scandalous stuff sometimes you know like i did see scenes of intimacy but not nudity said another and there was just definitely a lot of stuff that like i wouldnt want anybody to see about my life as an example this person recalled seeing embarrassing objects such as certain pieces of laundry certain sexual wellness items and just private scenes of life that we really were privy to because the car was chargingmemes in the san mateo office tesla staffed its san mateo office with mostly young workers in their 20s and early 30s who brought with them a culture that prized entertaining memes and viral online content former staffers described a freewheeling atmosphere in chat rooms with workers exchanging jokes about images they viewed while labeling according to several exemployees some labelers shared screenshots sometimes marked up using adobe photoshop in private group chats on mattermost teslas internal messaging system there they would attract responses from other workers and managers participants would also add their own markedup images jokes or emojis to keep the conversation going some of the emojis were customcreated to reference office inside jokes several exemployees said one former labeler described sharing images as a way to break the monotony another described how the sharing won admiration from peers if you saw something cool that would get a reaction you post it right and then later on break people would come up to you and say oh i saw what you posted that was funny said this former labeler people who got promoted to lead positions shared a lot of these funny items and gained notoriety for being funny some of the shared content resembled memes on the internet there were dogs interesting cars and clips of people recorded by tesla cameras tripping and falling there was also disturbing content such as someone being dragged into a car seemingly against their will said one exemployee video clips of crashes involving teslas were also sometimes shared in private chats on mattermost several former employees said those included examples of people driving badly or collisions involving people struck while riding bikes such as the one with the child or a motorcycle some data labelers would rewind such clips and play them in slow motion at times tesla managers would crack down on inappropriate sharing of images on public mattermost channels since they claimed the practice violated company policy still screenshots and memes based on them continued to circulate through private chats on the platform several exemployees said workers shared them oneonone or in small groups as recently as the middle of last year one of the perks of working for tesla as a data labeler in san mateo was the chance to win a prize use of a company car for a day or two according to two former employees but some of the lucky winners became paranoid when driving the electric cars knowing how much data those vehicles are capable of collecting definitely