- Tesla has laid off workers who only started the company months or even weeks ago.
- An intern was terminated his full-time offer, while a recruiter was released after just two weeks.
- One manager said Tesla threatened to cut medical insurance if he turned down the compensation package.
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Tesla workers who started work just months or even weeks ago have been laid off, while others have had their offers withdrawn as the company begins to impose cuts announced by Elon Musk in early June. .
Insider found a number of posts from Tesla employees who said they had been fired as part of the cut, while others had their job offers canceled.
Paul Brotherton, a senior project manager who had only just started in January, told Insider, “I was very surprised when I was told they were letting me go. As a manager, I had the impression that my position was secure.”
When asked how Tesla had decided what roles he should cut, he said, “They said the layoffs were based on performance reviews, but that’s a lie because I had only been at Tesla for 5 months and I still hadn’t set performance targets or a performance review. I asked what metrics they used and they refused to tell me. “
“The process was definitely not fair because they never gave me the equipment I asked for.”
Brotherton said the whole process was very cold: “My manager didn’t look at me or shake my hand when he said goodbye to me.”
He added that “the dismissal package was very unfair, as they basically force you to accept threatening to cut off health insurance.”
Iain Abshier, who was part of the recruiting team, said in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday: “Damn, talk about a punch. On Friday afternoon I was included in Tesla’s layoffs after just two weeks of work “.
Robert Belovodsky received his offer of a job as a manufacturing control development engineer, “he said.” The timing of the situation is also unfortunate, as it was due to begin in early August. “
In early June, Musk told Tesla executives to stop all hiring because he had a “very bad feeling” about the economy and needed to cut 10 percent of the company’s workforce. However, he later tweeted that it would increase the number of employees, but the number of employees would not increase.
Mansi Chandresha started at Tesla in February as a data analyst and posted on LinkedIn after learning it had been cut: “I’ve been trying to gather the news that my position with Tesla was terminated.” .
However, he added: “I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a fantastic team.”
Chandresha said she was urgently looking for a new role before her student visa expired in late July.
Two former employees are suing the company alleging that the electric car manufacturer violated federal law by firing hundreds of employees with little notice.
John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield, who filed the lawsuit, said at least 500 of their coworkers in Nevada lost their jobs at about the same time, the document shows.
Insider found at least 11 more workers whose jobs had been cut. It is likely that more will suffer a similar fate as Musk said at the Qatar Economic Forum last week that the reduction would take effect over the next three months.