Anna Moneymaker
- Tesla laid off more than 10% of its workforce, a memo sent by CEO Elon Musk showed.
- One worker who lost his job a month after joining Tesla told KVUE he couldn't pay his rent.
- The layoffs follow a difficult first quarter for Tesla, which saw a 20% sales drop.
An employee who'd been working at Tesla for about a month learned he'd been laid off on Monday, local news station KVUE reported.
Ezekiel Love told the Texas-based station that he joined the EV maker a month ago to help assemble Model Y cars at its headquarters, but then received a termination letter on Monday, which KVUE included in its news segment.