Ex-Tesla employees describe the abrupt way they were laid off and say questions linger (TSLA)

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• Tesla laid off 7% of its employees on Friday.
• Tesla employees who were let go on Friday described to Business Insider an abrupt, impersonal process that left them wondering why they had been chosen.
• One former employee expressed both sadness at having to leave the company and relief that she would not have to deal with the aftermath of the layoffs.
• Another employee described the layoffs as yet another one of Tesla's "purges," and described turnover at the company as the fastest she'd ever seen.

• And another employee said: "I worked hard I got a great bonus and they just took it away from me."

Tesla laid off 7% of its employees on Friday, seven months after cutting 9% of its workforce.

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