One of my old spots, the founding CEO stepped down (after taking a ~$100k seed to an 8 figure acquisition in under 10 years) and the new CEO brought on by the new owners slashed like 50% of the engineering team - myself included. (Got a killer severance and had another gig before my WARN days were up; so I was getting…

He reminds me of a company I worked for, revenue was down so they fired the entire sales team. Yes they were paid a lot but they brought in 60% of our revenue, the place was sold about six months later. 

And Musk views everyone as beneath him.

The true(er*) measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good - Samuel Johnson (I think)

“According to two former employees, Tesla’s energy division, which sells solar systems and battery storage were already struggling to handle their workload before they were forced to take on the Supercharger team’s workload.”

Might go back but I would be 100% ghosting and job hunting.

The truest assessment of character is how someone treats people he views as beneath him.

Maybe Sandy Munro can explain how this is just an example of Musk playing four dimensional chess. Or some such garbage.

It was simply Musk getting mad at someone for pushing back on what he was asking for and punishing the entire team as part of his tantrum.

There’ no fucking way I would go back to a company that fired me on the whims of a child. This is the kind of business strategy you get from a guy whose reaction to opposition is ‘Go fuck yourself’, or as he put stupidly put it, ‘G. F. Y.’

I know it sounds like some of that department has been rehired, but I really hope most of them landed elsewhere and told that temper tantrum prone toddler to kick rocks.

There are videos that show other brands working well with similar placement though.  You could argue that its most important in the area he tested as well.

Toyota sure seems to have followed the right path. Making the Camry hybrid only was also a damn good move. Fact of the matter is, until pricing, range, and charging ubiquity are the norm, electric only will be a hard sell for many 

They bowed to public pressure. But it was messed up.

Toyota held off and decided to stick with hybrid models and slowed its rollout of battery-powered cars.

4th Gear:

Can you believe Toyota fired the CEO for this stance on EVs

What horrible people for wanting a comfortable inexpensive car that will reliably do what they need it to with no fuss, and how dare they not care too much about minor cosmetic blemishes. /s

A couple things about me as a Camry Owner.

As a Camry owner I can 100% confirm this and fit that description completely.