Nope, he posts a lot of US political drivel and other rubbish I've no interest in.
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Supercharger team sacked?
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Very "don't speculate on the ways of a misunderstood genius" this. A classic of the genre, even.
mspohr
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It's obvious to anybody that he had a tantrum. Don't need to be a CEO.
He suffers from billionaires delusion... I am so rich that I must be perfect.
12Pack
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FWIW American settled in the UK here - executive of a multinational semiconductor company. Lots of cyclical redundancies in my business unfortunately. Have experience with this in 5 countries! In the US it’s not a legal requirement as such but you have to have enough to make sure you are not sued on grounds like seniority, performance history, disability or sexism etc. So while Musk could fire away - this risk is that Tesla is sued by those impacted. If he was indeed stating no more requirement of the team due to business conditions- no issue.I was always under the impression that US companies could fire without justification, so I doubt they'd have to go through a selection process. (Where are the American posters when you need them?)
When I worked for an American company they were always grappling with UK and European employment laws. I suspect that Tesla are still consulting with the German Workers Councils and the Spanish are still on siesta so haven't heard the news yet
In Germany and Holland, e.g., you would have to get approval of Workers Councils. But you still could do it on the grounds of business conditions, but would require significant outlay for the negotiated settlement.
mspohr
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You just reminded me that my Dutch colleagues used to just sack people, as paying the compensation when they lost the (Dutch equivalent of) Industrial Tribunal it was a lot less hassle/cost than trying to build a performance case for someone.
My employer had to do the group consultation as getting rid of enough people. In that process they have to say “No decisions have been made yet” however you know they have and they made it obvious as they combined my job with another and gave it to someone else. I went through the whole consultation process with the whole “No decisions have been made yet” but also had no work to do as they’d replaced my role already.
I didn’t mind, extra paid holiday to have a job you aren’t expected to do anything at and no one minds
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them
The rehirings have begun... first an executive and then he'll probably get who he can back to rebuild the house Musk burnt down.
The rehirings have begun... first an executive and then he'll probably get who he can back to rebuild the house Musk burnt down.
But he won't have the exec who didn't want to cut the headcount. And I suspect, a more compliant team
Indeed but for someone apparently playing 4D chess he didn’t realise he only needed to fire the SVP at the top to get rid of her…
He’s backtracking. He won’t fully of course, it’ll still be a smaller team than it was before but I think public opinion and shareholder pressure have likely pushed him to this.
It was undoubtedly a petulant boardroom spat but it may have worked out for him. Remember the SVP will set the culture in her organisation and if the SuC team think they are indispensable then that culture needs a reset too.
The shareholders may have pushed him into backtracking, but they also pushed him into making swingeing cuts in the first place. Perhaps they underestimated how megalomaniacs tend to behave
The shareholders may have pushed him into backtracking, but they also pushed him into making swingeing cuts in the first place. Perhaps they underestimated how megalomaniacs tend to behave
mspohr
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I don't believe an erratic megalomaniac is fit to lead TeslaIt was undoubtedly a petulant boardroom spat but it may have worked out for him. Remember the SVP will set the culture in her organisation and if the SuC team think they are indispensable then that culture needs a reset too.
The shareholders may have pushed him into backtracking, but they also pushed him into making swingeing cuts in the first place. Perhaps they underestimated how megalomaniacs tend to behave
mspohr
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Jason71
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That's one of the the problems with erratic megalomanics they are not big on a) asking permission or b) caring what you think
Any publicly traded company is a slave to it's shareholders (the large institutional ones) and the numbers on a quarterly spreadsheet will often dictate a companies actions, even if it makes no sense to the rest of us.
mspohr
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Which shareholders were calling for dismantling of the entire Supercharger division?
It must be exhausting simping for Elon MuskDude, you can't follow a simple sentence, I doubt we can explain capitalism to you
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them
Last week the CEO said Tesla will spend $500 million expanding the charger network.
arstechnica.com
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