...<p>I'm not saying there is no story to be read, in fact I plan to look in depth a bit later, but the current title is somewhat misleading
The media reports on this story are quite conflicting... Not sure who to believe. Is this guy an innocent whistleblower who's being targeted by Tesla or someone with an agenda against Tesla trying to sabotage the company?
As a Monday morning quarterback of Tesla, I'm really curious to see how this turns out. On the one hand, I see whistle blowers as heroes and if they have information about dangerously using unsafe batteries, then that's great.<p>On the other hand, if the early allegations are true that the employee was altering code and logging in under usernames other than their own to do so, that sure doesn't feel like whistleblowing.
> Tripp’s allegations were summarized in a statement from Meissner Associates, a New York-based law firm that represented a former Monsanto Co. employee who was awarded $22 million in August 2016 for tipping off the SEC to improper accounting.<p><i>much later down the winding language of the article</i><p>> Meissner said he won’t be representing Tripp in the federal lawsuit in Nevada. Tripp “is in the process of interviewing attorneys,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday. “It’s not easy to find counsel. There’s almost a cult of Tesla.”<p>Why not present these facts together in one paragraph? Because people don’t read all the way through, and it helps feed rumours.<p>Just another article hitting the HN front page with a sensationalist title and breathless writing.
Tesla should have an internal whistleblower program. Elon Musk should run it himself with a dedicated email address that strips "From" information to anonymize the sender.<p>Really, any CEO of a large company should do this but he's the kind of person that would actually care to hear about problems rather than ignore them.
"a cult of Tesla"<p>Nope, not possible. I mean it would be ridiculous if a large number of people displayed unthinking loyalty to a money-making venture just because it projected an image that catered to their prejudices, wouldn't it?