Tesla employees reveal how they were fired

Not enough indication of what the meeting is about, and they'll be surprised. Give them too much indication and their anxiety will balloon.

I've been on the receiving end of this as an employer in a really small business. e.g., a keystone employee was leaving and with awkward timing. There's no brilliant way to do it.

If you are on commission and the tail payment is not paid because they sacked you without cause, I would be surprised if the payment was not still due. It feels like its a part of the conditions of employment you can't avoid by firing somebody simply to downsize.

Doubtless some truly shitty employment law loophole means this assumptive, pathetic "but thats unreasonable" idea is wrong, but thats what I'd assume: the work was done for payment on completion, how can it not be paid, if the customer completes? If this was true, then the history of commission selling would be littered with lawsuits leading to some law to clarify.

If its clearly at-risk payment subject to retained employment, thats a huge rip-off, which makes me glad I have never, ever worked on commission.

Musk promises profitability - sale's not picking up, production is far behind, cost of production isn't reducing... the low hanging fruit - employees.

I am waiting for how the employees would respond to the increased pressure. If I worked there, I'd have already blasted my resumes months ago.

Given they'll need to refinance and I'd bet the Model 3 sales after reservations are low due to the cheap one not being available yet, the company must've been looking at a financing crunch for a while now.

This is very much a move to clean house so they can do another round.

This seems consistent with the company's statements that they are restructuring to boost profitability, as opposed to a frantic move to conserve a dwindling cash reserve.

Looks like a job well done to me. Minimum amount of fuss and the they got it over with in a day or so. Most people did not see it coming, which means they contained the chaos nicely. Having disgruntled employees panicking ahead of this kind of stuff is very bad for morale. And once it is done, you basically want these people out of your building ASAP. Tesla is not a charity and dragging this out for weeks or months while they went department by department would have been very bad.

Isn't this a good example of something that merits an NLRB complaint?

By the way, shouldnt amp versions automatically have a 'Go to the real page' link on the top or something?

I see a totally absurd version of the page on my 30" monitor. With no obvious way to go to the normal page.

Not even the url has a clear indication where the normal version is. Guess you have to read it from the rel="canonical" link in the source code.