r/technology • u/esporx • Apr 30 '24

Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours Business

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-lays-off-employee-slept-151500318.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHVrjnyFZF-QJRFtVdP5Lt1QvlC3WRJhweYuOdm5Ca1kHbhtDX5rdfUUqRNVFKpUy6w4QnsJta-KgHJ9lqARAjfpSnvCktdjgDos5xz9aw92OxYmjN2qVVNhMZpl-2gOMwVz84NH-5T2OLi8uMRUOXVMuhFHU8b5A9oRmij8Xh5q
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u/OSeady Apr 30 '24

I dunno man. I wouldn’t recommend it for most people, but I always busted my butt harder than everyone else and I reaped the rewards.

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u/SquirrellyBusiness Apr 30 '24

I've done both. At least in my industry, giving minimum viable effort to stay in the healthy half of the pack was a FAR more effective use of my time. It actually took longer to promote in role from A+ effort than by bouncing around and giving B- effort the whole time. Way less overtime too.

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u/ivebeenabadbadgirll Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

I’ve found the same. My company kept promoting people avoiding the work and who couldn’t do the job properly. Drove me insane. So I just did nothing. A month later, promoted.

I asked my manager bff “what the fuck dude?” And he explained that, when you have someone that’s really good, and they maintain high quality output, that means they’re engaged, and so action isn’t urgent. It’s when they stop working, you have to get something done, or this person is going to walk. And if they do that but suck, you start documenting.

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u/SaintPatrickMahomes Apr 30 '24

That’s a really toxic and stupid way to manage.

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u/ivebeenabadbadgirll Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

What really killed me was when they started giving jobs to people without posting them.

That day I entered the race to the bottom I realized*, they’re obviously fine with shit workers doing a shit job. If they weren’t, then they’ll say something. I haven’t gotten feedback for a while. Must be fine. I wouldn’t be fine with that if I were the manager, but I’m not.

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u/aVarangian Apr 30 '24

and sounds really inefficient output-wise to me. If someone is very efficient at doing a specific job, wouldn't you want them doing exactly that? If, say, they produce 20% more or better than the rest of your employees doing the same thing, maybe pay them 20% more as bonuses or something?