I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
On actually developed countries there are laws that force employers to wait a year before they re-hire laid off employees. They can re-hire early but they have to pay a lot of money to the employee and an additional labor tariff in taxes. Precisely to avoid this kind of fuckery.
Wrong button, oops. Lol #420
They should just start their own Supercharger company… With blackjack and hookers
I suspect that somebody’s smart, with a lot of money and not a lot of scruples (not that it’s a factor here, I just hate rich people) is going to scoop them all up and either try to replace the standard, or if Elon is lucky, license it and leave the standard alone. Elon’s not that smart though so he probably wouldn’t agree to it.
They wouldn’t even need to license it, part of getting the other car manufacturers to switch to NACS was establishing it as an open standard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Charging_Standard
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two weeks ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk enacted widespread layoffs throughout the company, including the 500-strong team responsible for the brand’s Supercharger.
Now, Tesla is looking to hire some of them back, Bloomberg reports, as Musk promises to spend $500 million expanding the network.
The layoffs also appeared to put Tesla’s plan to build a more powerful charger that would benefit cars using 800 V or 900 V architectures, including Audi, Porsche, Lucid, and others, on hold.
But last week, Musk announced that Tesla would spend more than $500 million building out more chargers, just days after saying the focus would instead be on uptime at existing locations.
(At the time of the layoffs, Electrek reported that Musk got rid of the entire team because its Tinucci did not lay off enough workers on her own.)
In 2019, he decided to close all of Tesla’s retail locations to pay for a cheaper version of the Model 3 sedan.
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This is a sociopath testing fealty. He is deliberately abusing people in an attempt to show his power and diminish theirs. Remember when he tried to blame his sociopathy on autism thereby besmirching the disabled? I do.
But he just gave them all the power. He needs them. They can demand higher wages, better conditions, etc.
Nah. They now know he can fire them again.
If they’re smart, they’ll “work” for him while preparing to jump ship.
I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
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I need a 1yr salary sign-on bonus before I clock in. I also need full pay for 120 months after any form of departure from the company.
You know, since I can’t trust the stability of the relationship.
Also, this new salary is going to be 8x what I was being paid previously.
Oh naturally.
I was just ironing out what I wouldn’t be doing any work for.
I’d get that shit notarized and then quit. Take a 10 year vacation to academia or something. Get published. 🤷♂️
Indeed know a guy who got played 9ff by big blue. He was the only one who could do his job so he has screwed them as a contractor for 500 a day 100% working from home and a loooooong termination clauses
I made $750-$1000/day as a camera operator working 8hr days in my mid 20’s. Yeah I didn’t work every day but $500 a day is honestly not that much for what that guy does. After taxes he’s making like 90-100k a year at best.
500 a day is $62.50/hr, that’s not very good for contracting, especially if they don’t take taxes and healthcare out. Any sort of key contractor like that ought to be worth at least $250/hr
Seriously, that’s really low rates. Healthcare and all that overhead is usually at least double of the actual salary.
I charge $90(CDN), pay myself around $40. Solo contractor with occasional support staff.
Need to up my rate, it’s a bit low for what I do, even though I’m no genius or expert specialist.
They’re in the UK. They don’t have our stupid healthcare system.
He should re-brand as a “consultant” and charge double that.
A delusional billionaire toying with people’s lives. More at 11
The singular reason #Muskrat isn’t living under a bridge & eating bath salts is that he was born rich.
Moral of the story: kids, be born rich and then you can live in a mansion and eat bath salts!
A mansion, or a shipping container.
https://observer.com/2021/06/elon-musk-new-home-inside-view-boca-chica-spacex/
Wait, so…
- Lives in a shipping container
- Obviously on drugs
- Receives welfare from the government
- Screams racist shit at strangers
Is… is Elon Musk a hobo?
Hobo’s work. Musk is a tramp. Tramps don’t work.
Like depression era tramp, not “my wife’s a tramp.”
I’d go back, put my feet on the desk and collect a little walkin around money, basically daring them to fire me again…
I’d go back and introduce enough backdoors to make them utterly incapable of staying in business. Steal all the documents. Then steal things. Then talk my way into being fired. Then start popping off the backdoors one at a time. Post all the documents for free. Something something shorting the stock.
So, jailtime then.
That or be scum enough to frame someone else for it.
What are the job titles of the people on these teams? I would suppose physics and CS. How are those job sectors looking in terms of vacancies? I’d think that there are more workers than jobs and that this is a ploy to get less experienced people for cheaper but they’re trying to rehire the same employees.
Announce large workforce cuts: line go up?
Announce large investment in workforce (even if it was just cut): line go up more?
I don’t really get the logic that’s going on the impulsive billionaire imbecile’s mind.
Everyone being rehired to Tesla had better be asking for at least double for the trouble Musk put them through.
Someone probably reminded Elon of the giant government grant he took to expand the supercharger network and that he could make the company liable for losing all that money.
Yeah. I suspect they let him know he could have honest to goodness consequences for his actions.
For less probably.
Why would anyone go back for less?
It’s a common practice for companies to lay off high priced employees and then post those jobs for a lower amount. Why would they go back? If they’re smart they won’t. But some people need a job—at least until they can find another job.
It’s a bad practice either way, because these employees won’t ever feel their job is secure again, and that makes them care less about how the company does… as it should.
Did they not get severance?
I highly doubt these are generic wage slaves, I am would assume they can get jobs else where?
If they can’t negotiate a fat raise under these circumstances, I am not really sure these people can negotiate at all lol
You’d be surprised how many people lack negotiation skills. They think whatever is offered is what they get. I’ve coached many coworkers on how to play hardball with a smile.
chad… good. plebs helping plebs fuck daddy :D
Damn right. I love my company, but we have the money to pay well. I don’t want anyone working with me who feels like they are underpaid. We moved offices and it became a much longer commute for one of our juniors. I kept harassing my manger to give him a bump for the effort. He wouldn’t have taken the job with that commute, so we had to sweeten it for him. My manager said “his review is 6 months away” and I said “it’s not a raise, it’s for the inconvenience to his life.” Got him 10%—and got none of the credit, haha. But that’s okay, I feel good.
My brother in business, I see you.
Once had to ask why the only woman our team was making significantly less. Got a shrug back from the HR director, a woman. I couldn’t believe that I had to fight her to bring compensation in line.
It’s not JUST the billionaires that are the problem. It’s really all the people that need to feel they’re somehow above others.
It blew me away when I met these people. These real “keep your head down” folks.
When my company laid people off, and then did the shitty thing of rehire them back at a freelancing level, one gal cried tears of happiness that she was given another chance.
I just dont understand it. Like going back to your abuser.
(At the time of the layoffs, Electrek reported that Musk got rid of the entire team because its Tinucci did not lay off enough workers on her own.)
This single anecdote tells you just about everything you need to know about how Elon Musk approaches any kind of interpersonal interaction. His emotional IQ is non-existent.
Were they trying to start a union or something?
This is just getting stupid now. It seems Elon has totally lost his mind.
he’s the ‘ceo’ of like 6 companies. Its clear he’s spending all his time giving neonazis handjobs on xitter
Should just start referring to them as part time jobs. How much work can they be if he’s supposedly doing multiple at once?
