Maybe it was trying to get some damn sleep when it was struck.

Ban cruise ships. It’s the only way. 

Tesla is tanking, no surprise. It’s been years since Tesla was an innovator, their cars are stuck in the mid-2010s, and the Cybertruck is a poor-selling joke.

Unfortunately for Elon Musk, Tesla was his cookie jar for keeping Twitter afloat. You think 10% layoffs at Tesla are bad, wait until Elon can’t make his loan…

Excactly!

Too bad Trump hates EVs and will ban them.

In almost all other companies, Elon would likely be fired. He wouldn’t be allowed to have 5 jobs and not focus on the company.

Any company of that size - especially a publicly traded one - is always going to cut with an axe and not a scalpel. Some of that is convenience (hard to ID top and bottom performers amongst 140,000 people), a lot of it is bureaucracy, and an even bigger part is that nobody has enough personal skin or investment in the…

Yes, but dancing around saying “Elon is getting screwed!” isn’t a good look. It’s his workers that are, not him.

I hope you find something quickly and worked there long enough to have stock worth something.

You also discourage talented, experienced people from considering working for you as well.  Double-edged sword.

Yup. About 10 years back or so, the company I was working for got a new CEO. He announced his intention to “analyze operations and see what changes are needed” (fire people), and within 2 weeks, he announced that we were laying off 20% of the workforce, including me. His analysis was so thorough that they called me…

I think you got it with Vertically Integrated. Ford’s beancounters will outsource anything to save a nickel.

“As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth...”

Anytime a reduction in force happens to be an incredibly round number, like 10% of employees, it’s a great indicator that it’s not the result of careful analysis identifying redundant/unnecessary jobs to eliminate, but more of a knee jerk process of trying to keep investors happy. And whenever that’s the way you run…

As much as I am skeptical of all things Tesla because of all the well-documented issues (quality issues, insistence on downright dangerous human/machine interfaces like FSD, Autopilot, and of course burying all kinds of controls in a touch screen, design for cheap manufacturing rather than low total cost of ownership…

I mean, it was a tough choice, I’m sure. “Should we try to address the fact that our CEO is a neo-Nazi who’s actively turning off potential buyers and who gets paid eleventy billion dollars, or should we just lay off a bunch of people from the rank and file to make shareholders happy for 10 minutes?” That’s an easy…

I wish you the best of luck finding a new position not working for that douchebag. 

Shame we can’t take a few percent of what he spent on Twitter because of his stupid ego and let these people keep their jobs. 

Ouch. Hope you find something better real soon

yup, woke up to get ready for work this morning to a email from elon saying I was let go, fun