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Elon Musk Rehires Entire Supercharger Team After Halting Development by Firing Them - Glass Almanac

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Elon Musk Rehires Entire Supercharger Team After Halting Development by Firing Them - Glass Almanac

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This story is 7 months old, the team was rehired back in may. Why is this story popping up again as if it's new?
Less than a week after the layoffs, Tesla began rehiring members of the Supercharger team, signaling a quick reversal of the initial decision.
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/
May 16, 2024 12:12 AM GMT+2Updated 7 months ago
- Its to reinforce this egghead is not special. He just proclaimed no one has more manufacturing knowledge than he does. Sure, thats why you fire whole teams just to rehire them.
  
  I 100% agree on that, Musk is not special, and Tesla isn't either anymore. The only thing special about Musk is an exaggerated ego, loads of privileges, and being lucky to grab the right opportunity twice.
  First with PayPal, and then with Tesla. Everything else is running at losses. With PayPal he was actually thrown out for being incompetent!
  As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And being born filthy rich as a son to an owner of an emerald mine. The great thing is you don't have to worry much about failing. Your life is secure even if you fail multiple times. Everything is just a game to those people.
Truly, the king of efficiency. Dumbass.
At least he's living by his own principle on this one:
If you’re not adding back at least 10% of what you remove, you’re not removing enough.
It's not a "surprising turn of events" as the article claims. Elon Musk is a fucking moron with money he did nothing to earn but threaten people. He threatened and fired an entire team, and LO, they were actually doing their jobs and he was mad because he continues to over promise on shit other people are doing.
More specific to this case: self-driving on cameras alone without depth perception is not possible now-if at all. That's why Waymo was first to multiple markets with lidar systems, and their cars are not killing people, but just stupid and inefficient.
Musk’s abrupt firing of the team initially seemed like a display of power—a way to assert control and show he could make tough decisions in the face of investor pressure.
This is justification for wrecking 500 employee's lives? So he could show he's a tough business boy? In order to reassure people who've gotten over 50% returns for a decade? In a company that's "worth" more than the GDP of Saudi Arabia?
Investor confidence is so important to Musk because he knows Tesla is a bubble.
- I’m pretty sure it was mainly to get rid of the exec that was leading the supercharger team because from what I remember she was doing a really good job and didn’t listen to him when he told her to lay people off or something. She was the reason NACS became a standard in the US. Really bad call on his end but hey gotta keep the ego big somehow.
Manufacturing genius. Absolute clairvoyant in terms of business and efficiency.
The article is giving Elmo far too much credit in there, and downplaying the long-term effect. If I were looking at making my EVs compatible with their system, I would be scrambling for alternatives.

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