Former Tesla workers paint grim picture of Buffalo plant

[WNYresident]

Former Tesla workers paint grim picture of Buffalo plant

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A group of former Tesla workers in Buffalo are breaking their silence about problems they witnessed at the plant, including what they termed as “a lack of urgency” shown by management to improve operations.
In exclusive interviews with News 4 Investigates, former workers described a gloomy picture of the Tesla’s Gigafactory II plant in Buffalo, formally known as Solar City.
They said taxpayer-funded equipment constantly broke down that resulted in production goals never being met and a work atmosphere in which some employees spent more time on personal cell phones than their jobs.
When one of the former workers raised these concerns with management, he said he was told that Tesla is trying to “build the plane as we’re trying to fly it,” and that hiccups are part of being a start-up.
“It’s a wake-up call,” said Dale Witherell, who was among the 50 employees that Tesla laid off in Buffalo, part of a larger 7 percent reduction of its global workforce.
“I don’t know how Gigafactory II has been going on this long without any checks and balances or any government officials or politicians actually monitoring or watching and holding them to some standards.”

https://www.wivb.com/news/investigat...dkDtHz0b_55R4s


I wonder if Amazon could take over the Telsa building and retro fit what they need

[Dan Roman]

Former Tesla workers paint grim picture of Buffalo plant


https://www.wivb.com/news/investigat...dkDtHz0b_55R4s


I wonder if Amazon could take over the Telsa building and retro fit what they need

They have a building in Lancaster

[WNYresident]

Think big... Head quarters...A view of Lake Erie... restaurants in the City... We run a stretch of subway track to their parking lot. We extend the other end of the track past the airport into the burbs.... Make sure it goes by the new Cheektowaga Casino and Convention Center. It's going to be solar powered.. A solar farm is going up right on the other side of the road. Then on the way to Amherst it needs to go the new Eastern Hills Living and Life Center. You know I can go on...

[Dan Roman]

Think big... Head quarters...A view of Lake Erie... restaurants in the City... We run a stretch of subway track to their parking lot. We extend the other end of the track past the airport into the burbs.... Make sure it goes by the new Cheektowaga Casino and Convention Center. It's going to be solar powered.. A solar farm is going up right on the other side of the road. Then on the way to Amherst it needs to go the new Eastern Hills Living and Life Center. You know I can go on...

Ahh Yes, now you’re onto something. But the subway can’t go anywhere practical

[WNYresident]

It becomes practical over time. We will have development begin near each stop. REstaurants and entertainment businesses will pop up near the Casino... Services will be needed around the life and living center.

[grump]

The NFTA has NO history of bringing development along the subway. The subway is a proven job killer and it has taken over 30 years to begin to reinvigorate the dead zone it caused in Buffalo. The subway killed downtown. It’s only now showing any life at all because auto traffic was brought back to Main Street. And why extend the subway to Riverbend to service an almost empty facility? Just find a vacant field and build it to that place.

[grump]

Why did Ch 4 break this story? Where was the Democratic Party public relations office known locally as Ch 2 News? Aren’t they “holding people in power accountable”? Well, not the crooks who made millions off Riverbend, I guess. Their coverage of that story has been minimal and pathetic.

[JFH]

Convert the Telsa building into the "new" Buffalo Convention Center

[WNYresident]

Convert the Telsa building into the "new" Buffalo Convention Center

There you go. Thinking out of box. Would be a boring convention center. It's just basically a box

[grump]

Who cares! No major entity is going to hold a convention in a backwater like Buffalo. Strip the equipment and sell it...for scrap if necessary. Apparently, most of it doesn’t work anyway. Put the building up for auction. Maybe the Senecas will buy it. They’ve created more jobs locally in Il Douche’s time in office than he has. Then throw the people responsible for Riverbend in prison. Oh, wait, some of them are going to be. Ha, ha, hee, hee, ho, ho. But not the one who really should be. Lock that son of a bitch up too.

[WNYresident]

Worse than Amazon: Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion just went bust

Amazon’s pullout Thursday wasn’t even the worst economic development news for Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week: Just two days earlier, his economic development czar basically admitted that the gov’s signature Buffalo Billion is a . . . Buffalo Bust.

In testimony Tuesday, Empire State Development boss Howard Zemsky tried to put a positive spin on it, but he acknowledged that Cuomo’s gamble of $750 million in taxpayer funds on a Buffalo solar panel plant has bombed: On its current course, there’s zero sign it can host anything like the promised number of jobs.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/15/worse-...pMUxXHQjIKyCtU

And this waste is just a fraction of what’s gone on with the gov’s Andy Land projects. Last year, The Post cited $10 billion in such Cuomo handouts, such as $600 million for a computer chip firm that never opened.

Why would the ecdems.com as a group support this nonsense with Cuomo?

[grump]

WNY, the local media coverage of this story has been pathetic. It’s been covered in far greater detail in NYC and even the Syracuse Substandard, er, Post Standard has done a more thorough job of coverage. The coverage here has been tinged with embarrassment that they should even have to report it. And the Democratic Party public relations office known locally as Ch 2 News has tried its best to spin it in a way that makes it upbeat and optimistic. Just this side of a coverup in my opinion.

[WNYresident]

Answer me this. Breezy won't.

Why would the ecdems.com as a group support this nonsense with Cuomo along with what the DNC does.


The basic agenda of the DNC.

Open borders, refugees at the communities expense,. free (fill in the blank) and taxes that can choke a horse.

I had someone on facebook ask me "What is wrong with you" because I'm harping on the ecdems.com/supporters on our town boards.


I know many of the people on our local town boards mean well that are in the Democratic Party but I'm just tired of the BS.


Can we physically sue the people involved who took our money, $750,000,000, and mislead us. Including the political party involved marketing a BS product to the community?

[grump]

WNY, I don’t think the overwhelmingly Dem court system will ever step up to protect taxpayers. The slurping sound you hear in the distance is Democratic judges nursing evermore at the taxpayer funded public tit. But I did see a story headline suggesting that Tesla may be ripe for a takeover by Amazon. Wouldn’t it be a kick right in the rocks to Il Douche if Bezos bought Tesla from the whackjob pillhead and closed down Riverbend as part of his response to the situation in NYC?

[WNYresident]

NY taxpayers have given $1.2 billion to these 43 TV shows, movies in last four years

Forty-three TV shows and movies took $1.2 billion in New York state tax breaks from 2015 to mid-2018, state records show.

New York state sets aside a generous $420 million a year for tax breaks for film studios that make movies and TV shows in the state.

That’s more than any other tax break program in New York state. For comparison, Start-Up New York, which helps new and expanding businesses, was expected to wipe out only $124 million in taxes in the latest fiscal year.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/expo/...vxkNVefuVurwT0


Why can't we physically sue the state Democratic Party including the local party for marketing us bad product?