May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.
After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.
The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.
I don’t feel like I learned anything new from this “inside story”. Just another drop in the bucket of evidence that that " pedo guy" guy ought to go away.
Have to agree, no insight as to what the plan is, no deeper justification. Not even an interview with any of the people affected
For me it gave concrete facts to what we already expected, what was alluded to. Same story, more solid foundation
Yah that’s fair, and honestly important
It made me realize that I’m still somehow giving that guy too much benefit of the doubt because I thought those layoffs would at least be strategic instead of just another tantrum because of a small amount of resistance to what he wanted to do.