Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants

Stealing this from a comment on the restera threaad

Internally employees left at Tesla are calling this the "Snap". My friend was building over 10 new sites and breaking ground on 3 others. Contractors are getting fucked and have no one to contact. Overnight 100's of sites with 100's of contractors, design companies and suppliers working on them are just in limbo with not a single person from Tesla reaching out to them and their contact laid off. Lots of layoffs are going to be tied to this.

Not only does this affect the building of new sites there's now not a single employee that can perform maintenance at any of these locations.

This is going to cascade across many companies and industries. Because this is basically taking a massive infrastructure effort and suddenly cutting off the management and production of specialized hardware.

And, tinfoil, but this very much feels like an attempt to steal the election for republicans. Because this is going to impact the infrastructure efforts of the Biden administration AND cause a lot of layoffs among blue collar workers when they can't send invoices or get paid because everyone they knew got fired. And you can bet there will be a social media shitstorm over "Biden is trying to steal money from my company" if there is any attempt to recoup the money that is being put into a giant reward package for musk.

Imagine taking your most strategic asset, and an industry leading product, then doing this to it.

Musk is this generation’s Howard Hughes. He was always eccentric and weird, but he’s aggressively sliding into his compulsions like Hughes did.

Hughes ended up locked away, in a dark penthouse, getting yearly fingernail cuts, with a collection of urine filled bottles.

This is why I fucking hate government grants to corporations. These assholes never put in safeguards to actually force these jackass companies to actually use it as intended.

Maybe the Fed should take the money back

Incredibly speculative, but this could also be Elon’s Saudi investors’ plan to blow up the EV market in America. If the charging infrastructure becomes unreliable, it kills the entire market.

The “Boring Company” killed light rail in several cities with empty promises. The Saudis bailed out his purchase of Twitter once.

Again speculative, but Elon and the Saudis working together checks a lot of boxes.

Such a "clever businessman." Embezelling $17 million in taxpayer dollars to enrich himself.

Rumor has it that this is a temper tantrum after a competitor unveiled 10 minute charging technology.

This shit can destroy companies and tank its value

Leaving hundreds of contacts in limbo with no resolution has the potential to cost more than $17 million in legal fees and termination clauses.

Where the fuck is the board of directors and why are none of the shareholders revolting?

Such a genius move. Us ordinary minds cannot comprehend this.

I'm HAPPY my Tax Dollars went to Laying People Off INSTEAD of feeding Starving American Children!

Musk is such a welfare queen.

Had a friend turn down 4 internships when they got one at Tesla, and now, just as the summers coming up, they recinded a bunch of internship offers.

But they’re crazy, after all that’s gone down w Elon they just bought a Model 3

Why can't we seize this cunt's assets? He plays states, the Fed.. wtf?

No executive deserves the kind of money and power he is demanding. The workers deserve it. Executive positions must become democratically elected from within the workforce, exclusively, modestly compensated, with checks and balances, for limited terms representing the company workforce.

This is our world he's fucking with.

I haven’t seen anyone actually describe what this “team” is.

Tesla’s PR teams said that they’re still expanding the network, but at a slower pace. If that’s the case, I assume this mostly guts the product and program management folks, and the goal is to consolidate this department with a related department.

Does anyone actually have details about the full scope of layoffs and the scope of who remains?

To the surprise of literally no one.

There are two things Tesla and Elon has done well. Making EVs mainstream and cool. And the super charger network. Everything else. Bleh

Who cares it's boring stop posting it