It's time to play - WHAT TESLA DIVISION GETS AXED THIS WEEK! (and more Tesla stupidity)

[thewayne]

Everybody's favorite game show!

In previous weeks we've seen the Supercharger division shown the door, the new car design group booted, lots of people pink-slipped.

And now?

HUMAN RESOURCES!

EVEN MORE ENGINEERS!

And.... drum roll please....

SERVICE ADVISORS!

So let's see. There have already been reports of service appointments being cancelled for CyberTrucks, and this is BEFORE the number of service advisors were reduced. And now everyone who really knew the Supercharger network is gone, but that's last weeks news, that's going to start crumbling as the techs who service that start getting overstretched and quit. Oh, wait. What techs? Engineers are going away, which probably includes some of those techs. And since we've sacked the HR department, apparently there's absolutely no plans to replenish any of these slots being eliminated. The PR department went away ages ago because there wasn't much of a need to promote Tesla cars, reporters have frequently groused that there was no way to get additional information from the company when 'events' happen. Well, this is one heck of a series of events!

When you lay off X% of people, there are Federal labor laws that come into effect. They're probably well over that number. Things like 60 days notice. Unemployment compensation. Insurance bridges. Trivial things that the super rich don't really bother with.

Lawsuits are going to be piled pretty deep and pretty soon. You can't go around slashing people from a big company like this. When the Big Three automakers announce layoffs, they announce them and then begin working with the unions to comply with the law to do them properly. I guess a certain person thinks that since he hasn't let his workforce unionize that he doesn't have to do anything regarding government law.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/


So, the additional stupidity.

I'm not going to link the article, but the stupidity is truly monumental. It's on the Gizmodo site if you want to look for it. And it involves a CyberTruck.

This idiot - and the idiocy is on both sides, the truck owner and on Tesla - films a video of the frunk (front trunk) closing on a stick and breaking it. Commenters on the video say he did it wrong and it wouldn't break a finger.

So he redoes the video.

And it breaks his finger.

Now here's Tesla's idiocy, aside from it not having safety features to prevent a broken appendage.

If the frunk lid is closing and encounters resistance, most people would think that the sensible programming choice would be that the sensor and computer would say 'I have encountered unexpected resistance and something is preventing me from closing properly! I should reverse and open the frunk lid!'. Nope. It thinks there is a big bag/piece of luggage, and it INCREASES FORCE.

I have no words.

Let's get a drunk person half-in there and see if it'll cut them in half. That'll get some clicks.

Yay social media wannabe influencers!

Comments

[armiphlage]

When just doing NOTHING is less harmful to your company than doing what you're actively doing, you'd be better off spending the day sleeping in.

[thewayne]

Ah-yup.  That does seem to sum it up.  Some people are speculating that a drug-induced psychosis may be the cause of some of this, that he's gone into massive overreaction to their stock underperforming and flailing about, trying to find a solution.  I don't think gutting the company is such a solution.

[motodraconis]

I think I recently read that Tesla had received a fuck of a lot of subsidies, so its "success" was based on a huge input of external money, both subsidies to produce the cars and subsidies to buy them. I'm guessing it is no longer being propped up.

[thewayne]

Yeah, one was a $12.7 million from the U.S. gov't for the Supercharger network to build it out further.  It'll be interesting to see if the Feds want that money back, now that he's gutted that team.  I don't know if Tesla per se has received any other subsidies, but both Starlink and SpaceX are heavily funded by subsidies, and it's guaranteed that the Feds are looking very seriously at those orgs with the way that the Muskbrat has been behaving re Tesla.

The subsidies on purchasing their cars are complicated. Too many variables for me to talk about, but the subsidies do decline over time. There may also be some state subsidies involved, also. Newer EV makers and models get the most subsidies, but being new cars and makers, also have the most bugs to work out!

[disneydream06]

It's the story that just keeps on giving. :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

It is pretty amazing, isn't it?

[disneydream06]

Pretty soon there won't be any company left. :o
I say only half joking. :o :o :o

[silveradept]

Someone designed his genital substitute vehicle to avoid having safety features, it seems, and at that point, I would think that the appropriate regulatory body would get involved. Assuming that there isn't a lawsuit from someone who is injured by the decision to add more force rather than do the sensible safety thing.

Of course, with the amount of layoffs happening at that company, there may not be any assets available for someone to recover in a suit.

[thewayne]

In the latest latest Tesla news, I believe it was yesterday they pulled all jobs available posts.  The number went from like 1,400 to THREE.  That'll dry up their inventory surplus! (if anyone were still buying them)