Thousands of Tesla employees slammed the American multinational automotive and clean energy company after being sacked via an impersonal and seemingly automated email. The inconsiderate message has since been exposed online, scandalizing the internet altogether.
Taking to the “Mildly Infuriating” Reddit community on Monday (April 15), a user shared a screenshot of what he claimed to be “The Tesla layoffs email.”
- Tesla sacked thousands via an impersonal email, sparking outrage online.
- Some employees found out about the layoffs when their badges didn’t work, learning on arrival at work.
- Layoffs included engineers and associates, affecting global workforce by over 10%.
The $505.99 billion corporation went on to highlight its rapid growth with multiple factories scaling around the globe, which meant that there had been multiple instances where different employees had similar roles or responsibilities.
Tesla went on to emphasize the importance of cost reductions and increasing productivity for the company’s next phases, inevitably resulting in reducing its headcounts globally.
“Unfortunately, as a result, your position has been eliminated by this restructuring,” the email concluded.
Redditors were quick to take notice of the lack of individuality and personal touch with the affected employees, as a person commented: “They could’ve at least popped in a name at the beginning of the template.”
With many mocking the email’s aloofness and accusing the company of using artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, someone else wrote: “Darn, just a generic letter too.”
Tesla faced backlash for an impersonal, automated layoffs email, sparking online outrage
Another Redditor chimed in: “Can’t even be bothered to address you by name. ‘Dear Employee’ might as well say ‘Dear Peasant.’”
An additional individual penned: “I knew from reading the first sentence that I could skip the entire second paragraph.
“Just a bunch of useless filler that the boots-on-the-ground people don’t care about.”
Tesla told staff it was laying off more than 10% of its workforce on Sunday (April 14), with some workers not even realizing they had been fired until they showed up at the company’s facilities, Business Insider (BI) reported on Monday (April 15).
The massive cuts reportedly impacted engineers and production associates alike. A worker at Tesla’s factory in Sparks, Nevada, USA, informed BI that employees faced about a two-hour line on Monday morning local time just to get into the facility as a result of badge check issues.
Two current Tesla workers who requested anonymity told BI that at the Nevada factory, the security team was reportedly scanning the badges of workers coming out of the shuttles that ferry people between the premises and nearby parking lots.
Some Tesla employees were unaware of their termination until arriving at company facilities
According to the anonymous staff members, security guards would typically inspect workers’ badges at the site but wouldn’t usually scan them directly.
As a result, on Monday morning, Tesla officials picked out colleagues who had been terminated and sent them back on separate vans, the BI informants said.
Three other former Tesla employees reportedly said workers at the Fremont factory, in California, were told by security that if their badges didn’t work they were no longer employed.
As per BI, Tesla employees who were terminated received notice via their personal emails on Sunday night, with their access to Tesla systems revoked.
Emails sent directly to dismissed employees reportedly said the cuts would be effective immediately and workers would receive information regarding their severance within 48 hours.
You can read the layoff email below:
The same day Tesla announced the layoffs , at least two executives resigned from the company, BI reported.
Drew Baglino, the senior vice president of Tesla’s powertrain and electrical engineering, and Rohan Patel, the vice president of the company’s public policy and business development, said on X (formerly known as Twitter) that they had left Tesla as of Sunday.
Ezkel Love, who worked in the Austin area where Tesla’s Gigafactory employs about 20,000 people, told Kens 5 : “I got an email saying I was terminated and they made a decision to let go 10% of the workforce.
“They’re supposed to be leading in innovation … That would have been the best opportunity for me to learn manufacturing.”
In a leaked memo to Tesla staff on Sunday, CEO Elon Musk partially explained the layoffs, saying the company had “made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally,” Electrek reported
“There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” Elon wrote in the memo. “This will enable us to be lean, innovative, and hungry for the next growth phase cycle.”
Terminated workers received notification via personal email with immediate effect and were promised severance details within 48 hours
We spoke to some of the Tesla Gigafactory employees sent notices – essentially overnight – that they were being terminated. Some showed up to work this morning – confused when their badges didn’t work. We’ll have more on what we’ve learned so far at 5 pm @fox7austin pic.twitter.com/5p4wgh4zs7 — Carissa Lehmkuhl (@CarissaonFOX7) April 15, 2024
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