What an atrocious way of treating staff.
It sounds scary, but companies may find what Elon is doing palatable and find it to be a new normal.
Elon is doing it in the most abrasive way, but what Stripe and Lyft have been doing is roughly the same level of action. Elon simply refuses to put lipstick on the pig.
When you hire a team, you have some responsibility for their livelihood (it’s not just money, the contract between the two sides is one of earning a living, to literally survive in the world). They are not just your little StarCraft units that you suddenly point to go in some other direction.
It’s completely inhuman, and this is coming from someone that admires Elon’s achievements. I’m saddened.
And no, it’s not cool to romanticize the retort of “he has the guts to do what has to be done”. No I think not, there’s enough money in the world.
I pray we never become this. It’s like watching a family member fall into drugs, they have become a different person.
Literally anything that shows you remotely care about the situation is better than "You might or might not get an email in the next few days to let you know you're fired"
I know people who went though that and it's very dehumanising and stress inducing