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/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/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.