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  • Elon Musk wanted Tesla to reduce its workforce by one-fifth, Bloomberg reported.
  • Musk wanted the layoffs to match the drop in quarterly vehicle deliveries. 
  • Tesla delivered 386,810 cars in the first quarter of 2024, a 20.1% drop from the last quarter.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at one point wanted the EV giant to trim its workforce by 20%, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The reduction, Musk reasoned, should match the reduction in vehicle deliveries between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, per Bloomberg.

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If a full fifth of your workforce needs to be sacked, it's clearly a management issue, so let's start at the top.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 6 months ago (4 children)

He needs to fire the idiot in charge of the whole thing. I bet Tesla could make a recovery if he wasn't at its helm, even if he still owned the same amount of shares. Even more so if his ego could handle hiring a replacement that was all too happy to vocally throw him under the bus.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the problem is that it’s such a house of cards. It has no reason to be worth the current stock price which is higher than multiple larger car brands combined. The stock value is based on this legacy idea that Musk will deliver amazing innovation. If he stays, his Twitter bullshit is going to negatively impact the brand and if he leaves, the stock will drop to a realistic valuation based on fundamentals. It’s a bit of a lose/lose.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Long term, the company's biggest value is a charging network. Their cars aren't ahead of the rest of the industry anymore, except maybe in live software updates. Even that's been tainted by updates that make the car good or bad depending on the day of the week. The charging network, though, is only going to have more customers as other companies adopt Tesla's plug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That only applies to the USA in Europe, or at least in Germany and Austria the charging network is not better than the other providers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He gets very mad if you imply or even ask if he should be accountable for any failings of his companies.

And this brain dead idea of his is literally just punishment like he's an ancient slave lord. Like this will motivate the remaining workers to double their output.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I think you're wrong. I think it is like a modern slave lord, which he is accustomed to via the emerald mining.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

He needs to fire the idiot in charge of the whole thing.

Thats not his job. That's the boards job. And yes, that's what they need to do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Naw, their long term fucked by the Cybertruck pr-orders. They can’t reliably manufacture it quickly enough to make good profit on it. Firing 20% of their manufacturing people is likely just gonna make building them harder.

And they have to build like 750k more of them at a rate of less than 100k per year.

Long term fucked by a child’s design of a truck.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Okay, so we need to fire one fifth of Elon Musk. (Instructions unclear. Is a saw involved?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

the top 5th, to be clear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Use a trebuchet, if the other 4/5 goes with the 1/5 he has no-one to blame but his own inability to transsubstantiate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

A barrel of sulphuric acid and a crane, its cleaner and makes disposal simple.