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Luxury electric vehicle maker becomes latest in industry to announce huge layoffs Bid to lower expenses amid slowdown in market
dailycaller.com ^ | 5/24/2024 | Will Kessler

Posted on 05/26/2024 2:01:07 PM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

Oh the irony of an EV maker called Lucid.


41 posted on 05/26/2024 4:21:40 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Reno89519

“23 minutes if you live at the nearest end of Sparks, which is not a nice part of town. How about if you live up north? “

That is from central sparks. North Sparks is only about a mile (or less) further. About 21 miles, mostly interstate.


42 posted on 05/26/2024 4:24:32 PM PDT by TexasGator
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And $34.50 means about $71,000 per year. For a career worker. Add in their commute time to and from the work site, which they don't get paid for even if they ride the company buses, that means $27.60. Rent for a decent place is around $2,000. Gas is around $5 per gallon, etc. That's not much.

Those places out at the Telsa, Amazon, and other places east of Sparks can't keep the lower paying workers because even the $22 really means $17.60 and they cannot afford to live.

I presume the so-called top workers are skilled, they need hire pay.

43 posted on 05/26/2024 4:27:02 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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Central Sparks with gunfire nearly every night. North Sparks is anything north of Disc Drive. Would you want to live anywhere within the McCarran loop in Sparks?! I sure wouldn’t.


44 posted on 05/26/2024 4:29:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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“Central Sparks with gunfire nearly every night. North Sparks is anything north of Disc Drive. Would you want to live anywhere within the McCarran loop in Sparks?! I sure wouldn’t.”

Costco to Gigafactory 23 miles. Mostly interstate. Definitely not an hour drive.


45 posted on 05/26/2024 4:35:58 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Reno89519

I-80 has an 80 mph limit. No way this is an hour drive.


46 posted on 05/26/2024 4:41:43 PM PDT by TexasGator
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Apparently it’s a low smoldering fire. But, yes, odd there’s no visible smoke.


47 posted on 05/26/2024 4:45:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: rktman

This was a scam to begin with

A scam

I had bought the stock at about 21$ and sold close to 30$ after the stock tumbled from about 60$. I should have sold at the high but lucky I got out making some money

Stock is below 3$

Scam


48 posted on 05/26/2024 4:45:52 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yup! Read about it the other day. 7 million or so gallons already and millions more to maybe put it out. If the hydrogen cyanide doesn’t get ya.


49 posted on 05/26/2024 4:49:11 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: TexasGator

Obviously you don’t live in the area. The 80 MPH starts out past Lovelock. They lowered the rate between Fernley and Sparks because of the accidents. It is now 65 and has been for at least a year or two. And during ice and snow it is frequently closed, forcing the Carson City-Dayton route if the road between Reno and Carson City is open. And going that way around is 1-1/2 to 2 hours. I’ve lived here since 2014 and have traveled both routes extensively for work—we couldn’t keep people working because of the long problematic commute and low pay. That is why companies out there are always hiring, because of high turnover.


50 posted on 05/26/2024 4:49:58 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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😂. North valleys are a nightmare coming and going with all the “distribution centers” and the 395 road work to Golden Valley. Problem with their plan is that 395 still reduces to two lanes at Golden Valley north bound. Derp dee der! Lucky we have alternate routes out.


51 posted on 05/26/2024 4:56:10 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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And Pyramid getting reworked. Plus, they are gearing up to do roadwork on I-80 out to the USA Parkway and Tesla. That’ll add to the fun.


52 posted on 05/26/2024 4:59:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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Why don't you move to one of those new apartments by the Costco, get a job at Tesla or Amazon or one of the other companies out there, and enjoy the commute for a year. Will you last a year? Doubt it.

It's a job many try, but quickly quit. For the unskilled, there are many better paying jobs locally without the commute. Last I saw Chewy was paying in the upper 20s per hour. I heard some fast food places are paying close to $30 per hour in Reno.

53 posted on 05/26/2024 5:04:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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“Will you last a year? Doubt it.”

I lasted over seven years with an almost 60 mile similar drive in AZ.


54 posted on 05/26/2024 5:11:40 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Reno89519

“I heard some fast food places are paying close to $30 per hour in Reno.”

Burger flippers don’t make $60k a year!


55 posted on 05/26/2024 5:14:43 PM PDT by TexasGator
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It was an ice-cream place actually. My son was discussing it recently. The McDonald’s on Kietzk had a $20s-something price to start per hour.


56 posted on 05/26/2024 5:18:30 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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“The McDonald’s on Kietzk had a $20s-something price to start per hour.”

I see nothing above $17.50.


57 posted on 05/26/2024 5:33:31 PM PDT by TexasGator
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You are not local, so we can forgive you. :)


58 posted on 05/26/2024 5:36:02 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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“You are not local, so we can forgive you. :)”

I stayed at Holiday Inn in Reno once ...


59 posted on 05/26/2024 5:51:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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!!! :)


60 posted on 05/26/2024 5:56:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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