A Tesla Dealership Manager Blamed Elon Musk for Tanking Sales and Was Immediately Fired

It's impossible to deny at this point that Elon Musk has inflicted catastrophic damage to Tesla's brand and hurt its sales. But this, apparently, is an opinion employees aren't allowed to express. That was the experience of Matthew LaBrot, a now-former Tesla staff program manager who says he was immediately fired from his "dream job" after daring to call out Musk for hurting the company. He did so fully understanding the risks he was taking, but spoke out anyway — "because I believe in Tesla's mission more than I fear its CEO," LaBrot wrote in a LinkedIn post Friday, as spotted by Fortune. "I want that mission to grow and thrive," LaBrot added. "And I believe we can't do that with Elon Musk as CEO." In late April, LaBrot, who joined the company in 2019, anonymously created a website called "Tesla Employees Against Elon" where he shared an open letter calling for new leadership and blaming Musk for the company's plummeting sales which, in the US, have fallen by 9 percent in the firs ... Read full article.