graham

This is great blog post, Tom. And a good point about the power train issue. I hope they get to elaborate on that part of the business soon.

dpeilow

How about this?

Tesla Tastelessly Tosses Their Team : Boy Genius Report

Electric Car: Tesla Lays off 90% of Detroit Staff in Douchey Way

vfx

More dazzling PR.

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malcolm

Thanks for the point about the powertrain side of the business Tom. It is a shame that the original T.E.G. was a great idea before it's time.

I agree. History tends to gloss over the fact that many great achievements are accomplished by difficult individuals.

We want to have our cake and eat it - we want Tesla to survive and yet we want the company to eschew the hard-nosed practices of American business.

dpeilow

Here's a report that seems to be a distilled version of this whole thread:

BetaNews | Green-vehicle manufacturer Tesla does dirty by its staff

vfx

Breathtaking HR too.

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DaveD

Has anyone seen an article with a substantiated source quoted in it, regarding Tesla's notification of the Michigan staff? I've read all the articles that I can find about this, and so far have only found an "anonymous Telsa source" referenced in one of the articles. I'm not saying that the story being reported is incorrect, but I'd like to see more sources before I take these articles/blogs at face value.

graham

I have not seen anything more substantial. Every report seems to refer that one original report.

I did talk to some Tesla employees (in California) late Wed night. They told me there was to be a big company meeting on Thursday morning where Elon was supposed to better detail the plans for the future. I bet a lot of people got officially informed then or soon thereafter.

mittelhauser

I have no details on the handling of the MI office but the California Tesla folks I talked to in the last two days actually thought that this layoff was handled better than the last one. They appreciated that it was all done in one fell swoop upfront rather than having a long stretch of days/weeks where everybody was going in and not sure if they were going to find a pink slip.

TEG

This old article (January 2008) had been rather critical of what happened before.

Really unfortunate to see more of this. We all want to see them GROW and prosper not have to "hunker down".