[HN Gopher] Carvana laid off 2,500 employees today via a pre-rec...
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       Carvana laid off 2,500 employees today via a pre-recorded message
       through zoom
        
       Author : Lapz
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-05-10 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | tempnow987 wrote:
       | Note that for legal reasons many of the layoff announcements are
       | HEAVILY scripted. It's possible that the "pre-recorded" message
       | was a teleprompter read or something else that does not allow a
       | lot of back and forth.
       | 
       | There are so many causes for legal action these days the
       | announcements in general have to be very bland.
       | 
       | Note I forget who it was, but there was a post or short video a
       | while back predicting exactly this - 10% layoffs. Some driven by
       | sales, others by companies using the cover of the economy to drop
       | folks they'd like to have rotated out etc. This sounds
       | superficially sales related, but don't know how carvana is doing
       | to judge
        
       | dtagames wrote:
       | I went to our new Carvana in Houston last week to see it work.
       | The security guard type who was on duty was almost openly
       | hostile. There was no acknowledgement that I might be a current
       | or future customer. How would he know?
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       | This person was so unpleasant, I decided on the spot I would
       | never buy a car from them, no matter how cool the vending machine
       | or how great the deal.
       | 
       | Having worked in car sales and finance, I can tell you this is a
       | big mistake. If Carvana's plan is to replace dealership staff
       | with a robot and a security guard, then they will soon be out of
       | business.
        
       | bdcravens wrote:
       | The tweet doesn't make it clear, but are these remote or on-site
       | employees? If remote, while cold, I don't see the issue with a
       | remote notification.
        
       | elliekelly wrote:
       | Did they comply with the WARN Act? I wonder how the "single
       | employment site" is applied to remote workers? Perhaps it's _one_
       | unforeseen  "benefit" of working from the office?
        
       | grrrrrbox wrote:
       | How has Carvana been doing over the past year? They focused on
       | reducing the friction in buying/selling used cars, right?
       | 
       | I wonder if they could have suffered from the supply crunch. Last
       | I checked, 5-year-old Corollas were pushing $20k, and a new base
       | model is about the same price.
       | 
       | Anecdotally, I checked Carvana and local dealers when I was
       | looking for a car recently, because I usually buy $5k beaters and
       | drive them into the ground. This time, it didn't make sense to
       | risk a lemon when I could get a bumper-to-bumper warranty for the
       | same price. So I waited until I could find something new at MSRP,
       | and that was that.
        
         | gpapilion wrote:
         | I sold a car to them the other day that was 10 years old for
         | 18k.
         | 
         | I dont think inventory is their issue, but rather the fact they
         | are a lender more than a dealer. They just make a lot of
         | questionable loans and repackage them for sale, sort of.
        
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