More than 1,400 of the laid off Tesla employees work at the Fremont factory and several dozen work in Palo Alto.
Tesla’s massive, companywide layoff round is set to slam California, with 3,332 workers across four cities losing their jobs in June. The Elon Musk-led automaker revealed the timing and scope of the layoffs in WARN filings with California on Monday; such documentation is required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act in the event of mass layoffs. Tesla’s cuts are hitting its Fremont locations hardest, with 2,267 layoffs across a dozen job sites. More than 1,400 of them are...
Today, we say happy birthday to one of the original West Coasters, Too $hort, born on this date in 1966. As one of Hip Hop’s first self-made businessmen, $hort started off his career pumping his own X-rated mixtapes out of the trunk of his car. Releasing fifteen albums between 1987 and 2012, Too $hort has […] The post Happy Birthday To Bay Area Rap Icon Too $hort! first appeared on The Source.
In February, Nike announced it would cut 2% of its global workforce in a restructuring, but did not indicate how many of the cuts would be local.
Elatec today announced it is bringing employee badge in Apple Wallet to its customers, enabling an organization’s employees or tenants to unlock access to locations and devices with a simple tap of their
Tesla laid off at least 10 percent of its workforce earlier this month, and in typical Tesla fashion, the Texas-based automaker made sure the layoffs were done in an organized fashion with plenty of communication and a clearly defined strategy. Just kidding. The layoffs were so poorly executed that security was forced to scan employees’ badges at the door to figure out who had been laid off. And, apparently, that included a guy who had taken to sleeping in his car and showering at the factory...
A family of four was killed in a solo-car crash in in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday night, officials said. The driver may have hit a tree, the Pleasanton Police Department said in a news release. The mother, father and two children under age 15 were killed in the crash that occurred at about 9 p.m. on Foothill Road near Stoneridge Drive in the East Bay suburb, the police said. The cause of the crash remained under investigation on Thursday night, but police said it appears the driver...
The annual dog surfing championship in Pacifica is in danger of being euthanized. Every year, people flock to the beaches of the San Mateo County city to watch canines catch waves for charity. But eight years after founding the event, its organizers worry that the competition might not happen, as costs for permits, fees and other requirements have increased more than 100% in the last three years. The group is asking for donations from the public to keep the event afloat. A GoFundMe page set up...
On Monday, the international community will celebrate the 54th anniversary of Earth Day with events across the globe. The first Earth Day took place April 22, 1970. A U.S. Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson prompted a massive demonstration.. when he called for students to and communities to fight for the environment and oppose environmental degradation using the same energy and fervor that was shown during the Vietnam War demonstrations. An estimated 30 million people showed up and...
Google is laying off an unspecified number of employees and shifting some roles to other countries as part of a continuing effort to cut costs. The employees will be able to apply for other roles at the company and some of the impacted roles will move to hubs in India, Chicago, Atlanta and Dublin, a Google […]
Tech giant Google has terminated employees from its Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its annual developer conference, TechCrunch reported, citing social media posts of impacted staff.A spokesperson for Google told the news portal that to prepare for opportunities ahead, the tech giant has made changes to its teams through the second half of 2023 and into 2024 to be more efficient. We’re simplifying our structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and...
In February 2001, someone walked into the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office in Santa Rosa holding a human skull. The person told deputies it was found on “Motorcycle Mountain” — a local nickname for a forested area off Duncan Road in Monte Rio, around 70 miles north of San Francisco. Sheriff’s deputies headed out to the woods, by the Russian River, but found no more remains. The skull had a gunshot wound to the forehead. Otherwise, it was in “good” condition, only missing a jawbone. Forensic...