I see legit cases where someone was seriously harasses or a serious misclassification of employee by employer and they dont pay out anything near this.

lmao CLOWN FKN WORLD

Tesla is a politicized company, and the court was probably biased for sticking it to an autistic white male billionaire.

Ummm, excuse you. Elon Musk is an African-American.

so what was it then, some white guys calling blacks the N word? and tesla said good work LOL
i want to believe

You can tell who's low IQ when they only read tehe article headline (or even worse, just the title of this thread) and already have all their opinions formed.
Regardless, I would've let every single employee abuse me if it meant I got that kind of a payout.

In america it only matters if it happens to a dinger

Mirin hard. I should’ve sued BB.com when a mod (Kenkong) used to edit my posts to say some ****gy **** srs

No idea why the NYT isn't walled for me.

A federal jury in San Francisco has ordered Tesla to pay nearly $137 million to a Black elevator operator who accused the carmaker of ignoring racial abuse he faced while working at the automaker’s factory.

The plaintiff, Owen Diaz, said he worked at the factory in Fremont, Calif., for about a year in 2015 and 2016.There, he said, a supervisor and other colleagues repeatedly referred to him using racial slurs. He gave an account of his experience in a 2018 article in The New York Times.

In an interview on Monday evening, Mr. Diaz said he was relieved by the jury’s verdict, delivered earlier in the day. “It took four long years to get to this point,” he said. “It’s like a big weight has been pulled off my shoulders.”

He said employees had drawn swastikas and scratched a racial epithet in a bathroom stall and left drawings of derogatory caricatures of Black children around the factory. Despite repeated complaints, the company did little to address the behavior, he said.

“It’s not like they were removing the offensive behavior; they would just let people keep adding and adding,” he said.

The jury agreed with Mr. Diaz’s assertion that Tesla had created a hostile work environment by failing to address the racism he faced. A vast majority of the award — $130 million — was punitive damages against the company. The rest, $6.9 million, was for past and future noneconomic damages to Mr. Diaz.

“It’s a great thing when one of the richest corporations in America has to have a reckoning of the abhorrent conditions at its factory for Black people,” Mr. Diaz’s lawyer, Lawrence Organ of the California Civil Rights Law Group, said in an interview.

Mr. Diaz said he had reached a breaking point when he witnessed similar racist epithets directed at his son, Demetric, who secured a job — his first — at the company with Mr. Diaz’s help.

“My son watched his father being broken in front of him,” Mr. Diaz said.

In a message to Tesla staff members that was posted on the company’s website, Valerie Capers Workman, a human resources executive, noted that Mr. Diaz was a contractor, not a Tesla employee, and played down the allegations in the lawsuit.

“In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that they regularly heard racial slurs (including the N-word) on the Fremont factory floor,” she wrote. “While they all agreed that the use of the N-word was not appropriate in the workplace, they also agreed that most of the time they thought the language was used in a ‘friendly’ manner and usually by African-American colleagues.”

The company, she wrote in the email, was responsive to Mr. Diaz’s complaints, firing two contractors and suspending another. Tesla does not believe the facts justify the verdict, she wrote, but acknowledges that the company was “not perfect” in 2015 and 2016. “We’re still not perfect,” she added. “But we have come a long way.”

Mr. Diaz sued Tesla alongside his son and another Black former employee, but only the elder Mr. Diaz’s claims made it to trial. It was not clear whether Tesla planned to appeal the verdict and the damages award.

Easy bag

would never do but cant blame him

and people wonder why companies are moving out of cali to texas.

inb4 he shares that $137,000,000 with his brothers and sisters in the black community


























just you wait guys, he's gonna do it

Was my first thought.

How tf should Tesla have to pay anything for this? Literally everyone knows they say it constantly.

Some black miscers should sue a bunch of hip hop record labels stating they are calling you a ****** and cash in while the getting is good in clown world.

it's alright, he'll piss it all away by Kwanzaa

Thanks for posting.

I'm not here to cape for Tesla but the bathroom graffiti was supposedly removed by janitorial staff. In the quote above, he says it wasn't. Who is lying? Even so, what are they supposed to do to proactively prevent graffiti? If you've even been to a portajohn on a job site, you know how offensive it gets.

I am curious if the supervisor and coworkers were employed by Citistaff or Tesla.

I don't like elon cuck and Tesla but I think it's utter B's when gov fines business that arnt breaking any real law.

Alright jokes aside, they must have done some fcked up chit for Tesla to get hit that hard. N it took place in Cali right? If did, not surprised.

The other day you had a hissy fit because someone bought a $500k Lamborghini but now you're celebrating a guy receiving $137 MILLION for absolutely no reason that he surely won't used to better impoverished communities

I'm all for the victim receiving something for damages but $137 million is obviously way too excessive. All this is going to do is set a precedent, and we are probably going to see a massive amount of lawsuits against businesses in the near future. That would suck to be a business owner and lose your business because one of your employees used a racial slur. That cuck judge should be executed.

Read the articles posted ITT.

Seems pretty ridiculous.

- Tesla says the claimants concerns were addressed
- no hard proof re:claimants allegations

Hopefully it gets thrown out on appeal. Otherwise companies will definitely be playing hard defense, meaning that they will either adopt zero tolerance policies or will avoid hiring black employees because of the double jeopardy of potentially disciplining/firing blacks that use n----- among themselves only to face potential lawsuits for racism for disciplining/firing those same people.

If employers feel that they can't win then they may just choose not to play.

Just LOL at this country.

After affirmative action passed, employers stopped hiring unskilled, inexperienced, and uneducated blacks and replaced them with the opposite and continued paying the same amount for those positions.

These Marxists and social justice judges need to be very careful they don’t cause another massive shift in hiring practices of businesses.

I realize there could be more to this story, but these are the implications of pretending it’s ok for blacks to use the N word.

Low standards does not lead to high standards

Wtf is an "elevator operator"? Dis soviet russia where you can't push a button?

wish i was black. so many things to capitalize on.

Thats because OP is a race baiting moron. He probably didnt even read the articles he posted as well.

2007 join date, 9k posts, 30k rep power. all you need to know

i was thinking the same thing. i could easily avoid lawsuits by discreetly hiring whites and asians

This is another point to make; Tesla was creating positions for individuals that would not normally be qualified for anything else. You just need to have soft skills and get a little training. If the building of large, an elevator operator would make sure people aren’t hitting the wrong button and causing employees and customers from being able to efficiently use it.

That being said, its a position easily dissolved in hard times. This is one of those opportunities that are undermined often. It gave him a job when no one else would hire him.

I can't even imagine being that insecure and thin skinned that I would contemplate involving the legal system over being called a name. Grow up and be a man.

Company is a joke. I'm getting a Nissan Leaf instead when I have to get a new car