[thaumaturgy]

Yeah, I worked for a while for an electronics component manufacturer that had a monthly hockey stick production schedule. For the first half of the month, I came in to work to wipe down my desk and bullshit with my coworkers. For the last week of every month, it was all-hands plus overtime. If the last day of the month happened to be a Monday, the production manager would try really hard to talk you into coming in for the weekend.

It was absurd. Sensible people hated that place, while a lot of other folks just accepted it as normal.

I suspect the conflicting accounts of life at Tesla work out similarly.