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Shame, Elon Musk’s employees often find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place.

A number of SpaceX employees were fired after penning an open letter to Musk (not so free speechy of him), and now Tesla employees are struggling to figure out where exactly they’re supposed to work.

Musk recently made a company-wide call for Tesla employees to return to the Fremont, California office, putting the possibility of remote work to an official end.

The bossman’s stance on remote work seems pretty strict, actually, and a thread of leaked emails revealed that he required everyone at Tesla to spend at least 40 hours (a full workweek) in offices.

Cool, except the company forgot to cater for all the new and returning employees coming in. It turns out, there was a lack of parking space and desk space for them when they arrived.

Fortune reported that the problem arose because of a hiring surge at the company (the headcount doubled to around 99 210 people), as well as remodelled parts of the office, which made for a crowded space.

Tesla’s dwindling human resources department and lack of communication also apparently exasperated the problem:

Workers have returned to an overflowing parking lot and resorted to parking at the local transit station, resuming a pre-pandemic problem. Once employees shuttled to the office, some found there was no desk for them to work from or stable enough Wi-Fi to do their jobs.

They told The Information that some managers told them to work from home some days because there weren’t enough workstations.

Even if there was a spot to sit at the office, the WiFi signal was apparently too spotty to work effectively, per The Verge.

Interesting how that is a problem when you own SpaceX that actually offers a WiFi service…

Musk has been rather distracted, mind you, battling with Twitter over how many of its users are bots while trying to buy the company.

He has made it known that showing up in Tesla factories is what makes the company a success. Perhaps he should bring a couple more desks with him next time.

[sources:fortune&verge]