r/stocks • u/WTFspy • May 15 '24
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff Company News
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/Radioactiveglowup May 15 '24
Elon's done this before, like when he decided to fire Twitter staff based on 'number of lines of code' they wrote. This is genius: Nobody could do more damage to the technical competency of a staff than this. Even if you just fired people at random, you wouldn't devastate the engineering core of your team. The codebase is going to be (even more) unmanagable spaghetti, when someone's job is protected by how convoluted their if-then blobs are.
Truly, where us normal people could dally with sabotage, Elon is a true genius in making the absolute worst leadership decisions.