The REAL story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger team

Tesla did not need to let anyone go from this productive and successful team. That layoff could save the company a small number of millions per year, meanwhile Musk is demanding a $56 billion pay package. He could have instead demanded a $55.9 billion pay package and kept most of this very successful team. The “need” For a headcount reduction in the Supercharger team is a strawman argument.

As long as the whole company is subject to the whims of someone who continues to become more and more erratic, it is impossible to rely on their products or services.

I can accept that irreconcilable differences between Musk and the Supercharger division head resulted in her firing, but a sensible CEO would just replace that fired department head with someone more compliant, not fire the whole department only to then realize the blunder and rehire them! What unnecessary chaos and stress for the entire company.

they got discharged for not recharging

Far bigger guesses than the "pretty wide range of 15-20%" are all the excuses you're manufacturing from the first breath to excuse Musk's actions and belittle the information provided by others (others that were there unlike yourself). "Elon didn't want to do that at first" "the shade of the story", "there is CLEARLY some emotion from these are former members of Tesla so you have to read into what they're saying" " i don't believe these staff know that 15-20% were cut, it sounds like a guess to me", "nobody knows the context of the Tinucci-Musk meeting" (we do know HIS action, and this is the best explanation anyone has offered). YOU KNOW NONE of these things. Absolutely NONE. You're making them up to excuse Musk's outrageous, petulant retaliation against an entire group of blameless employees becuase his edict was questioned by one person, probably when his Ketamine was not dialed in. (Now My Ketamine reference is also a supposition, but one with far more circumstantial evidence than the cosdswallop you just served up to whitewash Musk's dbaggery). You just ploughed right into this video with one aim, to cover for Musk. That's poor! Instead of asking US for facts, why not get your own first instead of giving us a bunch of "It sounds like" and " I don't believe" and "there is clearly emotion" and "Elon didn't want to". It's not OUR job to counter your complete (biased) assumptions, it's yours to make videos based in some facts/research.

Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger team: "he's a genius". Elon Musk rehires Supercharger team: "See.. I told you, he's a genius".

You really give Elon Musk EVERY benefit of the doubt. That's very charitable of you.

How to wreck the morale of an entire work force. I wouldn't let Elon near employees.

This sounds like what he did at Twitter. My training in management taught me that when you have a team that performs, you do everything you can to keep them. This looks impulsive. If there is one thing Tesla has done to beat everyone, it's building a charging network. Nobody but nobody does it better. Hiring people people back after they have been fired puts those people on an emotional roller coaster. However, while Musk might be a technology genius, he doesn't demonstrate much competence in working with people. What he has done is to send a chill throughout the company and a message to everyone, you are expendable and the only one that matters here is Elon Musk.

Baglino suddenly resigns-Musk fires team en mass and comments on ''loyalty''-Go figure!

The report does not send a positive signal to the markets. These negative issues are happening weekly like a drumbeat. Whether the Tesla board can influence him to put someone else in charge, like SpaceX could prove to be the only solution.

Morale at Tesla has to suck right now

Expecting loyalty from an employee while in turn giving none back is the very definition grandiose narcissism.

E M is melting down like a snowman in spring.

It's hard to buy a home if you're depending on corporate politics. If I were laid off and called to be rehired, I would demand double pay or not return.

Unions are a product of bad Management… Employee want to give loyalty to a company that is loyal back. When Management makes wild swings in layoffs…it creates Fear and impact productivity and loyalty

Uh-huh. Because gutting the team at the heart of your core competency is such a great business decision. And then forcing a team in a completely different skillset to pick up the load is also a really great business decision. Said no one ever.

Trust in business is key. When Elon fired the team rolling out Tesla's charging infrastructure he affected not only the business partners installing the stations but also the legacy car makers who have planed to adopt the NACS charge ports for their own EVs. These other EVs would have added a notable revenues for the entire North American charging system. It will likely affect the adoption of EVs by some consumers who have so far withheld from making the switch because the existing non Tesla charging system is so unreliable. Losing trust on this scale is a "dumbass" move and Tesla will likely take time to overcome.

Short fuse, thin skin, we can guess what happened in the meeting.

Being someone that busted their ass for a large corporation, then getting laid off the first time profits didn’t look great, while executives made millions. I can say I will be buying an electric vehicle but it won’t be from a company Musk owns.