A Tesla employee says he was fired after publicly blaming the company’s cratering sales on CEO Elon Musk and his political activities.
Matthew LaBrot, a sales manager and five-year company veteran, created a website in late April called Tesla Employees Against Elon and three days later was dismissed.
The termination took place as Musk started a pivot from his cost-cutting, agency-gutting crusade inside the Trump administration and back to Tesla, the electric-vehicle-maker that provides most of his wealth and is facing pervasive decline of demand for its cars.
On his site, LaBrot said the responsibility for Tesla’s sales crisis belongs to the CEO. “Let’s be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service, and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon,” he wrote.
