May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.
After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.
The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.
I’d prefer to call him a scam artist. He is really good at taking credit for other people’s work.
That’s not a fair thing to say.
He’s also really good at stock manipulation.
He also just made up big parts of his academic background. Most of us missed that efficiency-boosting strategy.
There is a sales guy I work with who is like a good version of him. We work well together, he gets all the credit and deals with the clients, I get all the glory and deal with the machines.