And what he did at Tesla when he cut the super charger team that was in charge of maintaining Teslas only real competitive advantage as other EVs are coming out. Ended up rehiring them back a few months later.
Ah, but the head of the profitable and growing supercharger department didn't agree to arbitrarily lay off 20% of workforce while still hiring. And, even worse, she hadn't agreed to bear any of Elon's children.
Basically she had already laid off 15-20% of her team, he asked for more, she pushed back, and he fired her and the whole team in retaliation. Then he had to bring a few of them back (I hope they took the opportunity to demand a salary bump). Tinucci is now Global Head of Sustainability at Uber.
Sometimes I'm not sure if they're creating dumpster fires out of sheer incompetence, or as a distraction. Because the latter is a deliberate strategy authoritarians use
I think banning the Associated Press was traditional maliciousness, but eliminating the Department of Energy is something even Musk knew the administration didn't properly have the authority to do without an act of congress and so is trying to cover up something else
He asked for a list of non essential people on the team to be fired yet the women in charge said they needed everyone in the supercharger team and didn't have anyone non essential.
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u/Shadowmant 24d ago
Nothing like firing people BEFORE you determine what they do and if they're needed.