Reporting from Fremont — Tesla was set to begin scraping “barnacles” on Monday. Barnacle is Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s word for temporary workers whose job performance is not up to snuff.

If Tesla were a boat in a dock, it would be getting its keel scraped clean today. On Monday, Tesla began the process of what Chief Executive Elon Musk called scrubbing the “barnacles” off the company ...

Barnacle is Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s word for temporary workers whose job performance is not up to snuff. Scraping and scrubbing are his words for firing them, a purge the billionaire ...

It's a familiar scene. A car with excessive unpaid parking fines is rendered immobile by a "boot" or clamp on its wheel. The result is a new headache for the driver and parking enforcement. The car's ...