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Supercharger team sacked?
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I don't think the sex of the employee had anything to do with it, or you'd absolutely hope not. Apparently she reported into Drew who was fired earlier so possible Elon didn't hire her or have to speak to her all that often.
The $500m he claims for Supercharger expansions is also being reported that it's around 77% I think it was less than what they'd be spending to keep up with the rate of expansion they've done up to this point. So seems the slower expansion rate Elon originally tweeted is accurate and his follow on tweet that mentions what sounds like a lot of money to most of us isn't nearly enough money to keep growing at the same pace.
I hope for the guys who had to abandon a bit of self-respect to go back working for him after being fired that they are at least negotiating a sweet re-hiring bonus and package...It must be exhausting simping for Elon Musk
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them
Last week the CEO said Tesla will spend $500 million expanding the charger network.arstechnica.com
Indeed it's unlikely though there was mention from some competitors that they would try to pick up some staff so maybe they didn't have to suffer the not stellar job market like most.
Sounds like a horrendous way to live your life! As someone who’s only ever experienced employment in the NHS, the concept of even performance management is alien to most of my peers, redundancies is pretty much unheard off!!!
Some hate performance management, but done well it’s often a motivator for the average or better performer. I imagine you’ve come across some who you’d gladly see the back of as not everybody in any organisation, especially the size of the NHS, are going to be doing a good let alone great job. You need to find and fire those without the average hard working person feeling threatened, and those that are doing a good job won’t feel like they’re carrying the deadwood.
Yes but the money is normally better, AKA look at his cars
I cannot really complain though, given I couldn't speak a word of English aged 9 when we first arrived in the UK and yesterday the tilers had just finished grouting around 40sq meter of hallway space, we than had another BBQ in the garden 'shed' instead of getting takeaway......On more Tesla related news, it just happens in the last 2 weeks I've used 4 different SC sites, none of them existed when we first bought our car.
The SC network is what enables us to own our EV with no limit on personal freedom to travel, not investing in expansion of the SC is utter madness, we have to see just how much rolling back Musk is actually doing. I cannot see my self owing any EV if the SC network goes the way of the Electric Highway.
Looks lovely mate, exactly the kind of thing I want to have in a couple of years.I cannot really complain though, given I couldn't speak a word of English aged 9 when we first arrived in the UK and yesterday the tilers had just finished grouting around 40sq meter of hallway space, we than had another BBQ in the garden 'shed' instead of getting takeaway......On more Tesla related news, it just happens in the last 2 weeks I've used 4 different SC sites, none of them existed when we first bought our car.
The SC network is what enables us to own our EV with no limit on personal freedom to travel, not investing in expansion of the SC is utter madness, we have to see just how much rolling back Musk is actually doing. I cannot see my self owing any EV if the SC network goes the way of the Electric Highway.
I think it's only 80% and the boss who tried to save them is still fired, so now he has a workforce but seemingly nobody to direct them
pdk42
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Did a quick google but couldn’t find anything on this. Mind sharing where you’ve seen it?
Doesn’t surprise me though…
There is an interesting article in cleantechnica about Sponge, camels and supercharger team.
It is an interesting insight to how big things get done and the authors view is of the SC teams are approaching zero technical or engineering risks. There are logistical challenges, regulatory hurdles, contractor screw-ups, incompetent people and the like, but virtually nothing that would keep a creative innovator entertained for more than a day every week or four in that job. SC team is at that stage.
He goes on to say, The Supercharger business is a mature, steady state operational business. It’s growing rapidly still, but it’s deploying exactly the same product in highly optimized ways using exactly the same processes and software. It’s dealing with challenges, but the challenges aren’t challenges creative people like, they are filling in city approval forms correctly and getting contractors to show up and put wires in place. They are fulfilling orders in a work management system. The sales people have a standard contract that never changes that they sign with hosts.
The Supercharger team, in this analysis, still had a lot of creative people and likely executives. Lots of these were in senior and operational roles. They were quite probably making it really hard for the operational efficiency and ISO 9000 heads to do their jobs. As bored sponges, they were probably creating problems within the Tesla organization instead of delivering Superchargers as effectively, efficiently and cheaply as possible.
Of Camels, Sponges, & Tesla's Supercharging Team Firing - CleanTechnica
The Supercharger kerfuffle should be a clear wakeup call to Teslaâs Board that the organization is in a transition that needs a new quarterback.
cleantechnica.com
These are the authors views I just found it an interesting read than the sexiest view of why Elon fired Tinucci and so on. You may or may not.
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I’m not sure how leaders who can admit mistakes can be seen as weak? Been able to admit and than learn from your mistakes is surely the most powerful personal development any of us have. Though ofcourse Musk will never admit it in public
.Someone who is the CEO of a large company such as Tesla can't get angry and act out, we're not talking about a child here learning boundaries.I’m not sure how leaders who can admit mistakes can be seen as weak? Been able to admit and than learn from your mistakes is surely the most powerful personal development any of us have. Though ofcourse Musk will never admit it in public
I've not seen it reported elsewhere yet so not sure it's even a thing.
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