I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Go back with a decent pay bump (obviously he needs them) and with a plan to bolt ASAP. Continue your job search while you collect a higher temporary salary.
Terrible move from Elon as it shows he has no negotiating power.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Since it’s only been a week, a lot of those people are going to come back. But now they’re coming back with updated resumes and a linked in pro subscription. The good folks will be bailing in the coming months, but they’ll stay and work in a half ass way since it’s better than unemployment and cobra. Musk basically insured uncontrolled attrition.
How did this idiot actually manage to ship cars to begin with?
mynachmadarch@kbin.social 5 months ago
He had better handlers and PR team back then so more people thought he was just an eccentric billionaire Playboy inventor and were willing to do the dirty work needed to make it happen.
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
All his pedo calling and right wing crazy got online when he fired them.
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think he was genuinely better back then too.
Something broke 4 or so years ago and has been getting progressively worse.
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
He didn't, he bought in to a company that was already set on doing it.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My point being, development of the consumer cars didn’t really kick off instill after Tarpenning and Eberhard left, and I don’t see how this current iteration of Musk would’ve pulled that off. I feel like this iteration of Musk would’ve fucked up Telsa spectacularly.
When the roadster shipped in 2008, that company could only hand make a few hundred cars a year and they didn’t even know how to make their own chassis, seats, infotainment software, etc. They had powertrain tech, and that’s about it.
The vast majority of the consumer product development and manufacturing tech was built after the OG founders left.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
Yep. Or they’ll stay and do no work at all and count on it taking a long while for anyone to even notice.
it certainly isn’t competent management they’re working for.