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Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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Is anyone else being redirected to a “congratulations you won” type website hosted on cloudfront.net? I’m using Safari, iPhone 6s, iOS 11.0.2, T Mobile, in NYC (only happens on LTE, doesn’t happen on wifi network)

Check your DNS provider. Google seems better (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4), OpenDNS possibly.

I used to get those every so often. Since I've been massively firewalling sketchy domains, not so much.

(About 33k entries, mostly based on uBlock and other blocklists.)

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

#102
post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tesla is notoriously fond of libel lawsuits; a local paper probably can't afford to fight one.

References?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Lawsuits_and_contr... is pretty well-filled-out.

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

#103

Is anyone else being redirected to a “congratulations you won” type website hosted on cloudfront.net? I’m using Safari, iPhone 6s, iOS 11.0.2, T Mobile, in NYC (only happens on LTE, doesn’t happen on wifi network)

Check your DNS provider. Google seems better (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4), OpenDNS possibly. I used to get those every so often. Since I've been massively firewalling sketchy domains, not so much. (About 33k entries, mostly based on uBlock and other blocklists.)

Any way to do this for LTE on a non jail broken phone?

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

#104

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The typical headline making layoff % at a Fortune500 type company is ~10%, fwiw.

Some of them just routinely fire the bottom 10% every year.

That feels like a good reason to fire 100% of whoever is in charge of interviewing/hiring.

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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post #91

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If the shoe fits.

Be bold. Make the claim, or don't make the claim. Half-heartedly making the claim is shoddy journalism.

This is Reuters REPORTING on the case. Not make a claim. Take of your fanboy glasses or go home.

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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> Though Tesla cited performance as the reason for the firings, the source told Reuters he was fired in spite of never having been given a bad review. Highly odd for a company that's just starting production of its highest-volume product ever. Is there something about Tesla beyond the hype we should know? If I were an investor, this news would have me quite concerned. You would think they can't hire fast enough.

I am an investor in Tesla. This doesn't worry me at all. Culling 1% isn't a financially bad choice and people are eager to work there. Replacing the employees should be pretty easy.

It sounds a bit rough but sometimes you need to let people go, for a variety of reasons. Long term, I'd only be concerned that it gave them a poor reputation because they didn't adequately warn people and that may turn away good applicants. But, that seems unlikely, so I'm not terribly concerned.

My investment in Tesla is worth about 10x what I invested, last time I checked. I don't check often as it is a long-term investment. I feel comfortable keeping my trust in Musk.

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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WARN Act: [A] US labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 calendar-day advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs of employees, as defined in the Act. In 2001, there were about 2,000 mass layoffs and plant closures which were subject to WARN advance notice requirements and which affected about 660,000 employee…

Your link indicates they aren't covered by the WARN act. It is fewer than 499 employees and less than 33% at a single facility.

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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References?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Lawsuits_and_contr... is pretty well-filled-out.

That lists one libel lawsuit by Tesla, against BBC and Top Gear. Claims dismissed. (And that's with the UK's quite liberal libel laws.)

There's one other case mentioned, but that involved a libel suit against Tesla. The characterisation of GP is not substantiated.

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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post #38

Paid Tesla actors are gaming the comments. Hacker News is influential. Votes can easily be gamed. Fake accounts are easy to make and hard to track. Noise is added to mix good info with misinformation to confuse and frustrate people sifting through comments trying to make sense of things. These people will make weaker arguments against Tesla's actions so those arguments can be easily discredited. People making stronge…

You posted this like 4 times. That's obviously not cool. Also you're breaking the HN guidelines which ask users not to make gratuitous accusations of astroturfing or shillage without evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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> pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted I hate sneakily-worded sentences like this. Also among them, were women, hetrosexuals, and probably one or two Vietnam veterans. Some believe they were targetted.

Tesla is notoriously fond of libel lawsuits; a local paper probably can't afford to fight one.

Um. I find references to a grand total of one libel lawsuit of note by Tesla, against BBC / Top Gear.

Claims rejected by the court.

That fails to meet the threshold of "notoriously fond" in my book.

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