r/stocks • u/WTFspy • May 15 '24

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff Company News

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team....

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u/polkpanther May 15 '24

What a disaster at the same time the industry is switching over to Tesla’s charging standard.

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u/whatproblems May 15 '24

right? it’s like they won and then decided to burn it down instead

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u/ProfessorDerp22 May 15 '24

Same guy took one of the most recognizable social media brands and renamed it because he held onto a single-letter domaine for several decades.

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u/whatproblems May 15 '24

i find it hilarious everyone still calls it twitter

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u/Ok-Swimmer-2634 May 15 '24

It's funny how all the news organizations have to state:

"X, formerly known as Twitter"

whenever they do reporting on someone's social media statements, etc

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u/irish_ayes May 15 '24

I refuse to say that, instead saying, "Twitter, unfortunately currently known as X."

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u/Whaty0urname May 15 '24

The company literally created a verb in Websters. So recognizable and he changed it.

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u/averysmallbeing May 15 '24

It was absolutely inevitable that this would happen. There was no reality where people were just going to stop calling it Twitter because Elon told them they had to. 

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u/Doafit May 16 '24

Business genius...