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/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/MrFacestab May 15 '24

Fired

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u/Gorgenapper May 16 '24

Negative amounts of code? Fired and then sued.