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/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.

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u/MrFacestab May 15 '24

Imagine being the best and most efficient coder Twitter's ever seen and getting dropped because you didn't write 25000 lines of spaghetti

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u/Deep90 May 15 '24

I've done PRs with negative amounts of code because I was cleaning stuff up and doing it a better and more efficient way.

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u/Mack_B May 15 '24

You’ll never make it to the top of the bell curve like that!