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Tesla has begun to strictly check attendance.
Work less than 16 days a month? Whether it is sickness, vacation, or business trip, please take the initiative to report to your superiors.
Less than 40 hours a week in the office? Leave me right away.
But this is just the latest in a series of operations. Before this:
Nearly 200 people in California’s self-driving team were laid off, managers in Singapore were fired, and three job fairs in China were temporarily canceled…
What’s even more strange is that Mr. Ma has been invisible online for a week despite the rumors of Tesla flying all over the sky.
So, what exactly happened?
Tesla strictly checks attendance?
The two anonymous posts, posted on the foreign workplace social networking site Blind, were both from Tesla employees.
One post exposed the warning letter he received:
This is an automatic notification from the system. The reason why you received this letter is that as of June 28, you have been on duty less than 16 days a month. As a friendly reminder, all employees should return to the office. We have found that the reason for your absence is usually sickness, vacation or business trip. In any case, please explain the reasons to your superiors by email.
Some netizens joked at the bottom of the post that this is for everyone to commute to work, and then they have the desire to buy a car:
Some netizens also think that Tesla is too lenient with employees:
Others questioned Musk’s attendance at work:
In another post, Tesla employees made a strong complaint about the “new rules” for attendance:
The lines are full of “makes me very uncomfortable”, Tesla is “crossing the line”, “controlling me”, “disrespecting people”, “unfair”… and even thinking of resigning.
Most of the comments below the post expressed dissatisfaction with this new approach:
Some people even speculated that “Tesla is going downhill” because of this:
In addition to these two posts, Tesla employees were warned a month ago that they must work 40 hours a week in the office or quit.
Putting the two things together, they both set clear rules and regulations for employees’ attendance and arrival time, which are measured in weeks and months.
Autopilot team to lay off nearly 200 people?
In addition to stricter management of employees, Tesla has recently stepped up layoffs around the world.
The closest and largest layoff occurred at the San Mateo, Calif., office, with nearly 200 layoffs, most of them hourly workers.
The reason for the layoffs is partly because of the end of the office lease, and partly because of Tesla’s intensifying layoff plan.
Specifically, most of the positions involved in layoffs are related to the labeling of autonomous driving data. They are mainly responsible for marking important objects such as cars, street signs, and lanes in videos (pictures) with rectangular boxes, which are helpful for later training of deep neural networks.
Some media said that this job has low technical content and is relatively simple to operate, so the salary is relatively low.
However, although the San Mateo office was disbanded, Tesla’s Buffalo office will expand recruitment for this position, but the hourly salary will be lower.
The total number of employees in the office before the layoffs is 350 employees in one version, 276 in another version, and those who have not been laid off have been transferred to other offices.
In addition to this drastic layoff, several employees on LinkedIn have previously disclosed that they have been laid off, some have issued new cover letters, and some have filed legal proceedings against Tesla.
For example, Christopher Bousigues, the regional manager of Tesla Singapore, briefly looked back on his achievements after being laid off:
“As Tesla’s first manager in Southeast Asia, single-handedly built the Singapore business.”
“Watching the Tesla Model 3 grow in popularity in Singapore.”
“We built 2 showrooms, 1 service center, and 7 supercharging stations, and we successfully launched Model Y yesterday.”
However, even such a successful person will also be fired by Tesla, and finally end up in this way – “returning to Europe or the hometown of southern France”.
China is no exception. Layoffs and suspensions have been started one after another. For example, it was revealed on Maimai that delivery employees were laid off:
And some people seem to have received N+3 compensation:
Earlier news was that three online job fairs in Tesla China were temporarily canceled for unknown reasons.
Musk is missing?
It is also a strict inspection of attendance, and a drastic global layoff. Tesla has been deeply caught in the center of public opinion recently…
But it was at such a critical juncture that Musk, the “blog madman”, was uncharacteristically invisible online for a week.
Even the recent 51st birthday and over 100 million Twitter followers are such good things as double happiness, Musk has not made a statement.
This is his last Weibo before disappearing:
Not a word was said, just a picture of a gas station in the dark.
In a recent interview with the Tesla Silicon Valley Owners Club, Musk expressed some concern about Tesla’s operations.
The interview mainly involved two aspects:
First, the new factory capacity.
Musk disclosed that Tesla’s two factories in Texas and Berlin, which have been put into operation not long ago, are facing the dilemma of increasing production capacity due to supply chain and battery shortages.
More seriously, the capacity bottleneck is on the one hand, and on the other hand, because the input and output are not proportional, Tesla has lost billions of dollars on the two new factories.
In Musk’s own words:
Both the Berlin and Austin factories are now huge “burning pots”. They were making a huge roar, the sound of money burning.
Second, the battery.
Musk said that due to the impact of the supply chain, there are also challenges in the production capacity of 4680 batteries that the Texas factory is responsible for producing, which also indirectly leads to an increase in vehicle production capacity.
Tesla’s previous generation of 2170 batteries was also affected, and production was in trouble.
Whether it’s batteries or factory capacity, all problems are traced back to the supply chain. Musk said that Tesla has been in the nightmare of supply chain disruptions for the past two years, and has not yet gotten out of the woods.
Finally, Musk summed up Tesla’s current state in one sentence:
Tesla’s biggest concern right now is how to keep the factory running so we can pay our employees and not go bankrupt.
As for when and whether Musk will come back, an account suspected of an official Tesla humanoid robot seems to have given a shot in the arm:
Will be back, busy now.
By the way, according to Tesla’s current attendance standards, there is one person who must not meet it – Andrej Karpathy (Andrej Karpathy).
A talent who had to be poached for breaking up with OpenAI later became Musk’s right-hand man.
Not only is he a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, he is also Tesla’s director of artificial intelligence, a deep learning and computer vision expert, and Tesla’s humanoid robot also has his huge credit.
I don’t know if he comes back in a month, is his work place still there? How will the unselfish Musk choose?
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