>“We were supposed to be paid every 15 days. And then they switched accounting firms, and then it went from 15 days to 60,” Shane said. Now it’s been 123 days since they started digging, and Shane says The Boring Company has only paid out about five percent of what he’s owed. Shocking...I hate it for the contractor but as a middle Tennessee resident I sure hope this project fails. Maybe then the average person here would see Musk for the grifter that he is... Also how is someone with multiple billionaire dollar companies NOT paying the very first bills? I know it's their M.O. - just shafting local family companies like the contractor on this article but at what point does it end? This story should be gaining more traction.
>Also how is someone with multiple billionaire dollar companies NOT paying the very first bills? How do you think they got so rich?
Government assistance? But I know Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Co. All have a history of not paying bills on time or at all. Even if the Boring Co representative says it's unfortunate that payments were missed...and the OSHA violations and attempted poaching of employees was also accidental.
Exactly. Government subsidies propped up Tesla for 17 years. Insanity.
Wow the world’s richest person failing to pay his workers!!!! Why the fuck would you want to work for that asshole???
Nashville, cancel this abomination.
“I didn’t get rich by writing checks!”
Exactly. Anyone who's got more than several times what you could earn in a lifetime did it by fucking people over.
It's almost like people like Musk got rich by fucking people over. Who would've thunk it
Plot twist - they are digging the tunnel with picks and shovels. Designed from first principles
>“Where we’re digging, we’re so far down, there should be concrete and different structures like that to hold the slope back from falling on you while you’re working,” Shane explained. “Where most people use concrete, they currently have — I’m not even kidding — they currently have wood. They had us install wood 2x12s.” Remember when Tesla used wood pieces in their cars. There is no corner they won't cut.
They didn’t even want it iirc. It was the state who made the deal with Musk.
In average, those contractors likely voted for the grift and to eliminate worker’s rights and consumers rights.
Stock went up another 5% when this news broke, I would guess?
Why does that pick have two points when it would work with one?
It started about a month in with a change in pay. “We were supposed to be paid every 15 days. And then they switched accounting firms, and then it went from 15 days to 60,” Shane said. Now it’s been 123 days since they started digging, and Shane says The Boring Company has only paid out about five percent of what he’s owed After the *Banner* contacted The Boring Company about Shane’s claims, Vice President David Buss said he connected with Shane and would make good on the outstanding invoices by the end of the day Wednesday and would do a “full audit” on the error “It does look like we had some invoicing errors on that,” Buss told the *Banner*. “It was, you know, unfortunately, too common of a thing, but I assured them that we are going to make sure that invoices are wired tomorrow.” Every day there's more news about how reprehensible Elon Musk is.
Fucked us all over with literally billions in subsidies and grants on our dime.
The whole city gets musked with that project
Didn't some texas people lose their companies because of this guy's non-payments?
So, the usual with Tesla?
Tesla is govt subsidy play
Correct. Elon didn't have to bribe everyone, only those who make the decisions.
Who the fuck trusts Elon at this point? He’s an obvious liar and grifter. Oh my god these contractors are cooked to work for 4 months with no pay.
Seems about right for a nepo baby who grew up watching his family use slave labor and shoddy excavating techniques in diamond mines.
More and more crap from companies will happen with the current corrupt administration.
Like the Trump families is famous for!
Then turned around and vilified normal tax paying citizens from getting assistance after a lifetime of paying taxes. C'mon Americans wake the fuck up
How does this illegal immigrant steal all of our tax money?
"Where others use concrete, we used wood (not kidding) 2x12s" Jesus fk Christ. Is this the 1600s again?!
The apartheid billionaires yearn for the mines!
“Some of you may die, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay.”
Golly gee whiz, it’s so odd that none of the unpaid workers mentioned this oversight and it wasn’t until the press asked about it that something was going to be done. And by the end of the day, no less! A real fucking head-scratcher.
Edit: So the employees are getting paid, but the trucking company is what is called "working at risk". I worked at a municipality and we would pay 30 days after the job was finished. But we were a municipality and our charter said we had to pay or the city would be on the hook for it. For a company to work with a company affiliated with Musk, he was wise to invoice every 15 days. The bigger issue is the OSHA violations. I work in industrial safety. Not so much excavations, but enough to know it is nothing to fuck around with. At the very least they are in violation of Tennessee state law. Musk is a horrible person and people like my boss need to stop worshipping him. But they get in their head 10 years ago he was a good guy and nothing will change that opinion. All wages or compensation of employees in private employment shall be due and payable not less frequently than once per month: 1. For each employer that makes wage payments once monthly to employees in private employment, all wages or compensation earned and unpaid prior to the first day of any month shall be due and payable not later than the fifth day of the succeeding month. 2. For each employer that makes wage payments in two (2) or more periods per month, all wages and compensation of employees in private employment shall be due and payable as follows: 1. All wages or compensation earned and unpaid prior to the first day of any month shall be due and payable not later than the twentieth day of the month following the one in which the wages were earned; and 2. All wages or compensation earned and unpaid prior to the sixteenth day of any month shall be due and payable not later than the fifth day of the succeeding month.
Technically he is not paying his invoices. The workers are getting paid by the trucking/excavation company. The Boring Company/Musk is not paying the invoices from that company.
From the Trump school of business, Trump SOB
I was confused for a moment why an article about Boeing was on this sub.
It’s a game to them… how much of the bill can they not pay, and get away with it? It’s basically the new tragedy of the commons…
Musk learned from the best, I mean worst.
But the fun thing is it's the state capitol so they are shitting on the locals who are conveniently close to be a problem.
The fact they didn't require a down payment or a performance bond , they got what they deserved.
Sme with Trump. These small companies expect a major windfall and fail to ask why the big companies want nothing to do with the project.
Guess they didn't want to be bored to death
It’s starting to unravel. Musk’s shell game is starting to crack.
> Musk learned from the best, I mean worst. I'm not sure he learned from Trump - I think it was independent evolution.
"World's Richest Man eliminates humanitarian aid for the planet's poorest. 14m expected to die as a result". Should be the headline that follows him around.
So is Elon Trump 2.0?
Same old Musk playbook. He screwed over Twitter creditors when he took over. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/twitter-s-unpaid-bills-create-another-headache-for-elon-musk And Telsa even tried to screw over a small bakery once through non payment https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68404698
Corrupt administration huh so u would rather have Kamala
Where are you guys getting this ridiculous info I'm a current employee of boring a d we are paid every 15 days
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