this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] reddig33 60 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’m amazed that the institutional investors are letting Elon continue to slowly destroy Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’m amazed people still want to work there.

[–] ashok36 13 points 7 months ago

At this rate, "want" isn't going to be part of the conversation at all. There's not going to be anyone left...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hence their new project building robotic workers. It's very clear to me what the end game here is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The end game is to scam money out of desperate Tesla fans while pretending that they can build robots that are actually useful.

Don't buy into the musk bullshit. If he could replace everyone with robots he would, but he can't.

[–] Magister 18 points 7 months ago

as long as they make money, they will let him do it

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Amazes me that Musk & the Board of morons at Tesla are actively causing all this obvious damage to the brand while the shareholder voting is happening.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Shareholders like seeing cost cutting.

[–] Passerby6497 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Up until you don't have enough staff to make or sell products.

[–] Wrench 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's tomorrow's problem. Which investors don't give a shit about.

[–] venoft 5 points 7 months ago

Buy high sell low, right?

[–] ManinJustStartHere 1 points 7 months ago

How to join to board of Tesla company?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When the company you work for is describing its future plans as "4th week of job cuts."

That company might be in a death spiral.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Employees create your sales. If there's redundancy in job tasks then firing people can increase profits, but massive layoffs is mainly just reducing output capabilities.

few people to do work = few profits

In the span of a year or two this can increase profits because costs have gone down, but pretty soon the company will run out of its backlog and then profits will tank in a way that can't be recovered from for years

[–] dustyData 10 points 7 months ago

Every person you fire without leaving a replacement is a loss of information and institutional knowledge. Like lobotomizing a person. Layoffs kill a company's ability to perform. Tesla won't exist as it is know in 2 years. Unlike software, that can continue to exist in a zombie way with whatever was left written run by a skeleton crew. Production companies instead tend to implode.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Gimme $56B or I’ll tank the company!

What a toddler.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 26 points 7 months ago

Nothing says "Upper management has a plan" like doing a new round of layoffs four weeks in a row.

[–] ThePantser 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What company will he set his sites on to gut next? Boring or SpaceX?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully Boring. As dumb as a cement parachute. Unless it's for billionaires.

[–] jumjummy 17 points 7 months ago

That company only exists to kill off high speed rail projects in California. Absolute disgrace.

[–] drmeanfeel 4 points 7 months ago

Incredibly you still have Musk fans that think SpaceX is somehow different than his plethora of other ego projects. They'd watch him piss into incoming wind and explain how his urine splattered clothes are a 4D business chess move