"Given that Tesla has never made an annual profit in the almost 15 years since we have existed, profit is obviously not what motivates us."
Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
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Re: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
#22I'm sure this is at least partly tied-in to their ongoing, illegal efforts to crush labor organizing at their plants. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-nlrb/worker-testifi...
i don't mean to make this political, but if unionization costs jobs, why does the left consider that a victory?
Re: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
#23Tesla and SpaceX are businesses and I never understood the public fandom behind them and Elon Musk. 3,500+ people losing their jobs is pretty significant for a leader who touts altruism as one of his top motivators.
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#24Musk tweeted out the layoff email he sent:
Re: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
#25Sorry to hear it, they seem to be having a lot of troubles lately.
Re: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
#26Could have saved these jobs by laying off the idiot CEO instead.
His CEO pay is $37k/year.
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#27I'm sure this is at least partly tied-in to their ongoing, illegal efforts to crush labor organizing at their plants. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-nlrb/worker-testifi...
How many tech workers would like their terms of employment, including compensation, to be decided by negotiations between a union and a company?
Can you imagine pay, promotion, and assignment by seniority instead of skill? Doesn't sound very appealing to me.
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#28Claims no production staff were affected. Don't know the employee breakdown but imagine production is a huge portion of it. Hard to believe entire other divisions weren't completely eliminated if production not touched.
Given they admitted to over-relying on automation, I doubt they'd be cutting production staff now. It's not difficult to find 9% of the workforce in other departments: sales, marketing, operations, engineering, etc.
I think most companies would have a hard time finding 3,500 people to fire and not have it effect anything. Especially ones that describe themselves as a "growth company".
Re: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
#29Tesla and SpaceX are businesses and I never understood the public fandom behind them and Elon Musk. 3,500+ people losing their jobs is pretty significant for a leader who touts altruism as one of his top motivators.
You are not going to count all the jobs he created in the first place, and the years of gainful employment those 3500 people had? It’s just all negative in your estimation?
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#30I wonder if some of this is finalizing the digestion of solar city.
How many accountants, tech, and office workers did the combine company have that were redundant? Have there been layoffs from the merger (if there were I missed them) - I'm curious to see if this is the end result of that combination.