mI/zms A's chtunca Mail . sum on sprang Cyrus Farlvar Story on SolarCity Kamran Mumtaz-- Tue, Jul 31, 2013 at 9 21 AM To Cyrus Farivar Hi Cyrus, I saw that your story posted this morning on SolarCity. Please see below for a statement you can attribute to a Tesla spokesperson, and have also included two attachments for your reference that speak to the results of our investigation and were also shared with the employees. I'd appreciate it it you could meaningfully incorporate our response into the story. For example, the piece says: "Staples reported th insults and the questionable corporate practices to various who seemingly took no action As you can tell from the attached documents, these claims were fully investigated and responded to, not ignored. Similarly the headline says: "We were tired after reporting millions in take sales", As noted below, the claim about false sales records was investigated and found to be inaccurate. It you could please update the piece accordingly, that would be great. Many thanks. Statement attributable to 8 Tesla spokesperson: "The plaintifls' roles were eliminated last year when, as part of Tesla's integration with SolarCity, we decided to close our door-to-door sales channel for energy products -- a decision that was announced publicly and covered extensively in the media -- and the suggestion that they were eliminated for any other reason is false. During his time at SolarCity, Mr. Staples never once raised concerns about discrimination or harassment over his sexual orientation. He and Ms. White did make claims about other issues, and these claims were fully investigated and responded to, not ignored. The results of the investigations, which were shared with the employees, are attached and show the following: Mr. Staples's claim about false sales records was investigated and lound to be inaccurate, We confirmed there was in fact a valid contract signed by the customer. To be clear, we have seen absolutely nothing that suggests there were "lake potential sales accounts" as claimed in the lawsuit. Ms. White's claim that she was not allowed to properly record overtime was unsubstantiated, After examining the timecards of Ms. White and other applicable employees, confirmed they were paid properly and invited her to submit a list of unpaid hours if she disagreed, so could review it and confirm proper payment. She never identified any hours for which she was not paid. Imps mm googlc 594656710 .c 1/2 vol/2mg mg chtunca Mail . sum on sprang HR found no evidence to substantiate Mr. Staples' claim that he was improperly denied business cards, laptop bags or access to the oflice printer. Mr. Staples and a coworker were found to have each sent inappropriate text messages to the other. Notably, the photo that Mr. Staples complained about was from a diflerent coworkers' Facebook public profile, that coworker stated that she had no issue with it, and Mr. Staples similarly told us that at the time it was sent to him, he had no issue with it either. Flather, he raised his concern only alter he had a falling out with the coworker who sent it to him, as they previously had been close personal friends. The investigation also revealed that Mr. Staples sent numerous sexually suggestive texts of his own to this same coworker, including panially nude picture of another individual and a sexual video involving another employee. SolarCity provided formal warnings to all involved that this was not acceptable. Mr. Staples never claimed that his supervisor engaged in sexual orientation harassment of any kind. Claims were made that both Mr. Staples and the supervisor were rude toward one another, but nothing about sexual orientation or the like was ever alleged. Tesla is absolutely against any form of discrimination, harassment, or unfair treatment of any kind by or against anyone, and we take any concerns raised by employees very seriously, as we did here, In this case, the facts simply don't support the plaintiffs' story," Kamran Mumtaz Tesla Global Communications 2 attachments Flnal Staples Concluslon 490K VIEW as HTML Scan and download Flnal White Invesllgallon Concluslnn Lott".pr 396K VIEW as HTML Scan and download Imps 5%5h7lorc