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Elon Musk Rehiring Supercharger Team

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29 pointsjoe_the_user18 comments

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.

“Kind of”?

So it's management by trial and error?

It took you this long to ask?

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?

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?

You seem very sure about this.

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.

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.

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.

Platforming parties like afd, and politicians like Victor Orban affects the security of Europe. That's specific and concrete.

On the other hand even the ham fisted actions of Boeing trying to build their most complicated airplane with inexperienced workers in an anti-union state isn't spastic and random. They had a plan. It might be a bad plan but it was a plan. Elon just rage deleted a department.

Parties like AfD still have their place on national TV and regional news, just as Orban does. I don't agree with them but I don't think they should necessarily be banned from Twitter if they still have the right to be on TV and radio.

> 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?

[dupe]

Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-reh...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347029)

And this is how you get a promotion.

Who's the "you" in this scenario?

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

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

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