“Just a heads-up would have been nice.” Lock It Getting Laid off is bad enough, but finding out that you’ve been sacked by being denied entry to the building where you work is another thing entirely. According to multiple former and current Tesla workers who spoke to Business Insider, some employees sacked in Tesla’s mass layoffs this week didn’t learn about their terminations until they showed up to work Monday morning. At Tesla’s Sparks, Nevada factory, security took to scanning employee badges — an out-of-the-ordinary occurrence, apparently — for folks coming out of vans that shuttle workers between parking lots and facilities. Those who had been laid off were singled out and sent back on separate vans, current employees who spoke to BI on condition of anonymity said. At Tesla’s now-infamous Fremont facility, meanwhile, security told workers that if their badges didn’t work, it meant they were no longer employed. Cruel and Unusual While lockouts are by no means an anomaly in the tech industry or even at Elon Musk-owned companies specifically, it’s an especially …

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