Here's the email Elon Musk sent all Tesla employees about 10% headcount reduction

[brooklynite]

CNBC

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an e-mail to all employees at the electric vehicle maker on Friday that the company will cut 10% of salaried workers and will instead rely on more hourly workers.

Shares of Tesla dipped 8% Friday by mid-morning after Reuters reported on an earlier email Musk had sent to executives about his plans to cut Tesla’s workforce and expressing a “super bad feeling” about the economy.

Here’s the new email sent to all employees as transcribed by CNBC:

To: Everybody
Subject: Headcount Reduction
Date: Friday, June 3, 2022

Tesla will be reducing salaried headcount by 10% as we have become overstaffed in many areas. Note this does not apply to anyone actually building cars, battery packs or installing solar. Hourly headcount will increase.

Elon

[wryter2000]

1. He's getting as attention starved as Trump

How do we shut him off?

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Reminds me of my Chatty Cathy doll. Someone finally got fed up with her

And threw her onto the roof of my house where she continued to chat until the batteries wore out.

Elon may be the richest in the world but he's junior high, every day, all year. Poor dear.

❤

[Silent3]

2. Maybe his personal economy is going to take a big hit from his Twitter stupidity

I'm fine with that, just wish he wasn't taking it out on his workers.

[ret5hd]

3. I bet this is more about his...

eliminating work-from-home as it is the economy.

Much easier to convince hourly employees to comply.

[Hugin]

6. No contract. n/t

[Hugin]

4. He's channeling Jack Welch.

With the same results, I wager.

Those daily calls from TFG are taking their toll or maybe Larry Ellison, I can’t quite tell, yet.

[kimbutgar]

5. Something tells me that sales of Teslas are dropping

And there will be a brain drain of people from that company that will go to work with their competitors eveloping electric and hybrid cars for the masses that are affordable.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. hmmm, sounds like the Twitter deal is making him nervous and his other business is in a downturn.

[oioioi]

9. TSLA still looks like a screaming short. Hopefully he'll crash and burn...

Life, death, and spontaneous combustion — here's why the debate about Tesla fires just got more fierce

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire-2019-4

"if Tesla were an average car, we would have expected 0.23 Tesla fire deaths in 2016, 0.35 in 2017, 0.45 deaths in 2018, and 0.16 deaths in 1Q 2019," Brown wrote. That's a total of 1.19 fire deaths over three years.

Tragically, that isn't what has been happening.

Last month, a Davie, Florida, man died after his Tesla crashed into a tree and ignited. First responders were reportedly not able to open the car's extendable door handles.

In December, a woman in New Hampshire died after her car ignited following a crash.

Last May, two teenagers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, died after the one driving a Tesla Model S crashed into a wall and the battery caught fire."

[sdfernando]

10. Where is Ralph Nader when you really need him?

[greenjar_01]

11. Building resentment between your line workers and operations is...a choice, I guess

Dude is going full blaze of glory.