<story><title>Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steeeve</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not a fan of this style of management at all.  I won&amp;#x27;t knowingly go to work for a company that behaves in this manner.  I&amp;#x27;ve read that Netflix does it, and I&amp;#x27;ve seen inferences that they acquired the practice from Disney.&lt;p&gt;If you have a low performing employee that you want to get rid of, fine.  Arbitrarily destroying the lives of a percentage of your workforce in an annual purge is not OK.&lt;p&gt;People always seem to put Musk on a pedestal.  Personally, I&amp;#x27;ve always been (and always will be) leery of a company run by a PayPal founder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwingerman</author><text>And it is exactly this style of management that is causing problems at the German automation plant he aquired (see my comment in the duplicate thread). It is probably a reason why production of the Model 3 is behind -- the company he acquired builds the factory robots needed for advanced automation. Smart move to acquire it then and it explains why the timing is now off.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t run a German plant like an American one, people will take the 30 day vacations that have been written into their contracts since before he arrived (just because you have a new boss doesn&amp;#x27;t mean the old contract is invalid), take sick days if they need them (unlimited sick days by law, they don&amp;#x27;t come out of your vacation time), and go home at 5pm because they value their home&amp;#x2F;family&amp;#x2F;free time. Last I checked the factory had at least dozens of positions open that they can&amp;#x27;t fill because no one here wants to work for them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steeeve</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not a fan of this style of management at all.  I won&amp;#x27;t knowingly go to work for a company that behaves in this manner.  I&amp;#x27;ve read that Netflix does it, and I&amp;#x27;ve seen inferences that they acquired the practice from Disney.&lt;p&gt;If you have a low performing employee that you want to get rid of, fine.  Arbitrarily destroying the lives of a percentage of your workforce in an annual purge is not OK.&lt;p&gt;People always seem to put Musk on a pedestal.  Personally, I&amp;#x27;ve always been (and always will be) leery of a company run by a PayPal founder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbabb</author><text>Do they set a &amp;quot;quota&amp;quot; for 2%? Or is it that they do it every year, and 2% is about the number that falls out?&lt;p&gt;I do agree that a &amp;quot;firing quota&amp;quot; is backwards; it should be a standard of performance. But even in a healthy, high-performing company, 1 (or maybe 2) out of 100 people being a drag&amp;#x2F;net-negative contributor doesn&amp;#x27;t sound far too off. Ultimately I think it helps the other 98 people to ask those two to leave as soon as it&amp;#x27;s clear they&amp;#x27;re not going to become a net positive. If that assessment comes at a specific time of year, so be it; if it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Okay, we have &amp;#x2F;n&amp;#x2F; heads to chop off, where are they coming from??&amp;quot;... then yeah, not so much.</text></comment>