The Tesla factory in the Californian city of Fremont, where Nico Murillo said he worked until April 15, 2024. picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Ben Margot
Ex-Tesla employee Nico Murillo tells in a video how his dismissal from the car manufacturer in Fremont, California, went.
Starting in 2019, he worked his way up from production employee to the position of production manager – and was finally terminated out of nowhere on April 15, 2024, he reports.
“It was a very shocking dismissal process,” he says. After five years at Tesla, during which, as he says, he gave his best every day, he asked himself whether this was really real.
The video by ex-Tesla employee Nico Murillo now has almost 1,000 likes on LinkedIn and almost a million views on YouTube. In it, Murillo tells how he worked his way up from production employee to the position of production manager at Tesla from 2019 – and was finally terminated out of nowhere on April 15, 2024.
“It was a very shocking dismissal process,” he says. After five years at Tesla, during which he says he gave his best every day, he asked himself whether this was really real.
But first things first.
Murill about the deactivated Tesla account: “At first I thought it was an IT problem”
According to his own account, Murillo was released on April 15, 2024. He says he opened his laptop at 4:30 a.m. that day. He quickly noticed that his Tesla account had been deactivated. “The first thing I thought was it was an IT problem,” Murillo says in the video. But when he checked his emails on the way to work around five o’clock, he suddenly had a new message in his inbox.
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According to Murillo, it said that his position had been eliminated as part of a “restructuring at Tesla.” He then wrote to his manager. They replied that more information would follow later. When Murillo finally arrived in front of the Tesla factory, he said he had to give his access card to a security employee when checking in to the site. Another security employee later told him that he was affected by the layoffs.
Background: Tesla boss Elon Musk recently announced that he would cut more than one in ten jobs in the company worldwide due to the slump in the electric car market and weak sales. This could affect around 14,000 people worldwide.
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“Back in the car it really hit me,” Murillo says in the video. “I worked here for five years. That’s a long time. It was tough, the whole situation.” He always tried to do his best, motivate and inspire others. According to Murillo, he started out making $19 an hour as a production employee. He showered and slept in the factory. Eventually he was promoted to senior production employee at $24 an hour and then to production manager at $85,000 a year. In the end he had $120,000 per month including the shares.
However, Murillo emphasizes: “I have nothing against the company, against Tesla. I like the cars, I like the brand.” He’s just tired of this system: In California, where he lives, the rents are so high, the garbage, the water and electricity bills are so high. His plan now is to sell his house and furniture and live in his Tesla for five years. “Then I’m done, then I’ve saved enough money to be financially independent.
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