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Jordan turned up at work on Sunday morning expecting a normal shift as a Tesla test driver.

But instead at the office they were told they couldn’t drive — their job was to train the electric carmaker’s self-driving software by riding along with it as it navigated real city streets — and asked to wait around on standby until the issue was resolved. “Don’t worry about it,” a manager told them.

So Jordan waited for eight hours, and only learned on Monday morning that they were among the estimated 14,000 Tesla employees who were laid off across the world this weekend.

“It felt kind of…