Seems like that's on purpose. Tony's responsible for giving the bad news so you don't hate RJ or Wassym
It's not the fact that Tony gives bad news that bothers me. It's the fact that he does a poor job of delivering communications. The content isn't the issue for me the packaging is. For example, a few weeks ago, he sent out an email telling people they would get an email updating them in a month. So, it was an update whose sole purpose was to tell people they would get an update.
Guess those people that have met him in person at some of Rivian's events must be AI-generated as well....?
In that particular instance, they are acknowledging they are behind on the expected update. What's better, doing that or having silence? Obviously you're not going to please everyone in either situation when there is a delay. Obviously everyone would rather know the actual timeline up front and Rivian might have 100% intended on giving it on those dates when originally announced, but maybe a supplier threw them a curveball and they'd rather not lead people to beleive they are getting their vehicles sooner than possible.
Don't do this. Don't be a crazy conspiracy guy, there are plenty of those already. Tony is at every Space opening and the Seattle folks here got to meet him and here him speak in person. It's funny how when you see/talk with a person in real life, your feelings soften about them.
I don't think I'm getting my point across very well. Tony is bad at writing and the way his stuff is presented is often more confusing than saying nothing and what I mean by him being AI generated is all his communication is AI generated. No doubt he is a real person he just cheats at his job by using chat GPT or grammarly to correct all his press releases but either doesn't proof them after or cannot determine when the suggested corrections change the meaning of his sentences and make them confusing and contradictory.
I can attest to this, I met him at an EA charger in Huntington Beach earlier this year. He was great to talk to, do not know very many corporate people that just approach people in the street and start chatting. He was asking a lot of questions and seemed very interested in the responses and experiences I had with CS and the vehicle.
They have different challenges. Wassym's scope can be limited and direct, it's also generally pretty limited in what needs to be communicated. Wassym is also almost exclusively talking about topics where he is a subject matter expert and he or his group is directly responsible for.
To give Tony some credit, his team doesn’t really own anything. He’s a messenger for everyone to customers. Wassym’s team owned this entirely, and I’m glad to see Wassym acknowledge the mistake and get on it asap
This is what I mean by Wassym's communication style being superior to Tony's. He is talking about screwing up an update today for some people. He explains what happened in an obvious way: the wrong version of the software was sent out. Then, he admits they made a mistake and are planning to fix it.
Yeah, it sucks that it happened, but this is the best possible way to handle a screw-up.
