He’s also a very interesting man who has lots of ideas going on in his head, especially ideas on how to run a company efficiently. The world found this out after an email he sent to his employees in 2018 was leaked that included six rules for Tesla staff to follow if they wanted to work at the company. The email states different rules on what employees have to do to make Tesla successful, with an emphasis on rules involving straightforward communication and no time wasted. RELATED: 11 Strict Rules That Elon Musk Allegedly Makes His Girlfriends & Wives Follow
Here are the rules that Elon Musk makes his employees follow:
In order for his employees to work towards success, Musk doesn’t believe in a communication hierarchy if the task can be solved with common sense. Big meetings are a waste of time and aren’t worth it to him. RELATED: Elon Musk Says He’s Living In A ‘Technology Monastery’ Following Murky Split With Grimes Musk allegedly thought this rule was important to address because frequent meetings can alter the workflow and rhythm of a workplace. However, this rule scared employees who started to worry that they might be perceived as “wasting” Musk’s time even with a simple question and would be reprimanded or even fired. There was allegedly fear that they could become the victim of one of “Elon’s rage firings.” According to Business Insider, Tesla employees weren’t allowed to walk past Musk’s desk or it could jeopardize their career. RELATED: Woman Gives Birth In Front Seat Of Tesla While Car Is On Autopilot This rule might be the least harsh out of all of them as there are some meetings companies have where employees feel they are wasting their time attending but they might just be worried about just leaving. However, for Musk, if you stay and don’t add value or contribute to the meeting then you will be reprimanded because he sees that as wasting others’ time and energy talking to you. RELATED: Why Elon Musk And Grimes Broke Up A Year And A Half After The Birth Of Their Baby ‘X’ Musk believes that using general words and sentences is the appropriate way to communicate. Don’t try and use big words with the big man because apparently, he doesn’t like confusing, overly technical words. RELATED: 7 Reasons People Seem To Hate Elon Musk “A major source of issues is poor communication between departments. The way to solve this is to allow the free flow of information between all levels. If in order to get something done between departments, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.” RELATED: Elon Musk Is Living In A 375 Sq Foot Tiny Home That Definitely Won’t Fit Grimes, Baby X Æ A-XII & His 5 Other Kids This rule can be a bit confusing because it’s saying don’t follow the rules but use your common sense. It’s also concerning because something an employee might think is an obviously ridiculous rule might not be ridiculous to Musk, therefore furthering the confusion. After these rules were created, the Tesla workers were allegedly threatened by Musk, according to NLRB (National Labor Relations Board), he tried to fire a worker for union organizing. He also wrote a tweet in 2018 that said, “Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?” Soon after, the NLRB started an investigation into the company union-busting. According to CNBC, in March 2021, the NLRB decided — after a years-long legal battle between the company and the United Auto Workers union — that Tesla must tell CEO Elon Musk to delete the anti-union tweet as a part of Tesla’s appeal of a September 2019 ruling by an administrative law judge who considered the complaint. RELATED: 14 Weird Rules The Nannies Of Kardashian Kids Have To Follow Megan Hatch is a writer at YourTango who covers news & entertainment, love & relationships, and internet culture. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
