Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs • Hacker News Board

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by sitkack » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:00 PM UTC

johannes1234321 wrote: post #143

sitkack wrote: post #96

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And since the Teslas are self driving, they can just roam the public roads while people work, an endless TS (Tesla Stream) cycling between two superchargers.

You mean they can ride through the office building, pass the managers desk, who can check the work.

Have a Manager Booth halfway between the two charging stations for checkins, in addition to video calls. Biobreaks (exercise, waste removal, nutrition ingestion) can happen during charging if the Teslas remain unmodified.

I just realized that the Tesla could eject the worker a couple miles before the charging station, calculating the workout and charge duration so that the employee would have to run at the correct rate to retrieve their car before it was done charging. The vehicle could self clean while empty on the way to the charging station.

I can't think of any downsides to this.

Exciting times for the future of work!

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:01 PM UTC

manuelabeledo wrote: post #127

jes wrote: post #85

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Can you say more? Musk is the world’s wealthiest individual. I’m having trouble seeing see how being bad at making predictions results in that outcome.

> Musk is the world’s wealthiest individual. On paper. He bet big on EVs, which the market rewarded. Same happened with Microsoft and computers maybe thirty years ago, main difference being that Tesla is not holding a semi monopoly, and competitors are catching up quickly.

>and competitors are catching up quickly.

How do you measure that? All sales figures show the contrary.

Also, two days ago https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/vw-ceo-sa...

>Volkswagen AG said Tesla Inc. is moving twice as quickly as the rest of the industry that needs to pick up the pace in the shift to making electric vehicles packed with software.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by moonchrome » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:01 PM UTC

ericbarrett wrote: post #16

A couple of days ago somebody posted this Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/v2lpdw/e... "Tesla expanded massively during Covid, as of now half of the dev team(including me) don’t have parking space or desk. It’s physically impossible for everyone to return to office. "Should I ignore the email, or should I drive to the office and sit under the stairs?" Commenters' general feeling was…

>half of the dev team(including me) don’t have parking space

Isn't your Tesla supposed to be robotaxi, driving around autonomously while you work ? Why do you need parking spaces ?

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by turzmo » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

jes wrote: post #85

raphaelj wrote: post #20

> Elon Musk feels ‘super bad’ about economy Considering how bad Elon is at making predictions, this is actually great news.

Can you say more? Musk is the world’s wealthiest individual. I’m having trouble seeing see how being bad at making predictions results in that outcome.

Not agreeing or disagree that Elon is bad at predictions (do predictions even matter from somebody as unstable and fickle as Elon?) but there are plenty of people who have made one or two good bets and then got nothing else right.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by ctvo » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

almost_usual wrote: post #144

say_it_as_it_is wrote: post #122

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Obviously, people who value their jobs show up earlier to claim a parking space and a desk. Coffee is for closers.

Might as well live at work.

points at head can't lose your desk to someone else if you never leave it.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by Saint_Genet » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

manuelabeledo wrote: post #137

adverbly wrote: post #23

Let me get this straight: "Work 80 hr weeks! Be just like me!" Musk: becomes worlds richest person Employees: laid off What planet do you live on where you see this as a sustainable, world-improving system for the world and for compensation? Anyone that works 50 hr weeks for this dude is out of their mind.

I yet have to see a wealthy individual working 80h/week, in an environment as physically and mentally demanding as their employees. Musk is not exception.

Given how terminally online and meme-aware he is, there is no way he doesn't spend a significant part of his waking day just browsing shitposts.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by raisedbyninjas » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #46

that_guy_iain wrote: post #36

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When people say "no space in the building to allocate a desk” they mean "No space to neatly put a desk." Companies have often shown repeatedly they can force desks into rooms when needed. Anyways, they can and will buy office space to put the desks when needed.

Lol. I can confirm that a motivated company can Tetris a lot more desks into a room than you’d expect. My first job… ah, memories.

LAN parties have been fitting a surprising number of people onto 8' folding tables for decades.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by raphaelj » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #162

manuelabeledo wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Musk is the world’s wealthiest individual. On paper. He bet big on EVs, which the market rewarded. Same happened with Microsoft and computers maybe thirty years ago, main difference being that Tesla is not holding a semi monopoly, and competitors are catching up quickly.

>and competitors are catching up quickly. How do you measure that? All sales figures show the contrary. Also, two days ago https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/vw-ceo-sa... >Volkswagen AG said Tesla Inc. is moving twice as quickly as the rest of the industry that needs to pick up the pace in the shift to making electric vehicles packed with software.

Tesla sales growth, but slower than the EV market. Tesla is thus loosing market share (in EV) while increasing revenue.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by erikpukinskis » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

studmuffin650 wrote: post #111

Interested to see this go down in parallel with Elon's "everyone must be in office decree". I have multiple friends that work at Tesla and at least one of them has it in their work contract to allow remote work for at least a year (they started 2 weeks ago). Not sure how his decree will work out (though I have only heard about the employment contract, not actually seen it).

Unless your friend lives in Montana, their employment is “at-will”. Which means at any time Tesla can change their mind on any aspect of the agreement and offer you a choice between a new contract or the door.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by dubswithus » Fri, Jun 03, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

selfportrait wrote: post #138

alkonaut wrote: post #15

> The message, sent on Thursday and titled “pause all hiring worldwide”, came two days after the billionaire told staff to return to the workplace or leave So people who claimed less than 24h ago it was at lest partially a way of creating cheap layoffs, were proven right pretty swiftly.

This is par for the course. Every time there is big news expected, Elon’s antics are elevated and a coordinated distraction by way of a tweet is posted. See the “political attacks on me” tweet as an example, which coincidentally was posted the day prior to his sexual assault allegations. The man has bought Twitter for the purposes of distracting and manipulating the public.

> which coincidentally was posted the day prior to his sexual assault allegations.

Business insider gave him a heads up because they asked him for comment before publishing the story.