I went to the supercharger at my local Service Plus location at lunch and there was no sales staff there. When I asked the service guy about it he said that all of the sales people were let go. Anyone else notice this at their location?
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Tesla sales staff layoffs?
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I suspect that IF gallery employees were let go, it had to do with direct sales not being allowed in Texas. I wouldn't extrapolate that to mean 'Tesla sales staff layoffs' in general.
There's reddit thread about sales layoff in Atlanta where sales are permitted I believe, so it might be a bigger trend than that.
Sales cuts at Tesla in Atlanta • r/teslamotors
It just seems to be Service Plus locations, the regular gallery store in the area didn't seem effected.
Is "a Service Plus location" a Texas thing? I don't understand what that is.
I have visited a few dozen Supercharger locations in the western USA and almost none of them have Tesla staff present. Exceptions I can think of off the top of my head are places like Rocklin CA, Seaside CA, and Buena Park CA (which are Tesla showrooms/service centers).
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The location is a service center with a showroom. The fact that there are superchargers there is irrelevant to this discussion. (I think they put superchargers there because they had the parking space and the power, and didn't have any other Houston area superchargerd at the time-- it's not a good location, being in an industrial park.)
Okay. I had never heard the term "Service Plus" to describe a Tesla Service Center and Showroom. I am not aware that is a term Tesla uses. Maybe they do. But new to me.
So your original post appears to say that at this Tesla location, which has a showroom, there are no longer any Tesla sales staff. Maybe that is because Tesla cannot sell in Texas and they decided it wasn't worth paying sales staff in a state they can't sell in. But Texans still buy Teslas out of state and bring them in and register them so Service Centers and Superchargers are needed.
Does that make sense to you?
So your original post appears to say that at this Tesla location, which has a showroom, there are no longer any Tesla sales staff. Maybe that is because Tesla cannot sell in Texas and they decided it wasn't worth paying sales staff in a state they can't sell in. But Texans still buy Teslas out of state and bring them in and register them so Service Centers and Superchargers are needed.
Does that make sense to you?
No. The "sales" staff in Texas are called product specialists and do everything sales staff do in other states except for the actual sale. This includes showing the car, explaining about charging, the various options, etc., and taking prospective buyers on test drives. Other then calling the Tesla locations "galleries" rather than "stores" and having a few hoops to jump through to have the actual sale technically take place in another state there is little difference from Tesla locations elsewhere.
This appears to shift away from physical sales centers as model 3s are ramping up?
Effective immediately many Tesla stores will be permanently closed • r/teslamotors
Effective immediately many Tesla stores will be permanently closed • r/teslamotors
Well I guess my hunch was right. Of course until it's sanctioned by Elon's Velvet Jacket nobody takes it seriously. Word is in spite of that PR spin, many staff and middle managers were let go and Tesla basically pushed them out onto the ice floe; which was unrelated to a "poor performing" location or not. Apparently there's a lot of bad blood between the Burberry new wave and "old Tesla" so I guess this was a mini-coup.
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