Tesla fires Singapore country manager, Elon Musk says 'very tough quarter'

As Tesla gears for a global recessionary storm as warned by its founder Elon Musk, the first to be caught in the eye is Christopher Bousigues, the Singapore country manager who has been axed just one year into the job.

Bousigues, the first country manager for Tesla in Southeast Asia posted on Linkedin that his "role was chosen to be eliminated as of today." Tesla chief Musk had warned that 10% of it's workforce will need to be trimmed to adjust to the new economic realities.

Bloomberg reports that the world's richest person has warned employees in an internal memo that Tesla Inc. has had a “very tough quarter” as it struggles with supply-chain snags.

“This has been a very tough quarter, primarily due to supply chain and production challenges in China,” Musk said in an email to employees over the weekend. “So we need to rally hard to recover!”