- On Sunday night time, Elon Musk despatched a company-wide e-mail to Tesla workers saying a workforce discount of greater than 10%.
- One laid-off Tesla employee stated they moved about 6 months in the past for the job earlier than being let go.
- They moved cross-country after Tesla supplied them a stipend to do it.
This as-told-to essay is predicated on a dialog with a former Tesla worker who was laid off on Sunday night time and requested anonymity to guard their privateness. Enterprise Insider has verified their identification and employment. A spokesperson for Tesla didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider. The next has been edited for size and readability.
I began at Tesla as a business area companies technician throughout the pandemic. I dealt with the troubleshooting and upkeep for Tesla’s power division.
I began out with the corporate in California and since have moved twice whereas working for Tesla.
I simply moved throughout the nation for the job six months in the past.
Tesla transferred me to certainly one of its southern areas to service its power division. The corporate wanted somebody within the area and hadn’t had anyone on the bottom there for over a 12 months. Folks needed to fly out to the world periodically to service it.
For some time, I used to be flying out. For like a interval of three months, I used to be two weeks on, two weeks off, simply choosing up the slack.
Then Tesla requested me if I would think about transferring on the market with my spouse. I informed them I would solely think about it in the event that they paid for our transfer. They ended up serving to with the relocation course of and supplied a stipend.
We packed up and left in a few week. We offered most of our stuff and rented a giant U-Haul to drive down.
I used to be fully blindsided after I awakened on Monday morning to the layoff discover.
I awakened on Monday morning, making an attempt to clock in to work. And my telephone stated one thing alongside the strains of: password error, contact IT.
So I went to my laptop computer to attempt to log in and I used to be locked out of my pc too, with the IT quantity proper there on the display screen. I known as IT and so they stated I wanted to contact HR. Then I went to my private e-mail account and I noticed an e-mail from Tesla that was despatched out in a single day. It was that generic letter — one which numerous different individuals have stated they obtained.
I felt like I used to be doing nicely and receiving optimistic suggestions from my managers. In that layoff letter they stated the cuts have been resulting from redundancy, however I did not really feel like my position was redundant.
I really feel like Tesla might have dealt with the layoffs higher. It was impersonal and abrupt.
Now my spouse and I really feel like we’re sort of caught.
We’re in a city the place I in all probability will not be capable to discover numerous different alternatives with out having to commute round an hour and a half to work each methods due to the agricultural location. We’re additionally distant from household and and not using a close by assist system to assist us out.
We misplaced a few of our security internet after we moved. We rented a house that was nicely inside our price range with my Tesla pay, however much less so now that I have been laid off. Now we’re caught within the lease for six extra months.
After we moved for Tesla we did not take it frivolously, however we did not anticipate this. Leaving was powerful as a result of we would been residing close to household. I’ve two kids, a 17-year-old and a 9-year-old, and we needed to uproot them.
Now I really feel like we rolled the cube and we have sort of shot ourselves within the foot in consequence.
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