We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla's EV Charging division, resisted Musk's demand to fire large portions of her team.
While this is hearsay, it's plausible considering the language in Musk's letter announcing the firings – which claimed that some executives are not taking headcount reduction seriously, and made a point to say that executives who retain the wrong employees may see themselves and their whole teams cut. It isn't a stretch to think that Musk included those demands since they were related to his firing of Tinucci and her team.
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She needed all those people. They cover for her when she has to go pick up her kids, or a kid has a cold, or the nanny was deported, or her CFS is flaring up, or she thinks she might have pre-onset asymptomatic covid...
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