Being vindictive against a performer because you don't like their information is stupid. Making enemies of your most informed employees is also dumb.

@srt8turboawdjeep146

Ай бұрын

How do you get this out of the video? What was "vindictive"?

@hotrodandrube9119

Ай бұрын

@@srt8turboawdjeep146 he was mad at the woman who was in charge of the supercharger team, so he fired everyone out of spite, not because every employee was individually underperforming. It seems blatantly vindictive.

@srt8turboawdjeep146

Ай бұрын

@@hotrodandrube9119 If that is what happened then yikes

@philipgrice1026

21 күн бұрын

@@hotrodandrube9119 I suspect Elon asked for technical reasons why the charger installations were not happening and the director didn't have the answers. He is intolerant of management that is not intimately involved and current on the technical issues. Boeing, on the other hand, is managed by senior executives that don't know anything about the technical issues that affect their products and we can see how well they are doing.

Hired back after getting fired doesn't seem to feel that good

@toriless

Ай бұрын

It is not, I would spend all day looking for another job that did not depend in the whims of a sociopath.

@kpectbi

16 күн бұрын

Unless the person demanded 3 times pay :)

“You can always hire people back”…not if they have found another place where there isn’t a 50 to 80-hour work week, and you don’t get fired at the drop of a hat or by a regular “cull the herd” schedule. Staying in the office for long periods does not necessarily mean you are more productive. You make bad decisions and tend to solve things like always. Inspiration and genius ideas often come away from work - like the day after in the shower or on the way to work. I would have just worked further along a tangent if I had stayed longer. Both regarding people count and work hours - sometimes less is more.

@perryallan3524

Ай бұрын

The people who are willing to be hired back are not going to be the best people. You will be towards the bottom of the barrel for motivation and productivity. The best people will just move on and never have anything to do with Tesla or Elon Musk again. While It was not Tesla... You could offer $1 million/year salary and I would not go back to a certain company.

I worked for a similar company for 12 years that did the same crap.The remaining employees were so scared that quality control was a thing of the past.They after 3 more years went out of business.If the employees have no security in there job you will have no loyalty.

@metriczeppelin

Ай бұрын

If there's no business then there's no jobs. Security thru responsibility.

@buckbreaker5185

Ай бұрын

dont worry they will give Elon $50B and he will save the world!!!

@lurin971

Ай бұрын

Similar company? Which one?

@lurker668

Ай бұрын

​@@lurin971any US based

@AdelaeR

Ай бұрын

But on the other hand, if employees have too much security in their jobs, they become lazy, complacent and uncreative.

From the viewpoint of the affected employees - If I were suddenly fired and then asked to come back, I would almost definitely not go back.

@JoeBManco

Ай бұрын

I would go back, but it wouldn't be to give it my all.

@eyesuckle

Ай бұрын

I would consider going back--but not without a hefty raise. Anyone can make a mistake. But there should be a cost associated with mistakenly firing a good employee.

@kazedcat

Ай бұрын

If I got a severance package and then get a sign in bonus when rehired. Then why would I let emotions prevail over making more money. It's business bro Elon's not your grandpa.

@RT-mv7df

Ай бұрын

@@kazedcat You know he's only rehiring to complete the work he abruptly disrupted, and since it's already announced they are firing 10% of the company, more future layoffs are in store. That's means there's a high likelihood you could get cut a 2nd time once you've trained the remaining people who are earning less & the hole has been plugged. I'd return, to get the extra pay, but unless I received some form of security I'd also have my resume & feelers out to work somewhere else and then I'd bolt as soon as I found the right opportunity with no love lost leaving him high & dry at a moment's notice like he did to me & my coworkers. Fair is fair. If it's just business, then expect to also be on the receiving end of that cold brutality.

@metriczeppelin

Ай бұрын

@@eyesuckle "hefty raise" is not, nor will it ever be your decision.

'Tesla can always hire back' . . . Anyone you get to come back is never going invest themselves in the company again.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Elon is always right because he's a genius not you.

@DavidSmith-if3qc

Ай бұрын

@@davidsoom1551 lol

@scottmari

Ай бұрын

Tesla isn't a job like yours. It's a mission-driven company - you're not there for a paycheck.

@palladen1933

Ай бұрын

Money is more important than people just ask Elon.. but I am sure he would have given him all 6 months pay for all the help they have given him and money they have made him (not) 👎👎👎👎

@JustPeaceLoveAndKindness

Ай бұрын

Anyone thinking this way will never be invited back into a company like Tesla. Elon is running a cutting edge company, not a daycare center. Chances are that you are the one contributing to the inefficiency.

Hire and fire is not a sustainable process. It teaches managers to overtire, so they have fat to cut. It teaches employees to always have an eye out for a better job and, for the top people, those jobs show up. There are better ways to keep up efficiency.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

Yep. never trust sociopathic people like Elon who do not give a crap about their employees, he treats people with a much concern as a wheel bolt. Every "rehire" should start looking for real job.

Elon's policy of firing and rehiring worked so well at twitter, Why not do it again?

@toriless

Ай бұрын

Yeah, Twitter is with nothing now.

Nothing says how much you are appreciated as: “You’re Fired”.

@tommydong8070

Ай бұрын

Firing someone would mean the person must have phucked up. Thus did Musk laid off the SC team or fired them all? Since they got severance package, therefore they got laid off.

@christinearmington

Ай бұрын

This hurts me more . . . bs. 🤨🤬

@metriczeppelin

Ай бұрын

Through Rebecca's charge of the team it grew to an unacceptable size for the results shown. There are other reasons beyond what John has shared. Appreciation of a job and taking advantage of that job are two very different subjects.

@jhfl1881

Ай бұрын

Because growth of a company always means firing people, not finding new roles for them. I think if I was fired, I'm giving them the finger if they come back and saying "just kidding, we still need you."

@jeran881

Ай бұрын

Catch 22 with a side of 69. Do the wrong thing, your fired. Do the right thing, your fired.

I watched the balance of this video and now I the take back some of my layoff criticism. If Tesla was taking nine months to install a level 2 home charger, something serious is wrong. It took me 2 days to install a level 2 charger after I received it.

@metriczeppelin

Ай бұрын

100%, but many here are commenting with their emotions, not their minds and how a business needs to be run. Do they write their paychecks? No, they receive their paychecks.

@StinkPickle4000

Ай бұрын

Then why would Tesla rush to hire them back?

@Zripas

Ай бұрын

@@StinkPickle4000 Well you can solve things like that in two ways, slowly try to figure out whose slowing down everything and doesn't do their job or fire everyone and rehire those who proved that they did their job.

@JohnFields

Ай бұрын

So a problem in one product means all products are bad? Fire everyone! Institutional memory? Who needs that? Employees see each other being treated as modern cannon fodder, and Elon is just welcoming the unions as employees seek to protect themselves from whims like this. Reorgs are good but this isn't one and he is trading an inefficiency for a problem. Not emotional. Makes little sense unless he has grown tired of cars and is positioning himself to move on (cough: ai ultimatum). I hope my shares he moves sooner before he does more long term damage to shareholder value.

@palmtreeshenanigans

Ай бұрын

But this is how America works and has forever, pay workers peanuts and they work like monkeys pay them a living wage and treat them better and they will do everything for the company, why do you think American products are seen as inferior even in China. I would rather buy from China than America, they have more knowhow and their quality is improving all the time as others in asia start competing with them.

Can we criticize them for taking 9 to 14 months to build a charging center? Sometimes it takes that long just to get a building permit. I've seen a planning department take years to issue an approval. The bureaucratic lethargy at the City and County level in some counties is mind boggling.

@LuKiSCraft

Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure the 9-14mo figure is not counting permitting. Permits/construction tracked by a website - type "supercharge info" in Google to see it (YT will remove this comment if I link it)

@UNCIVILIZE

Ай бұрын

That's exactly why Tesla left CA for TX. And Elon will always seek the most efficient path of least resistance.

@LuKiSCraft

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the 9-14mo doesn't include the permit time though

@Pooua

Ай бұрын

@@LuKiSCraft Not when a third-party contractor gets the same job done in a month.

@LuKiSCraft

Ай бұрын

@@Pooua The permitting? Or the construction? sorry I'm unsure what your point is TBH. I agree Tesla has been slow with this though.

cant believe i almost listened to 12 mins of praise of musk why did i click on this ?

So "what is the real reason?" Unless you were there at that moment, all are only speculation.

I know for a fact that if you fire a large team of people that you can almost never hire all of them back. For many people, being fired burns a bridge that can be expensive if not impossible to rebuild. Also with a large team of people, there will be people that have recently rebuffed recruitment efforts. If it looks like that person might have someone else on the line and their previous employer comes back begging, that former employee will put them off until they've explored the other opportunity. And if you are offered a position with competitive pay, how many former employees would consider returning to what they probably now view as a hostile work environment?

@RT-mv7df

Ай бұрын

I would go back (b/c he blindsided me & put me in a precarious financial circumstance) while secretly applying and putting out my resume for a better position at a different company. As soon as I had a good opportunity, I would bolt and leave him high & dry the same way he treated me.

@joelcorley3478

Ай бұрын

​@@RT-mv7df- Fair point. Either way attempting to rehire people you just unceremoniously fired usually doesn't work out.

Big companies do this all the time. Nothing new. Never think a company has your best interest in mind, your job is just business, and you should treat your boss, co workers, and the company as such.

@bryanwhitton1784

Ай бұрын

Yep, throughout my career, retired now, I never had any loyalty to a company. I worked most of my career in Silicon Valley and your position is only good as long as someone you don't know decides it is. I have gone to lunch and come back to the police on the roof and parking lots and a company was essentially let go. No warning and no severance package. They even announced that they didn't have a layoff rather they got rid of dead wood. Those of us that were let go filed a class action suit for defamation and wrongful termination.The company quickly announced a retraction. This was all because the CEO and Dir. of Hardware Eng were developing a piece of hardware and were putting together another company to take that development to a full product all on the parent companies dollar. None of those let go had anything to do with what was going on. That taught me a lot. Went through several other layoffs and restructurings. I learned to watch real close and quit before they happened. I didn't want to be looking for a job competing with others that had been laid off. If I quit first there was less competition. Companies only care about you as they want you. Never assume you are special or indispensable.

@toddmarshall7573

Ай бұрын

The problem big companies have is the choices of who to let go are made by people who have arrived at their position through the Peter Principle (i.e. promoted past their level of ability). They cut those who threaten them (i.e .the useful people) rather than the avoiders (i.e. dead wood).

@palmtreeshenanigans

Ай бұрын

Yet they will cry if you do not show absolute loyalty and give up your precious free time for the company, but ask for an increase or better working conditions and they fire you. I worked for a hotel they fired three staff and expected me to do their jobs with no increase at all in fact asking me to work longer hours to make up for not hiring replacements as they believed i could do the work of 4 people. So i did for a month then one day after asking yet again about an increase and being rejected i turned around and told them i quit with immediate effect , they threatened me but what are they going to do take me to court where i explain they fired 3 people and expected me to do those jobs with no increase or compensation other than a regular hourly rate even doing 4 hours overtime every day. They recovered eventually but had serious problems with other staff, put under pressure, quitting, they ended up not only hiring someone to fill my place but 4 others as the new person would take months to find out all the ways not to fuck up. Managers and to work double shifts and i visited and laughed when my senior manager that i barely saw before, behind reception, he glared at me as i turned and walked out after putting a security device that i had accidentally taken home on the counter and walked out.

@bobsmith3983

Ай бұрын

The managers keep their buddies and fire their competitors.

The employers demand loyalty, but they’re rarely loyal to their employees. The employees are usually just the tools in hands of their employers.

You are spot on! One of clients is working to get Tesla chargers at their retail stores and most of their contacts at Tesla were gone. After speaking with some of the remaining contacts, they stated exactly what you stated. They mentioned that Elon did this at Space X in the past.

The difference between the charging companies is massive. Building parking lots for charging is different than selling a charging station to hotels and existing businesses. You can't always hire back the people you pissed off.

@MSpangler

Ай бұрын

Would you go back. Nooooooo!

@RT-mv7df

Ай бұрын

I would go back (b/c he blindsided me & put me in a precarious financial circumstance) while secretly applying and putting out my resume for a better position at a different company. As soon as I had a good opportunity, I would bolt and leave him high & dry the same way he treated me.

@Matzes

Ай бұрын

Probably best that way, doesnt sound like you are cut out to work at tesla ​@@RT-mv7df

@offwhitemke

Ай бұрын

Exactly. All those people likely developed relationships with the people at all of those locations which helped to move things along. Now entirely new people have to start that over from scratch? That is such an unforced error.

@tarstarkusz

Ай бұрын

Supercharging is complete fantasy. It only works in small numbers. We simply do not have the infrastructure to run them. We don't have the spare capacity in either generation or distribution (grid). You pull into a supercharger place and there are 10-20 chargers all claiming to be able to charge in 100kw plus rates. Supercharging will be absolutely necessary for the millions upon millions who live in apartments, row homes and other places without a garage or even a driveway.

Nearly 60K super-chargers in the USA. Assuming there are nearly 300 million cars in the USA (2020 figures), if all are EVs, that would be 5,000 EVs to one charger. Crazy.

@metriczeppelin

Ай бұрын

There will never be 300 million personally owned Ev's in the US. Our population is shrinking and with the advent of robotaxi's even less personally owned EV's will be on roads.

@ThePeterR66

Ай бұрын

is your home working with electricity ? Crazy POWER 10

@bigglyguy8429

Ай бұрын

@@metriczeppelin They have zero intention of allowing you to own your own transport. EVs are the thin end of the wedge, forcing you into what is basically a remote-controlled computer on wheels which they can control and restrict.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

Only 2 million are EV.

@RUHappyATM

Ай бұрын

@@toriless Did you forget what will happen when all private vehicles are EVs?

Thanks Jon, very good and helpful video ! 🙏👏🏆

There are 145,000-195,000 gas stations in the US. There's only 2,300± supercharger stations. I'm aware that many can charge at home, but MANY can't. EV charging has a LONG way to go. In my area, there isn't a supercharger within a 50 mile radius.

@dvader3263

Ай бұрын

Most people charge their EV at home. This is a fact in that most people drive less than 40 miles per day, while occasionally driving slightly farther regionally near their home on weekends. Multiply 40 miles times 365 days. That's 14,600 miles. Most people don't take 2,000 mile road trips every year. If they do take a long road trip, it's rare, and not across the entire country. For destination trips across the country, it's a waste of time, money and wear to spend many days on the road driving. Take a jet instead and rent a vehicle when you get there. It's faster and gives more time for fun around your destination. Most Americans work 50 + or - weeks per year. Even for apartment dwellers in the city, Superchargers work just fine. Do apartment dwellers ever read, check e-mails, text, surf the web, listen to music, nap or go out to shop at Target or get groceries? People can do all of those things once or twice per week while charging an EV for 20 or 30 minutes. That's all it takes. Really, it's not difficult.

@DowlWatcher

Ай бұрын

Yeah it's not difficult to assume when I say MANY can't charge at home = apartment dwellers. And why call them dwellers? A bit derogatory. Installing a home charger isn't *cheap*. Don't let your upper middle class mindset fool you on that. I rented a Model X, and it was a pain in the ass to charge. To charge effectively and efficiently, I had to plan my routes way outside of convince. You live in a bubble.

@k34561

Ай бұрын

Your right there not enough superchargers. But your off on the numbers. Tesla alone owns 2300 sites containing 26,000 superchargers. The rest (Electrify America etc.) own a similar number of sites containing half as many superchargers. Tesla is building larger 12-16 stall sites, while the others are just starting to build 8 stall sites. In total figure 4000-5000 sites containing 35,000-45,000 superchargers. We still need many more superchargers. But more orientated towards travel. Some also for apartments, but ultimately that should be solved by level two chargers.

@DowlWatcher

Ай бұрын

@@k34561 Well I said 2300± supercharger STATIONS(like a gas station) and I'm only including the US, and Califorina has the most. Gas stations total between 900,000 to 1.8 million pumps. They need more stations, maybe not as many as gas stations but enough to make it convenient to drive for everyone. And they're a long way away from this. A lot of people drive 20, 30, 40 miles to work, and then do more after work. I drive 100miles total a day to work, and sometime I drive 150miles if I have other things to take care of. I agree there are more chargers outside of the tesla superchargers but most of those chargers are AWFUL. The nearest charger outside of tesla superchargers for me is 30miles away at a theater and there's only 2 /7.7kw Volta chargers there.

@DowlWatcher

Ай бұрын

@k34561 Man I just typed an entire essay and sent.. and it's not showing up and I'm not going to type all that shit out again. But I said there are 2,300± Supercharger STATIONS.

Jon... I would also suggest that legacy auto "pulling back" 6 months after they said "we're in" MAY have had something to do with it? Tesla was ramping and the lack of extra customers from other brands meant there would be too many chargers not being utilised, potentially meaning the network would lose money. Now, enough for existing customers, those under construction completed, V2 chargers upgraded and "gaps" filled will be sufficient, but not overkill. When ("IF") the other companies grow a pair and return, the ramp can continue. Although, I would suggest that if they do, Tesla should say "here are the plans ... YOU build chargers" Give them some skin in the game

@eyesuckle

Ай бұрын

Yes! This makes a lot of sense.

@JohnFields

Ай бұрын

"If it was easy, then everyone would do it....". Tesla did the hard thing and then cut out the institutional memory of how it was done. Saying the ramp can "just continue" means all new people that haven't done it before.. and it just won't be the same. History says lowered cost and lowered quality are the result of these kinds of extreme and short term actions. Might work at SpaceX but definitely wouldn't work at Tesla right now.

@johnd01

Ай бұрын

I agree. I have 11,000 miles so far this year in 3 over the road trips from Carlsbad CA to bonners ferry idaho and Sacramento to Nashville and a lot of places in-between. From my experience we have network that could easily support 5 times as many cars. I never found a location without at least open chargers many times I was the only car at a 12-24 charger location. There were 3 of us at the 80 stall harris ranch location. The places like Idaho and the flyover states that do not have a lot of chargers do not have very many Tesla.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

"Legacy auto"? Have you seen the sales figures for your unwanted flawed technology electric cars that now have no buyers since all the nerds and low testosterone guys bought theirs. Electric cars are for the golf course and grandma to the market. We Taxpayers are tired of supporting a technology that can't support it's self and all the hype in the world won't bring it back. The new legacy auto is the EV!

@johnd01

Ай бұрын

@davidsoom1551 The present economy has cut into all car sales. Teslas are still selling well in comparison to other cars. My Model Y can drive like a sports car. I have over 13,000 road trip miles charging at supercharges. Every time I get to a charger there is still room for more cars. When I charge at home the car is ready to go by 6 am with the amount of charge I have specified. This is the fastest car I have ever owned. I tipicly do not charge more than 80% of the 330 mile range. I try to get to charges with 5 to 10% of charge becase the bottom part of the battery charges up to 1024 MPH while at 80% the charge rate has dropped to about 200MPH. When charging I disconect shortly after the car predicts I will arive at the next charger with 10% charge remaining. Most charging sessions are in the 20 to 25 minute range and I need some time to walk around about when it is time to charge. Road trips are the weekest use for this car. It works well to be ready to go every moreing at home and not needing to supercharge unless I am going to drive more than 250 miles a day. I never drive more than 250 miles in a day unless I am doing a road trip.

Thank you for explaining the context much better than all the articles just highlighting that the team was fired without the reasoning.

No money to pay their salary. 12m14s saved. You're welcome.

I've put in 4 requests to host, never heard a word back. Hope this change is for the better.😊

I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs and I feel bad for the people who are still working for him today as their work load just increased tremendously, with fear of being "an inefficiency".

The time it takes to install chargers is one thing but they were still a strong profit center for the company. Why would the supercharger waste their time on piddly level 2 chargers when they were and still are expanding out the network?

I think the quoted schedules are not being properly stated. It is suggested that Tesla takes 6 to 9 months for installation. I imagine that is all inclusive - site selection, negotiation with land owner (ie: parking lot), permitting with electrical utility company, trenching and feeding from the electrical grid, and final installation. My experience in engineering and construction tells me that 6 to 9 months makes sense. Meanwhile, Smart Charge America which quotes 24 days is probably referring only to construction phase into a commercial site (ie: hotels and apartment buildings) that already have adequate electrical services within the building's parkade to tap into and where permitting is not required.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

I see charging stations, NONE are using Tesla equipment, at home they ALL use it but not at stations.

Thank you for the explanation. This decision now makes sense being put into context. Keep up the great reporting and insights.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Makes no sense to me because it's wrong. People are being fired because the EV fad is over and no one is buying them!

Interesting, I've been on both sides of the desk and, it's far better to be on one side than the other. No one bled red blood when I hit the street. Really made me feel great to know I helped the team as the door hit me in the "A" on the way out. And, I have a sack of pennies I'll trade for dimes.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

but you are not a sociopath like Elon Musk.

In any large company it is difficult to identify the ones actually getting things done and if teams' bosses are unwilling or unable to weed out the bad actors, starting from scratch is exactly what is warranted. In addition, Tesla is the premier place to work for ev chargers. My take is that the ones rehired are happy the dead wood is gone and feel more empowered to deliver results.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

You obvious do not work, F him, I would take it for the money while applying everywhere else. Elon is sociopath who gives a crap about employees.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Then why aren't they delivering results? The lay offs are because the nerds and such have already bought theirs and no one else wants them. The new Legacy Auto is the EV!

This cost cutting is interesting considering Elon was angered his $56 Billion dollar compensation package was turned down. Ironic.

@Chamieiniibet

Ай бұрын

It wasn't a monetary (cash) compensation and it was his only "salary" in the company for the last 5(?) years. Also the court decision was to award some unrelated law firm with *6 billion* dollars of Tesla money as "legal fee".

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

If you say anything else bad against Elon you'll have to answer to me, low testosterone soy boy.

Thank you.

So... how does firing the entire team solve an inefficiency problem... unless Elon is going to subcontract the charger installation work to non-employees working for the likes of the company that can do the job in 24 days for $7000? I'm thinking this is what's going on...

@tommornini2470

Ай бұрын

By eliminating and replacing the team that became inefficient. Just like Twitter -> X

@2005CessnaPilot

Ай бұрын

I agree that this is what is going to happen. Outsource. Or sell all or a percentage of Superchargers to PE investors or Blackstone's Infrastructure team to expand and get paid ongoing royalties.

@19valleydan

Ай бұрын

@@tommornini2470 yes, once bureaucratization sets in, it's very hard to change since the old hands get used to either not working or busy working...only one way to clean the Augean stables as Hercules demonstrated

@sicaris415

Ай бұрын

Once bureaucracy sets in, it is really hard to tell who is causing the lazy and toxic work environment. Better to redo the whole team than to rehire the same inefficient managers

@WJV9

Ай бұрын

​@@tommornini2470 - The knowledge of designing high KWH charging stations is a non-trivial Electrical Engineering problem and also involves negotiation with local power companies to provide transformers with adequate KWH to support charging multiple cars without slowing down charging rate for others. At some charging stations with many cars charging, you may need to provide local battery storage with converter/inverter electonics to store energy and provide Supercharging KWH to the charging stations greater than the KWH delivered from local power transformers.

It seems like pruning roses.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

You have to have a rose to begin with. When you count all the taxpayer government funds and all the investor funds given to Elon and Tesla you should get more cars sold than have been. Don't reply until you do the math!

There are about eight SC stations in the Smart and Final near my in-laws that are not working at all. So not sure what is holding them back from going live.

Reward for bad work, your fired. Reward for good work, your fired. Reward for meeting the standards, your fired. It's a wonderful system we have ain't it?

@toriless

Ай бұрын

This is what happens with a sociopath like Elon Musk.

@jeran881

Ай бұрын

@@toriless I like most of what he's doing I just can't condone some of his methods.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Wait just a minute, I've been to 2 picnics, a rodeo and a Worlds Fair and I ain't seen nuthin like it!

If the department was inefficient, fire everyone, rehire the managers who would agree with the new business model, rehire the techs who had good metrics.

Love you Jon. In the spirit of the best part is no part, you don’t need to mention Elon’s last name. Everyone knows who you’re talking about when you say the name Elon. Keep up the great work!

8:20 This makes sense. Workers adding unbranded chargers at a nearby mall are taking over half a year. I thought to myself, Elon wouldn't let Tesla's chargers take so long. But maybe he did and decided to do something about it. One of the few things he added to Tesla was the proprietary adapter, and now that advantage is gone, so I can understand why he's as nervous as Ma Bell being required to share its lines with other companies.

You have to run power to the chargers, it doesn't matter if its a level 2 or a 3, you need permits and time to dig/trench. The reason they can do it in

Musk is treating his employees badly. Those employees will treat their customers badly. Just take your Tesla in for service to see this principle in action.

Assuming there were such severe issues the problem is that it all happened on Elons watch. As the CEO it’s ultimately his responsibility to make sure the company is executing effectively. Letting something slip so badly it has to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch isn’t good. Maybe he should spend more time with Tesla or hand of some responsibilities to someone else. Similar to Gwyn Shotwell at SpaceX.

Having worked in solar and wind power site development permitting, it makes sense for Tesla to offload new supercharger site development to 3rd parties, saving money for Tesla to develop better self-driving, robotaxis, low-cost EV, AI, robots, energy storage, etc. Hiring back a few key people helps Tesla sell sites in development to Revel and BP energy.

@falseprogress

Ай бұрын

"Having worked in solar and wind power site development permitting,..." Way to go, ruining millions of acres of viewsheds (usually untouched by older energy development) and making bird/bat flyways lethal - while virtue-signaling about "saving the planet". Nuclear power could prevent a lot of future energy sprawl.

I'm glad that we have a "Kündigungsfrist" in germany ;). I'm at Senior level in my company and if they want to fire me they have to tell me 4 months in advance. They could kick me out without that but they would have to pay me for 4 more months. It's ok to fire staff but the way elon does it is just insane. I'm saying this as a fan of Elon, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and as someone who already bought several Teslas. The way he does it is just wrong. In this massive growth plan of Tesla there should never be such a extreme need to fire people in such a scale. He's also not doing good PR for Tesla with this... everyone knows that a job at Tesla is far from safe.

@anydaynow01

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately this is the way tech companies behave. Entire departments get fired via an email far too often these days, this combined with pitiful retirement packages makes future planning for workers difficult for sure.

@majorsten

Ай бұрын

Do you know if there was a compensation package after the layoffs?

@4literv6

Ай бұрын

@@majorsten 2 full months of pay with full cobra benefits was shared publicly for all the cut folks from tesla.

@aaronb7990

Ай бұрын

6 months in the US, and it's backed by the Gov, so if a company goes under, people still get paid. Tesla is big and not going under so they have to pay for the unemployment they create. They also gave a 2 month full pay and benifits severance bonus I believe. In some states benefits are compounded by food aid cash and other services available to the unemployed.

@tommornini2470

Ай бұрын

This is why Tesla is dismantling the German auto industry.

I work on the cyber line and they cut a lot of good workers there too. The sad thing was that it was practically random who got cut. One guy I was training just started and was a great worker learning very fast and wanting to work his way up. Got cut in his first week there had done nothing wrong. I also saw other hard-working people for years there that got cut. Then I see a lot of the typical slackers at work stay. To me I think that a lot of the cuts are to scare the workers to realize they have to work hard or they'll be tossed aside. Which now everyone runs around afraid they'll lose their job if they sit down for a minute.

@vasthefox

Ай бұрын

As a Tesla investor and an avid fan of the products I am VERY dismayed to hear that slackers remain employed. Elon professes to value competence and hard work above all else. It seems as though your manager is not inline with Elon. Please consider Emailing Elon directly about the slackers in your department.

@ahhmm5381

Ай бұрын

Is the work as dangerous as many former employees claim?

@muderbuder

Ай бұрын

@ahhmm5381 yes and no ig. I can't speak for the past and or other lines as I only work in cyber but, it took 3 or more months to just get a couple of fans. I say or more cause I've been here for 3 months. We were told it's not in the budget. When in our part of the factory it ranges from whatever it gets to outside in Texas. This is due to there being no AC since there's still a hole in our part of the building. Which is fine ig but fans aren't that expensive like we were asking for 3-5 100-150$ fans. Tesla made 20 billion in profit in 2022 I think they can afford that 🙃 I was talking to a guy that's worked here for 2 years and he was talking about a pregnant lady who passed out on the line. The management came over and told them to move her to the side so the line can keep moving. Yeah they probably got help but the priority didn't seem like their livelihood but profit/production. I think I would have been better to approach why they passed out in the first place to prevent further things happening like that. We've also been told we're not allowed to sit down on our 12-hour shifts even if the buffer is full and the line isn't moving. They also have us running on a skeleton crew so we don't have people to cover when some are absent. It's all dumb and clearly exploitative. Ever since the 10% cuts everyone is scared to lose their job and it's causing more to leave for other work. I could go on but I need sleep for my next shift tomorrow 🙃

@eyesuckle

Ай бұрын

Interesting. Good to hear this perspective from someone inside the company. There are usually better motivators than fear.

@kurtlowder3276

Ай бұрын

scare the shit out of your workforce and they will work harder in the short term. I dont like it. I wish Musk would just accept a little loss in productivity as business as usual. long-term all these layoffs could really hurt tesla. especiallys since sales have suffered because musk cannot stop ranting about completely unimportant topics on X. for example, Tesla probably lost billions in market cap because musk had to beef with disney and taylor swift. seriously WTF? argue with the two most popular things with in the world particularly with women who already are not buying enough teslas. we dont need musk off fighting pointless culture wars. we need him to stop being so frantic and all over the map. he needs to stay in his lane. trying to solve every percieved problem with a tweet completely ruined the tesla brand. these people lost their jobs because musk cannot calm the fuck down.

No one is "owed" a job. It is a function of supply, demand and efficiency. We all applaud reasonably priced and high quality goods and services but sometimes whine at the manner in which they are provided. We are all cutting corners in this economy. That includes businesses.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

Not me, I am smarter and know how to live.

Thank you and I completely agree with your assessment

Tesla's NACS webpage explicitly states: "Coming Spring 2024: General Motors, Volvo, Polestar." Who wants to tell E'loon that today is Summer Solstice? Ooooops.

Great job of explaining this !!! Media likes to show bad news without backstories....

You did a good job of explaining the overall Supercharger group dynamic / problem. Almost impossible to do any better without disclosure of proprietary information by Tesla, si thats that. It shoul;d also be considered that all of these wonderful domestic auto suppliers that have signed on to supercharger use have also just slashed all [production of EVs in the US for who knows how long??

Seems like if Tesla can install ports say 5 at a time as a unit then the installation time should take a heck of a lot less time per station. From what I understand the costs involved are way way out of the realm of getting a return on investment

Many in the Supercharger team have been rehired and Tesla is leaning on and using more subcontractors.

This makes a ton of sense. I've been wondering why I have yet to see a V4 supercharger & have yet to have paid $ to charge at a destination charger. Weren't they supposed to introduce a metering program for that?? Maybe we'd see more L2 Tesla chargers if the team was able to execute faster.

Cleanerwatt,,,,,i feel sorry for you too, But.....Your fired !

@bigdaddy1279

Ай бұрын

Yes. What a ridiculous effort. I finally unsubscribed.

@OnlyPenguian

Ай бұрын

"You're"

@stilllearning7434

Ай бұрын

@@OnlyPenguian you're right..... I'm fired too!

Tesla executives are selling huge amounts of their stock.

This video quoted Reuters who characterised the whole issue as a brain snap by Elon. This video then gave a justification, but REUTERS didn’t do that, they just threw mud. They have been on a roll lately on Tesla.

@kabob21

Ай бұрын

The Reuters article was sourced from interviews with laid off supercharger team employees. The opinions and speculation are the interviewees’ which are obviously going to be biased against Tesla.

@Tessie1234

Ай бұрын

@@kabob21 Biased opinion which Reuters was more than happy to amplify and syndicate.

all leather floor liners? Something amiss there.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Elon is a genius so don't question leather floors.

To understand you need to ponder a post-Robotaxi world: why waste your time at a charger when you can just rotate to a fresh one. Waiting at a charger is for the cars downtime, not yours.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

There is nothing wrong Elon has thought it all out.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

In China, they swap out battery packs, probably a rip-off like with propane tanks but suckers do it.

Makes sense.👌

In 95% of the US, the Supercharger network is way overbuilt. I travel all across the country in my Tesla, and it is very rare that there is more than one other car charging. Until EVs take off, and other manufacturers start selling EVs, further expansion of the network is a money pit.

@brucec954

Ай бұрын

Well you obviously have not driven in the western us outside of the coasts. Numerous places where there is only one 4 or 8 stall v2 site with 150 miles or so to the next one so if it’s out of order you are screwed.

@sicaris415

Ай бұрын

That is obviously not why they were fired. They were fired because they were too slow to rollout v4 in ready for the next phase. If a contractor can see how inefficient their team has become, you think Elon cannot easily figure this out by reviewing their processes and expenses?

@andyfeimsternfei8408

Ай бұрын

@@sicaris415 Regardless, they are over built and it makes no sense to keep adding sites. It doesn't make good business sense. Also my theory on V4 rollout is that NACS would work at 800v. The clearances are too tight.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

They are ALL like that, always empty. Meanwhile, next to me, 4 of 5 the home next to me have Tesla's, all charge AT HOME. Yes, the next two do not not and neither do I but about half, including me, are Tesla cars. Two have 2 Tesla cars.

Dear Cleanerwatt, it shows that you have never run a large biz and do not see the importance of how to wire and keep only the best.

@Conservator.

Ай бұрын

‘Wire’ probably must be ‘hire’ If I understand you correctly, you are saying that 100% of Tesla’s charging staff was ‘not the best’. If so, Musk should probably also fire 100% of his HR staff responsible for hiring those charging staff, wouldn’t you agree?

@toriless

Ай бұрын

Yep, Elon is a lazy sociopath.

Well, maybe this makes sense. Maybe. If streamlined efficiency is crucial for success and growth (which often it is), then company culture needs to pursue those fundamentals every day. Within Tesla, is this what happens? Or ... is it only Elon going on a periodic tear to wipe clean whole units? To build serious commitment to crucial fundamentals (lean, streamlined efficiency), you've got to be working on it every day. Sounds like Elon doesn't understand that part. If you want it that way, then work it. Work it. Periodic purges means you haven't been working it. This is an indictment of your organizational building style. See it. Fix that part.

This is an excellent and well-reasoned analysis. I think Sandy Munro would generally agree with your analysis. That said, I think firing the whole division was excessively rash and will leave lasting bad feelings with all those who were fired. I would not come back after an event like that. I suspect that all of the truly effective people in that division already have new jobs with other charging companies. Tesla will have to put some money up front to get them back, then will have to work hard to rebuild trust. That is one thing that Tesla does not seem to be good at.

Great video as always. People who have their own business will understand this is a tough decision need to be made, business world is never a rainbow fantasy where everything is perfect and great. It’s constantly at war, the competition is crazy especially for global business. Those who left Tesla, I feel bad they lost their job but I wont be worrying for them because Tesla ex employee is highly desirable by other companies, so they will not have problem moving on.

If you can get through the process of getting permits within 24 days to install a charging system that's pretty good. I am sure the municipalities are the largest hold up, I'm not sure that those word are true.

i think it is poor management.

@tommornini2470

Ай бұрын

If Tesla is poorly managed, the world needs more poor management.

@MossMini

Ай бұрын

Good management is having overpaid politized Union workers making irrelevant products, and when about to bankrupt use tax payer money to get a bail out.

@LuKiSCraft

Ай бұрын

Do you mean the charging team, or Tesla Corp as a whole?

@SupaChinido

Ай бұрын

I think so too, but I also think tesla wasn't gonna come close to becoming successful too

@biofueler

Ай бұрын

I think Elon handled the super charger team poorly if reports are correct. Firing everyone, then rehiring some of them

Why can I only see the thumbs down symbol beneath all YT videos now? Just started today. (I wanted to "like" your video)

I’m not surprised that a small team of 500 struggled to support an infrastructure of thousands of new and existing chargers spread across the US. The energy team was also spread thin before having to take over supercharging too. Not surprised that Tesla had to hire some fired employees back and time will tell the efficacy of this move.

I said from the start that other OEMs putting their faith in Tesla when adopting NACS was a risky move at best. You might think that plugging into a charger is as easy as plugging in a lamp, but that is far from the case. While communication protocols are published, there is much latitude for interpretation. With all the people who designed the superchargers and software gone, who are the OEMs to turn to? VW held an emergency meeting to discuss delaying or ending their NACS transition. Firing everyone and abandoning planned charging locations was a purely amateur move by a drug addled narcissist who is way out of his depth. I had hoped to gain some other insight from this video but it was just more making excuses for Musk's missteps.

My only problem was that there was no one assigned to communicate with Telsa’s partners in installing NCS superchargers level 2 or 4. It is a matter of trust. How can someone trust Tesla to partner with going forward. Going forward it is going to be a higher risk to convince the executive management of your company to partner with Tesla based on Elon’s/Telsa’s actions. Elon kept those maintenance folks keeping the chargers running with a goal on no downtime. Also the technology of FSD and the Tesla Bot is fairly impressive so that will help on the licensing of FSD with other OEMs and deploying the Tesla Bot to help in manufacturing. It is just the Elon’s actions in this case at Tesla may hinder or slow future partnerships with OEMs. We shall see. While it is hard for people fired or laid off (been fired and laid off at previous jobs myself) that is a valid business decision for the health of the business and hopeful will help in Tesla’s future growth. As I said communication about what is going on with current partners is my only criticism of Elon’s and Tesla’s actions.

Also Elon, give me a 56 billion payout

I wouldn't go back if I was fired like that. I would jump ship to a competitor. That why I voted no Elon's pay package and moving Tesla's corporate base from Delaware to Texas. For the first time, I voted against all of the board's recommendation. If Tesla wants to be lean, cut some of the executives like Kimbal Musk and Robert Murdoch.

Be cause he’s a business man before humanity

Thank-you! Great show as always. Scary folks to work for - off with their heads! Note that some of Elon's people last forever, and hopefully the good ones get hired back. RCH

Cleanerwatt, This is fantastic! I subscribed because I love it!

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Whoop, whoop Elon knows what he's doing. The laid off workers should be glad they are helping Elon's company succeed.

Firing them speaks volumes about Tesla’s future.

@animejanai4657

Ай бұрын

He rehired a number of employees. So this was probably one of those corporate events where to avoid lawsuits in firing people, the entire organization is eliminated and then people are selectively re-hired. I've seen local companies do the same thing, and it also allows the company to re-sign the employee under a new employment contract with new wording.

@Battleneter

Ай бұрын

He was trying to save $millions (meanwhile pillaging Tesla Shareholder pushing for a $56 Billion personal bonus).

@animejanai4657

Ай бұрын

@@Battleneter That personal bonus $56B was blocked by that judge because it was in the aftermath musk makiing comments of working with that disgruntled disney investor buying control of disney. The current govt doesn't want disney to turn into another twitter free speech platform especially since disney owns ABC national broadcast television, various cable channels, various radio stations, print media subsidiaries, etc.

@Crusherix

Ай бұрын

@@Battleneter You mean the PERFORMANCE based pay package from 2018 that IF he hit all milestones he would still have to hold them for 5 years. Not to mention 73% of shareholders vote yes on it but some judge said "nah i hate elon, this too much". There's no gaming this. If Elon gets it the shareholders gets a ton themselfs. But please stay ignorant, do not look at history of the stock and facts.

They spelled productivity wrong, it's spelled profitization. 2:07

@coltonmccormack8978

Ай бұрын

profitization*

@dubsydubs5234

Ай бұрын

@@coltonmccormack8978 Yea that's what I typed, it must have been the automatic spell check, it couldn't possibly be me that got it wrong. 😇

@tommornini2470

Ай бұрын

They’re essentially the same thing. Is profit bad?

@LuKiSCraft

Ай бұрын

Companies need profits to stay around. I think mother nature would prefer that Tesla remains profitable. Their margins are not that fat anymore.

R those figures the US only or worldwide?

As someone that works in design and construction I have to call BS on 24 days start to finish. Try getting a permit, inspections and utility coordination in 24 days anywhere in the US. On the flip side, 9 to 14 months is way too long. The definition of project start is at requirements intake. And don't tell me how Tesla prefabs their product. Prefab has been and industry standard for over 25 years. Now if you tell me the time to start installation and complete say a 14 charger station with all material and labor available on site in 24 days I will tell you that should be one to two weeks. Tesla had to be bleeding money somewhere on this program or they are looking to industry to do it for them as the margin on it was not worth the effort.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

24 days to install and not they entire process, more like 30 days plus 24.

This happens all the time in defense contracting. A new company can come in and underbid the existing supplier, but without having any employees to do the work. So they will bid 10% lower for the contract and win it. So one Friday they tell the employees "hey guys, theres a new Sheriff in town - if y'all want to come back on Monday you're welcome, we appreciate you, people are our greatest asset! BTW if you do show up Monday you are agreeing to a 15% pay cut and all your vacation days are gone you start over at zero. And you will pay for your own coffee." So the top performers, the 5% who do 33% of the total job - they get pissed, they always have offers outstanding just because of their reputation, they just go take one of them and get a pay raise. The 70% of the office who does average work, they come back and eat the pay cut but are pissed and start circulating resumes. So over 6 months or so they all leave and now no one knows how to do the job. Then the remaining few, the least effective people, the guys who are nice but need someone to hold their hand for every task, they get pissed, but they suck it up cause they cant find another job. So end result - government pays 10% less than they used, but get 60% less production for the money, and there is no one there with the experience to fix the unusual, complicated problems that come along.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

Same will happen to Elon

"One" is singular. "One accessory" is singular. "One of two accessories" is singular. "One of these accessories" is singular. "One of these accessories are..." strips the paint off your car and makes it turn into a little pile of rust on the floor right there in front of you. Or doesn't. But it shure tries.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

One asshole owner is singular

I fully agree. It's even in his Walter's book stating how this isn't something new and elon's done it before and other CEOs but since he is in the spotlight all the time it's big news. Stating rule of thumb to help areas flourish you need to wipe the Slate clean and then higher 10% back and what she did with Twitter which is now performing at optimal level what's 10%( Elan stating he could even do less). What's saying what happened with Past Times and also Twitter I can see why he would make this move, common sense. A friend of mine that owns a business of 26 people just did the same thing, and result the product took 2 weeks and 26 people, then had a revelation, fired everyone and brought back five people and now it takes 5 - 7 days for the same exact process.

Wow! a 24 day process is taking 9 to 14 months?! I would have fired the whole team too. Sorry, R. T. You were not getting the job done.

@toriless

Ай бұрын

It should take 2 or 3 days like with a home charger.

@surferdude4487

Ай бұрын

@@toriless It's not as simple as a home charger. Those super-chargers require some serious hydro to work. Then there's the matter of building permits. But I would think that a competent team would learn the bylaws and know exactly how to get it done. That is their job.

I think Niccolò Machiavelli's book 'The Prince' recommends getting bad stuff done quickly rather than stretch it out, with the thinking that although people may dislike thd bad stuff happening (the lay offs) at least once done , they can forget about and carry on with normal life. Rather than live in fear of further bad stuff occurring in the future. He recommends good things to be stretched out over time, as people soon get used to improved conditions and want more

The large firing is all part of Elon's strategic moves for his company to be profitable and maintain the edge. I believe in Japan it's called KAIZEN model, where they streamline and remove all the inefficiencies in a business process. This wasn't the first large firing, and will not be the last. Would love to see Elon be President and run government like a business.

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

He'd fit right in as a lying fraud taxpayer ripoff extraordinaire. Elon's fumbling his way through spending much more taxpayer and investor money than he is delivering in product. He'd be no where without the massive taxpayer input that we will never see a return on.

The failure of the Federal government to treat Tesla fairly in the latest grants probably pissed Elon off too. As well there has been the way some states have treated business property with increased rates ,taxes and paperwork. Why would you build charge stations only to treated as a government cash cow and held hostage for providing a service,

@singed8853

Ай бұрын

Tesla is making bank off the government. I don’t understand where this anger you are talking about would come from.

Why don't Tesla just oursource that part of the business (e.g. to Chargepoint)?

While I understand " doing what needs to be done ". I wonder how Elon would feel if the board fired him. 🤔 why is it that too often, good people are treated like numbers, and not held in value, while some lazy , or otherwise crap people are not ?

There solar install time takes just as long. Inefficient.

So the supercharger business of Tesla has been running poorly over the past year+? I never heard anything reported about that here or elsewhere.

Originally Tesla HAD to install the Superchargers to support Tesla and their owners. With EVERY automobile manufacturer switching to the NACs charger it is not Tesla's responsibility to provide Superchargers for every electric car in the World. How about BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Kia etc. putting in NAC chargers?

@rogerstarkey5390

Ай бұрын

Plus, as I've said elsewhere, even Tesla got the message that (apparently) there would be thousands of vehicles from other brands being built with the NACS connector and compatible with the Tesla network, that was incentive to ramp. Surely plans were "scaled to fit the requirement". Let's say for the sake of argument there were projected to be .... 500,000 "other brand" vehicles expected, plus 250,000 Tesla's, and Tesla calculated that ... 20,000 chargers (guess) would both serve those vehicles and be profitable. . Then 4 months after Ford said "We're in!!!" First Ford, then others started pulling back. Suddenly, Tesla is building units that may only get 20% of expected use. That might make the whole network unprofitable. . Elon crunches the numbers and realises that the existing numbers, plus projected upgrades and jobs in progress fit the immediate requirement. . Next question? WHY did Tesla Management not see the data, and if they did, why wasn't action taken? (Including talking to him) . Seems likely to me.

@jamesthompson7282

Ай бұрын

@@rogerstarkey5390 Pure speculation, but yeah: seems plausible. Which case, entirely justifiable. But Elon has followed up with announcements Tesla's Supercharger network growth will continue pretty much unabated, which undercuts this argument. And the message it sends to employees - even if unintended - is incredibly bad for them, and for Tesla. I find your argument persuasive But if it's correct - & I suspect it is - there's still the problem of the message it sends. This will cost Tesla strategic assets, important people. It's one more instance of Elon being ignorant of how he affects other people. So maybe he wasn't just a jerk, but he still looks like he was a jerk. I WANT Elon as CEO! But he rarely acts like one. And his behaviour risks his hold on the role, and his control of the firm. He's his own worst enemy. It's WAR & He doesn't get it Wall Street investment management funds AND the media AND significant parts of the government: they've declared WAR on Elon. They'll be underhanded, conniving, ruthless & crooked. But they'll bring him down. And he keeps giving them ammunition & opportunity to do it. Sheesh it's a wild ride with this firm...

@gwenandersen

Ай бұрын

As a Tesla investor, I liked the idea of Tesla owning all the stations and having them as a wonderful income stream.

@lagrangewei

Ай бұрын

it is dumb. when Sony decided to stop making their own chip for Playstation, they didn't just fire everyone, they use those engineer to trade for better price with AMD, AMD would sell Sony the chip they need and take over the IP and staff of the computer hardware division. Sony end up with major cost cutting no one is left out in the dried, and AMD has a bunch of new toys to play with. the fact that there is demand for EV chargers mean it would make great sense to spinoff the division to another company. providing Tesla with an alliance and keeping Tesla center to the EV network. it is stupid to just abandon the business.

@incawarrior5470

Ай бұрын

Yes, lord Musk never does wrong. Got it.

Thank you for clearing the air on why the supercharger team were fired. I have worked on development teams and sooner or later you will reach a point where the design works, and you are basically just adding updates. What seems to have happened with the supercharger team is they realised they had hit an end point so created layers of bureaucracy to protect their jobs. I dare say Elon saw through all the BS and realised the only way to fix this problem was to scrap the team and rebuild it from those staff that held relevance going forwards.

Example of the Musk decision. I live in Adelaide (1,3M population). Tesla sales are skyrocketing last 2 years. So we have one (1) SC side with 4 V3 stacks. Most of the time busy. Just this week two additional sides should have been built, but they were scrapped because of Elon's chaos. Most of the Tesla owners in South Australia are extremely disappointed.

Robotaxi can not use the superchargers and Tesla has bought a wireless charging company. When the lady, head of charging, refused to fire the required number of employees Elon fired everyone and now is hiring many of them back including that lady.

all this could have been said in 1-2minutes!

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

Typical fanboy hype, lies and exaggerations.

I bought my Model Y one year ago. While reviewing EVs from different a manufacturers, the Tesla was #3 on my list. I didn’t like the design of the Model Y and didn’t like the interface relying on the center screen for practically everything. I could care less about full self driving. I bought the car SOLELY because of the SuperCharger network. Slowing SuperCharger Installations was a gut punch since I really anticipated a rapidly expanding network based on what Musk had said previously. I now know to never trust what Elon says but instead watch what he does. I’m now convinced the EVs have become less a priority tor Tesla and their focus is on AI and Robotaxi, neither of which I care about. I’ll be in the market for a second EV in a year or two since my wife’s car is getting old with more frequent repairs - and my next EV purchase will definitely NOT be a Tesla. Just too much drama and uncertainty for me.

Your company relies on a schenckter valve modulator for the manufacturing process to occur. Bill is the only person in the company with the required skills to maintain and repair the schenckter valve modulator. In panic, Elmer Mush, the CEO decides that in order for the company to be viable he needs to slash costs. Elmer isn’t the best at management, so he decides he can save a lot of money if he doesn’t have to pay the employees in Bill’s department, including Bill. 3 days later the schenkter valve modulator breaks. Frantically, Elmer demands the valve be repaired and production start back up. Unfortunately, Bill is no longer working for Elmer. Elmer, again in a panic, decides he needs to bring back a few of the people in Bill’s department, including Bill. What does Elmer do if Bill doesn’t come back? What does he do if Bill does come back but does so with a changed attitude and no longer sees the value to himself of being a “hardcore” employee for Elmer when Elmer doesn’t reciprocate or reward this mentality?

Needed to lay off just one more person

@tommornini2470

Ай бұрын

And who would that be?

@davidsoom1551

Ай бұрын

@@tommornini2470 Duh!

@tommornini2470

Ай бұрын

@@davidsoom1551 The best CEO of all time? 🤷‍♂️

No pain no gain!! Sucks for those that got let go but we need Supercharger installations to speed up. Can’t really travel in northern BC yet. McBride and Chetwynd and Smithers and Terrace and Fort St John all NEED Tesla Superchargers if you want EV adoption here.

@eyesuckle

Ай бұрын

Even here in Vancouver, it seems there are very few Tesla chargers (despite there being _so_ many Teslas!). If Tesla wants ownership of their vehicles to spread beyond people who own detached houses they're going to have to install more public charging stations in both rural and urban areas.