Elon Musk Will Rehire Bare Minimum Supercharger Employees
“I was informed they actually do work”
May 14, 2024
Image credit: Reuters
Elon Musk, seen here pointing at the next team he’ll lay off without a second thought
Tesla CEO Elon Musk will rehire some employees from the Supercharger team he unceremoniously axed in its entirety two weeks ago.
Musk, in an exclusive X (formerly Twitter) DM with TechPuke on Monday night, noted he was finally coming down from a two-month marijuana high that started during a podcast interview with Joe Rogan and continued every time he was home with his kids for more than 10 minutes. “I must’ve smoked the weed at least twice,” Musk lamented wistfully.
In an email conversation with TechPuke on Tuesday morning, rehired Supercharger engineer Supinder Chaghuri was “excited to rejoin the team”. Chaghuri, who had been employed at Tesla on an H1-B visa for over two years, continued “I’d just boarded my flight when I got the email. It only said ‘Employee, come back.’ I’d already sold all my stuff and I don’t have a home anymore, but that was good enough for me. The doors were closed so I had to convince the flight attendant I’d left the stove on at home. I just need to figure out where to sleep tonight.”
Musk confirmed with TechPuke that rehired employees would revoke their right to severance from the layoffs and only be offered half their original pay, pending a passing drug test. “We need to be really hardcore right now,” Musk said before boarding his backup private jet for an ayahuasca retreat in New Mexico with his brother Kimbal, his medicial guru Mari Juana, and his emotional support venture capitalist David Sacks.