Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

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Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
Reuters | Published — Saturday 14 October 2017

US labor board files complaint against Tesla over workers’ rights
BENGALURU: Luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla fired about 400 employees this week, including associates, team leaders and supervisors, a former employee told Reuters on Friday.
The dismissals were a result of a company-wide annual review, Tesla said in an emailed statement, without confirming the number of employees leaving the company.
“It’s about 400 people ranging from associates to team leaders to supervisors. We don’t know how high up it went,” said the former employee, who worked on the assembly line and did not want to be identified.
Though Tesla cited performance as the reason for the firings, the source told Reuters he was fired in spite of never having been given a bad review.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said earlier in the month that “production bottlenecks” had left Tesla behind its planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 mass-market sedan.
The company delivered 220 Model 3 sedans and produced 260 during the third quarter. In July, it began production of the Model 3, which starts at $35,000 — half the starting price of the Model S.
TRANSPORT RETAIL TESLA US

 

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Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
Reuters | Published — Saturday 14 October 2017

US labor board files complaint against Tesla over workers’ rights
BENGALURU: Luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla fired about 400 employees this week, including associates, team leaders and supervisors, a former employee told Reuters on Friday.
The dismissals were a result of a company-wide annual review, Tesla said in an emailed statement, without confirming the number of employees leaving the company.
“It’s about 400 people ranging from associates to team leaders to supervisors. We don’t know how high up it went,” said the former employee, who worked on the assembly line and did not want to be identified.
Though Tesla cited performance as the reason for the firings, the source told Reuters he was fired in spite of never having been given a bad review.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said earlier in the month that “production bottlenecks” had left Tesla behind its planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 mass-market sedan.
The company delivered 220 Model 3 sedans and produced 260 during the third quarter. In July, it began production of the Model 3, which starts at $35,000 — half the starting price of the Model S.
TRANSPORT RETAIL TESLA US

Tesla has over 33,000 employees. So that's only a few percent. That's a crazy number for a small car company.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.01cbd384cd25

Tesla fires hundreds of workers as part of annual reviews

Tesla Motors has fired hundreds of workers after completing its annual performance reviews, even though the automaker is trying to ramp up production to fill orders for its new Model 3 sedan.

The Palo Alto, California-based company confirmed the cuts in a Saturday statement, but didn’t disclose how many of its 33,000 workers were jettisoned. The San Jose Mercury News interviewed multiple former and current Tesla employees who estimated 400 to 700 workers lost their jobs.

Tesla is under pressure to deliver its Model 3 sedan to a waiting list of more than 450,000 customers. The company so far has been lagging its own production targets after making just 260 of the vehicles in its last quarter.

Despite the mass firings, Tesla is still looking to hire hundreds more workers.

 

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Tesla will finally die because the greedy billionaire has no respect for the worker's rights and competition is starting to get hot with Chinese car manufacturers upping the game with better and cheaper cars and Model 3 (the mainstay of Tesla for its survival).

 

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the 1500 model 3 production mark seemed a little too much. If they were serious about it and they used that number in forecasting then things look kinda bad...