The latest Tesla (un)Layoff News!

[thewayne]

ROFLMAO! The Muskbrat is going to try to hire back his Supercharger team!

GEE, PERHAPS FIRING ALL OF THEM WAS A BAD IDEA! WHOULD'A THUNK IT!

He's also "committed" (and should be!) half a billion dollars to expanding the Supercharger network.

A lot of the reason for sacking the entire division came from him getting PO'd at the division manager, Rebecca Tinucci, not sacking enough division people. So he fired Tinucci and the entire division.

My question is: how many will be willing to come back under such a mercurial CEO, and how much of a raise will they demand for being treated so capriciously?

A couple of things the article discusses that I did not know is that in '19 he decided to close ALL retail locations to pay for a cheaper Model 3. When it turned out he was going to get the crap sued out of him for breaking so many retail leases, he reversed that decision. Also, apparently plans are going into effect for super-Supercharger stations for charging Porsches and Audis which require more voltage for their batteries.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/

Comments

[disneydream06]

I know we all need jobs, but it would be a cold day in hell before I would go back to work for a person that went on a hissy fit and fired my whole division. :o

He's also "committed" (and should be!)
AMEN to that. :o
Hugs, Jon

[armiphlage]

Same with companies that he wants to partner with. Companies will charge a premium for any contract they sign, on the assumption it'll be cancelled early. Companies will ask for more money up-front for any products or services, on the assumption there might not be follow-on business.

[disneydream06]

He is such a scumbag. :o :o :o

[arlie]

I once did something similar.

I was working as a contractor, through a body shop, for a smallish tech company. I was also in the US on a visa that was only valid as long as I was employed - and in the same position at that.

The tech company got itself bought by a bigger one. Before the deal took effect, they laid off all their contractors without warning just before Christmas. All were recalled the following January. This rehire was somewhat hinted at in December by the tech company neglecting to delete contractor accounts or even suspend our remote access. It was soon rumored that the price contracted was based on revenue-per-employee, including contractors, computed as total-revenue-for-the-year divided by number of employees and contractors on the payroll December 31.

The body shop didn't have the sense - or common decency - to keep me officially on their staff, but with no working hours. Instead, they processed a termination. So that made my visa technically no longer valid. Fortunately no one told the INS, so in practice getting rehired didn't require me to get a new visa.

At any rate, I started job hunting as soon as potential employers got back to work after their holiday break, and kept at it after being rehired. Naturally, I did not inform either the tech company or the body shop of this, though I'd have thought they'd have expected most of the affected contractors to do this. I also swore off working as a contract employee anywhere I didn't have permanent residence.

The tech company began converting contractors to permanent staff, probably immediately on the rehire. But they didn't bring on everyone at once, or tell anyone how many they planned to bring on. Presumably when they got around to a particular individual, that individual learned they'd have this opportunity. By the time I had an acceptable job offer in hand, they still hadn't informed me they wanted me to become their employee. (Perhaps they expected me to ask them if I was interested?)

When I gave notice, both my immediate manager at the tech company and my immediate contract at the body shop acted surprised and upset. The former told me they would have hired me full time - but did NOT make a full counter-offer. (OTOH, it didn't occur to em to ask for one.) The body shop guy wondered why I hadn't asked him to find me a contract with a different company in their stable.

I got a new visa for the new job, moved to where it was located, and never looked back. Later I encountered some of my old coworkers, who'd been somewhat bounced between companies as a set.

[thewayne]

I read Quora, and it's amazing how sucky company management can be with firing/hiring people.  Just stunning.  And you're a perfect example of how people get mistreated.  And then they're all shocked that you left.  "But we're a family!"  "No, we're not.  You're a crappy employer, and nothing beyond that."

[disneydream06]

WOW... What a mess.
I don't blame you in the least for not going back to that company. :o

[silveradept]

I certainly hope that everyone who comes back to this gets at the least a raise and protection against being mercurially fired again. And that Musk finds someone to run that division who will tell him what a fool he is regularly as part of the contract, so that that person can't be fired for saying so.