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Elon Musk Rehiring Supercharger Team

29 points by joe_the_user 2y ago

jqpabc123 2y ago
So it's management by trial and error?
- datavirtue 2y ago
  It took you this long to ask?
psunavy03 2y ago
The whole "cut deep and then replace 10 percent of what you cut" philosophy works great for parts. Kind of toxic to do to human beings.
- xenospn 2y ago
  “Kind of”?
m463 2y ago
> That started with Max de Zegher, who was an executive under the previous head of Supercharging, Rebecca Tinucci. (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.) Wonder what all these re-hired employees think of the company now? Is this statement somehow a way for them to save face?
mrKola 2y ago
And this is how you get a promotion.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  Who's the "you" in this scenario?
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cedws 2y ago
Is there a reason he keeps doing this? Is it some kind of loyalty test, as if to select only the ones that care that care enough to come back? Shit test? Negging?
- throwaway11460 2y ago
  It's nothing unusual in the corporate world, not some Elon Musk speciality. It's cost and time savings - why spend a lot evaluating everyone when you can simply fire everyone and then evaluate the few who want to stay?
  - akaru 2y ago
    You seem very sure about this.
    - throwaway11460 2y ago
      Yeah, I saw it at few corporates. Came back myself one time, other times my friends/colleagues decided to go back. You can't take it personally, the CEO doesn't know your name, the name of your manager or their manager. It's a nice opportunity to negotiate a better deal for yourself.
      - Zigurd 2y ago
        Why does this sound like normalizing the behavior of an actually harmful person who is running companies that affect political discourse and national defense? Especially with a broad assertion, generalities, and no examples.
        throwaway11460 2y ago
        He's not affecting my local political discourse nor national defense, I am from Europe - you deal with that. What form of examples would you like? It's not really something that would be in the international English speaking news - not even municipal news, it's just normal life, except when Musk does it to a bunch of overpaid engineers apparently. The rest of us don't matter that much to anybody. Don't tell me you have never heard about a company closing a branch or a department, I have very hard time believing that. I can't believe nobody around you - family, friends, colleagues - ever experienced that. If it's true, you live in a social bubble that's very distant from what the average person experiences. Or alternatively, all that talk about EU vs US job safety is the exact opposite of reality and US jobs are incredibly safe - but I don't really think so.
FrankWilhoit 2y ago
No one with any self-respect would submit to this, which, in turn, proves that its only purpose is to degrade the individuals.
- psunavy03 2y ago
  It's equally possible that it's just Musk being Musk and making snap decisions he has to walk back.
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ChrisArchitect 2y ago
[dupe] Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-rehires-some-supercharger-workers-weeks-after-musk-s-culling https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-reh... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347029)

29 points by joe_the_user 2y ago

jqpabc123 2y ago

So it's management by trial and error?

datavirtue 2y ago
It took you this long to ask?

psunavy03 2y ago

The whole "cut deep and then replace 10 percent of what you cut" philosophy works great for parts. Kind of toxic to do to human beings.

xenospn 2y ago
“Kind of”?

m463 2y ago

> That started with Max de Zegher, who was an executive under the previous head of Supercharging, Rebecca Tinucci. (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.) Wonder what all these re-hired employees think of the company now? Is this statement somehow a way for them to save face?

mrKola 2y ago

And this is how you get a promotion.

pavel_lishin 2y ago
Who's the "you" in this scenario?

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cedws 2y ago

Is there a reason he keeps doing this? Is it some kind of loyalty test, as if to select only the ones that care that care enough to come back? Shit test? Negging?

throwaway11460 2y ago
It's nothing unusual in the corporate world, not some Elon Musk speciality. It's cost and time savings - why spend a lot evaluating everyone when you can simply fire everyone and then evaluate the few who want to stay?
- akaru 2y ago
  You seem very sure about this.
  - throwaway11460 2y ago
    Yeah, I saw it at few corporates. Came back myself one time, other times my friends/colleagues decided to go back. You can't take it personally, the CEO doesn't know your name, the name of your manager or their manager. It's a nice opportunity to negotiate a better deal for yourself.
    - Zigurd 2y ago
      Why does this sound like normalizing the behavior of an actually harmful person who is running companies that affect political discourse and national defense? Especially with a broad assertion, generalities, and no examples.
      - throwaway11460 2y ago
        He's not affecting my local political discourse nor national defense, I am from Europe - you deal with that. What form of examples would you like? It's not really something that would be in the international English speaking news - not even municipal news, it's just normal life, except when Musk does it to a bunch of overpaid engineers apparently. The rest of us don't matter that much to anybody. Don't tell me you have never heard about a company closing a branch or a department, I have very hard time believing that. I can't believe nobody around you - family, friends, colleagues - ever experienced that. If it's true, you live in a social bubble that's very distant from what the average person experiences. Or alternatively, all that talk about EU vs US job safety is the exact opposite of reality and US jobs are incredibly safe - but I don't really think so.

FrankWilhoit 2y ago

No one with any self-respect would submit to this, which, in turn, proves that its only purpose is to degrade the individuals.

psunavy03 2y ago
It's equally possible that it's just Musk being Musk and making snap decisions he has to walk back.

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ChrisArchitect 2y ago

[dupe] Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-rehires-some-supercharger-workers-weeks-after-musk-s-culling https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-reh... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347029)