Tesla Statement 6/11/18
“Mr. Ramirez was employed by Tesla for less than four months after joining
from SolarCity, and during his short time at Tesla, it was his job to identify
ways to enhance our safety program, and he certainly was not terminated for
doing so. That would make no sense. Mr. Ramirez was terminated because
after an extensive investigation, it was clear that he had engaged over and
over again in harassing workplace behavior and used extremely inappropriate
language that violated any reasonable standard. We conducted our
investigation after we received an onslaught of complaints about Mr.
Ramirez’s behavior, with nearly a dozen different employees stating that he
engaged in clear bullying, sought to intimidate his colleagues, and repeatedly
made inappropriate comments about women. Importantly, this was not a
case of he said/she said. There were literally almost a dozen people who
came forward to complain about Mr. Ramirez – notably, from a wide variety of
different locations and departments within the company, some of whom were
Mr. Ramirez’s direct reports and others who were his peers in other
departments. Among the evidence that was provided:
 One employee said that Mr. Ramirez commented on a fellow employee
by saying ‘she's got some big old [expletive].’ This obviously made the
employee very uncomfortable.
 One of Mr. Ramirez’s direct reports said that he made inappropriate
comments towards women, calling them names like ‘hun’, and that he
regularly tried to intimidate others.
 Another employee told her manager that because of the abrasive
language that Mr. Ramirez repeatedly used against her, she never wanted
to interact with him again.
 One of Mr. Ramirez’s direct reports said that he regularly mistreated
his team, and that she felt he bullied team members and others with
abusive remarks.
 Multiple employees said that they were fearful of coming forward
because they had witnessed Mr. Ramirez engage in intimidation and they
were scared of being retaliated against by him.
Bullying and harassment have no place at Tesla.”