Audio of heated Tesla staff meeting is revealed as 65,000 coffee mugs mysteriously go missing
Tesla's German plant is dealing with a rather bizarre crisis - tens of thousands of coffee cups have mysteriously vanished.
Now, it's one thing to have your favorite mug taken from the staff kitchen, but we're talking about a whopping 65,000 cups here.
In an audio recording of a recent meeting obtained by German publication Handelsblatt, plant manager Andre Thierig complained to staff about the thefts.
"I'm just going to give you a figure," Thierig said. "We've bought 65,000 coffee mugs since we started production here. 65,000!
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"Statistically speaking, each of you already has five Ikea coffee cups at home."
He then added: "I'm really tired of approving orders to buy more coffee cups," before threatening to remove all cutlery from break rooms.
However, the manager didn't quite get the response he was looking for, with employees laughing and applauding the seemingly trivial issue.
To make things even funnier, Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg has only been in operation for two years, meaning an average of 76 cups have been taken every single day.
The topic was a moment of light relief for employees in an otherwise heated meeting about safety and pay concerns.
The Berlin-based factory has been hit by a whole load of problems since before it even opened its doors.
When plans for the plant were announced, the local government received a massive 406 objections to its construction.
Residents even took to the streets, protesting the clearing of a large number of trees and the immense strain it would cause on water supplies.
In March of this year, the factory had to be shut down and evacuated after a suspected arson attack left the site - and 60,000 nearby residents - without power, and just one month later, masked protesters broke down a fence and stormed the grounds.
And, since the plant opened in March 2022 - eight months later than expected - it has been plagued by safety issues, with German magazine Stern reporting that the Tesla factory had three times more safety issues than a similar Audi plant.
Tesla rejected all claims that its safety procedures were inadequate.
In other Tesla news, despite models of the car company's Cybertruck costing from $81,895 all the way up to $101,985, one man recently bought the 'world’s cheapest Cybertruck' by purchasing one that had already been totalled.
YouTuber Kyle Wade documented the 18 hour journey he took to collect the busted vehicle.
He said: "I never planned on getting one of these, I mean they looked pretty cool, I had my opinions about them.
"They're obviously really expensive for what they are but, you know, this is just too cool of an opportunity to pass up boys."
He now has a pretty hefty job on his hands to get the car back to working order.