"...Tesla clearly is in need of a stronger middle management layer critical in running a $50 billion auto company," said Arndt Ellinghorst at Evercore.
Attorney Stuart D. Meissner Esq. had been teasing last week that new "whistleblower" information on Tesla was going to be forthcoming. This morning, he introduced the world to what is potentially Tesla's most credible whistleblower yet: the company's former head of Global Security Operations Center & Investigations, Sean Gouthro.
The sleuths on Twitter uncovered Gouthro's responsibilities at Tesla while he was there, via his LinkedIn, which included "social media monitoring".
...some [employees] suspect that Tesla is suspending the transition period for store closures simply to push out employees, in order to avoid paying them severance.
“I came from being a guy who didn’t know where the cloud was to realizing speed matters. I didn’t realize being a millisecond faster was all that important.”
With new reports of layoffs and cost cutting measures literally popping up every hour, it's getting hard to buy into the idea that the company is not in a major cash crunch...
“Bank branches are a crucial part of financial access. The argument that we all live in this digital society so we don’t need bank branches is completely false.”
Eric Bolduc, who owns a body shop in Quebec, has "found significant amounts of sand and dirt accumulating in the underbody panel at the back of every Model 3 he has worked on so far."