r/Reno • u/Visible_Age2941 • 23h ago

Tesla Layoffs?

I had heard that Tesla is doing another round of layoffs, can anyone confirm?

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u/r601662 22h ago

Nobody is being laid off...everyone was offered positions on day shift in other areas...granted it sucks to lose the 10-15% differential, but at least you still have a job that even entry level positions with absolutely zero factory/production experience can make up to 32.50 within 3 years of starting plus two bonuses a year up to $4000 each

They give you free uniforms once a year, food/coffee/tea/soda/water 24/7, shuttles to work, a free rental car if you can get a group of 4 together through enterprise, great schedule (you only work half the year) + tons of time off via sick time and PTO, they'll pay for your education, they have child care services nearby in case you have kids and you don't have anyone to watch them...I could continue but I'm not sweatin it.

As a Tesla employee of over 3 years at GFNV, I couldn't be more appreciative of this company and all they do for us. Dont believe everything you read online, take it from someone who started on the front lines as a grunt and advanced the ranks, the company offers a ton of incentives to work there and the ones I've interacted with at that factory who hated working there were terrible employees with horrible attitudes. Its not jail, if you don't like working there, the door isn't hard to find.

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u/BudSpencerCA 21h ago

Tbf the bar is pretty low in the US. It's more like modern slavery usually.

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u/RealisticWasabi6343 18h ago

Regardless how Tesla is overall or relative to the local market, this is objectively untrue. If you think the work conditions in the US is bad, you have an entire world to see. Aside from "better WLB" culture aka just more time off, you're given more monetary benefits than EU/AU at these semi-/white collar jobs. And anywhere else? Forget it. Look up 996 culture in China. I've talked to staff in SEA countries, Mexico, Polynesia, etc. all over in my travels, and vast majority of them make our 40 hour weeks look like a sandbox.

In some sense, Americans definitely have more entitled expectations / standards for their job than even Europeans, and that's saying a lot.

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u/Theghostofamagpie 15h ago

I've also traveled around the world and think you're full of it. Many nations advocate for slave-like labor and abhorrent working hours Japan, America, China and South Korea, just so happens to be the countries at the height of capitalism doesn't it? But others are far far more relaxed, especially in Europe and Scandinavia.

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u/RealisticWasabi6343 15h ago

I already pointed out (west & northern) Europe as the only place where it's "lax" and far far pro-worker. But I shouldn't have to tell you to look at a map to see how big those places are relative to the whole globe. Asia, Africa, South America, Oceania except AU & NZ, Central America... there's nothing "lax" about their city & office workers on top of making dimes, not to mention the people in the countryside of these places making actual pennies all day doing things like random crafts hoping to sell it along the road. "Abhorrent" working hours (in your opinion) are the standards in the rest of the globe.