Tesla to cut about 4100 jobs across company
 

Tesla will cut approximately 9 percent of its 46,000-person workforce.

Tesla told employees it will cut about 9 percent of its workforce, trimming mostly salaried positions.

Since the start of the year, Tesla has been adding to its staff and currently employs approximately 46,000 workers. Through this reorganization, it will shed about 4,100 jobs.

In mid-May, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had warned the company was undertaking a "thorough reorganization" and that it would flatten its management structure.

"To be clear, Tesla will still continue to hire outstanding talent in critical roles as we move forward and there is still a significant need for additional production personnel," Musk said in a letter to employees on Tuesday. "I also want to emphasize that we are making this hard decision now so that we never have to do this again."

Tesla has struggled to meet production targets and achieve profitability. It has been burning through billions in cash as it tries to scale up production of its mass market Model 3 sedan. Musk has said he expects Tesla to be profitable and cash flow positive in the third quarter.

A paragraph in Musk's long email to Tesla employees:
MM sez: Tesla was not a for-profit company; instead a pet project for Elon Musk. But now that Tesla is supposed to start operating as a company-for-profit with this Model 3 car... the "dream world" is crashing down upon Musk supporters that weren't being realistic. Oh, trust me... Musk knew all along that this step would eventually need be taken.

Can you post a link to the source of your OP?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/tesl...ny-report.html

this scam is going to come crashing down one day.

Whatever they did, stock price was up ~7% earlier today and up only about 2% now.....

Add on top of that the new production numbers for the Model 3 are going to 30,000 for the quarter over the estimated 20,000.

I am guessing those people are not related to production and more salaried desk positions related to other business units within the organization.

And now it is up 3.5%....probably proof that the people cut were not integral to existing business structures

The stock market usually responds favorably to layoffs, because they cut costs and increase profits, at least in the short term. Of course, Tesla has never had profits, but this has the potential to move them closer to having them. I think Musk said recently they will be profitable in the third quarter. Maybe this is part of the reason he said that. When a company is burning cash like it's firewood, layoffs are good news.

I'm glad I didnt take the job at Tesla last year. :dance:

we could have called you:

Battery Boy!

:dance::dance:

:rofl::rofl:

It has been a .gov funded scam from the start, just like the rest of his businesses.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...531-story.html

Tesla's are popular here. I see them all the time. Would I buy one? Nope, I can't see paying upwards of $80k. Electric mileage is electric mileage and can be had for much cheaper. But maybe I shouldn't apply common sense to something that's also used as a status symbol.

Yup, they are really common. Girl that my wife employed got hired by them a year or two ago, I'm wondering if she'll be asking my wife for a job in the not too distant future...

Or she can join dude that camps out under the 101 overpass at Van Nuys. :D

This is a tragedy of epic proportions. What will we do? Can't even spend $120,000 on a car nowadays.

I live a few miles from the Fremont plant so we started seeing them early on. I like them, we checked them out but never crunched the #'s of electricity to charge it vs gas. Another factor was distance on a charge. They are expensive so we went conventional gas at that time. I really liked the instant torque.

Kind of a fun vid of the instant torque in action...:D :datawiz:

I never applied common sense to buying a Corvette.:lol:

You wouldn't.

:rimshot:

:D

You can get the Model 3 for ~35k

Pics of girl? Pics of wife? Pics of girl and wife? Pics of girl doing... er, nevermind.

:D

That's a lot of stripper for $35k. :yesnod:

I really don't like the duckface on these cars. :barf: