Tesla CEO in Digital Witch Hunt

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"Life for the employees at Tesla Motors has got more depressing over the last few months. Elon Musk is now spying on everyone.

The inquisition began after an engineer named Peng Zhou revealed the company's perilously low $9 million cash balance to Valleywag last October. Musk ordered a heavy-handed investigation. He hired an outside IT contractor go through the company's email and instant messages, and then had an investigator take fingerprints off a printout discarded near a copier used to leak the email. The investigation implicated Zhou. Musk ordered Zhou to confess and apologize to the entire company, and then fired him.

In his latest witch hunt, which our tipster says took place recently, Musk set out to entrap potential leakers by sending each employee a slightly altered version of an email which he expected would get sent to the media. Musk began the memo, "I'm a big believer in trusting employees."

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5164035/tesla-ceo-in-digital-witch-hunt

[Nevernose]

1. It's just like working for a public high school

Depressing and shameful? Yes.
Uncommon? Sadly, no.