Holy crap, what an immature child. I am so never buying a Tesla as long as he is CEO, and for probably at least one design cycle after that, given that I have issues with the cars themselves and not just what an asshole Musk is. (No instrument panel? No Android Auto/CarPlay, in 2024? WTF people?)

I simply cannot imagine working my ass off, then being told that the world’s richest man (give or take) has just doubled my workload (with no pay bump) because he child-like reflexively fired colleagues for shits and sexism and minor cost savings.

Yikes. Tesla’s board seems unlikely to stand up to Musk and if they don’t they’re going to be Fisker.

“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.”

I totally agree with your sentiment, but you got to remember these guys are probably working in CA and have like $5k/month rent or insane mortgages plus other bills. It can easily take 3-6 months to find a new job, too. I remember that Chargepoint also had layoffs this year, so it’s not like there is a huge demand…

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

Nothing asserts dominance more than lashing out at people only to immediately beg them for forgiveness.

Knowing it was a tantrum makes the most sense. It’s the, “I’m so tough I can kick myself in the nuts!” philosophy. That and I assumed he figured he could hire many of them back at lower pay.

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.’

“Stable genius”

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.

wow 30-40 whole miles of electric range?!?!?

A little dated since the Bronco is back, but...

Obviously that is a big part of it, but also implies that between that commute and working above normal hours he had zero time at home other than to sleep, so why bother going home? I assume that if he was working a typical 40 hour work week he would rather go home and have a few leisure hours there rather than in his…

Stories like this are what I point to when I hear (very certain) someones complaining that, “No one wants to work any more and no one takes any pride in/has loyalty for their employer.”

Agree with the last statement. It’s cool to love what you do for work… but don’t ever fall in love with your job. there’s a fine line between the two.

“I usually check my emails while on my autopilot commute to work”

Because he hasn’t run over any innocent people yet. Gotta give him a chance to really prove how dangerous he is, apparently. 

I am 100% down for this, also you KNOW he is a massive douche canoe by those dumb AF boots alone. Also how about we implement a law like they have in, I think Sweden, when it comes to speeding. If you are caught going double the speed limit the fine is, your car. Doesn’t matter if you own it, you rented it, you…