https://spacenews.com/spacex-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-workforce/ Hungarian Gas Mask ? 3 months ago
From Telsarati.com. Not surprised, that's why it's called Slave-X out here...
https://www.teslarati.com/s... Regardless of whether SpaceX had sincere and angelic motivations for
these layoffs (they probably did not), the single worst aspect of the
whole ordeal is how the company managed it and communicated with
employees. According to comments and hints from a dozen or more
employees, the process began with next to no official warning around
lunchtime on Friday, January 11th.
Employees attended an all-hands meeting where they were told in frank terms
that a major portion of the company ? those deemed to be lower performers
? would be laid off within 24 hours. All 7000+ employees were told around the same time.
The catch: nobody was told who exactly would be cut ? instead, SpaceX
would force every single employee to leave work early on Friday and
spend 12-24 hours in total uncertainty until an unspecified time on
Saturday, when they were ? in theory ? supposed to receive an email
telling them whether or not they still had a job waiting for them on
Monday. In many dozens of cases, email notifications failed or workers
were forced to call a number provided by SpaceX and ask the company themselves if
they still had jobs, not even receiving the absolute minimum courtesy
of some sort of call or notification.
Whether the given employee was five months or five years senior, the process was
identically debasing and insulting ? ~24 hours of avoidable existential uncertainty followed
by an automated email or phone call that you had to make yourself.
Nobody was offered an explanation as to why they were chosen out of
all SpaceX employees. Workers who had given their heart, soul, blood,
sweat, and tears to SpaceX for more than half a decade were ? very
literally ? fired by automated email without the simplest explanation
and told to not return to work unless returning company property,
effective immediately.
