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'Embarrassment For Us': SpaceX Employees Internally Denounce Musk's Behavior - Report

Published 06/16/2022, 05:43 AM
Updated 06/16/2022, 09:52 AM
© Reuters 'Embarrassment For Us': SpaceX Employees Internally Denounce Musk's Behavior - Report

© Reuters 'Embarrassment For Us': SpaceX Employees Internally Denounce Musk's Behavior - Report

By Senad Karaahmetovic

SpaceX employees are reportedly considering sending a letter to the company’s SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in which they want to denounce Elon Musk’s behavior.

Employees are being asked to sign a letter, either publicly or anonymously, according to the report in The Verge. Accordingly, SpaceX employees “across the spectra of gender, ethnicity, seniority, and technical roles have collaborated” and worked together to draft the letter.

The staff is concerned that Musk’s recent actions and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) remarks are negatively affecting the company’s reputation.

“Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks,” the letter allegedly states.

“As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every Tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company. It is critical to make clear to our teams and to our potential talent pool that his messaging does not reflect our work, our mission, or our values.”

The Verge added that the draft letter attracted over a hundred comments on the company’s Teams channel.

Finally, the draft letter has three recommendations for the company’s top executives to deal with Elon Musk’s problematic behavior.

  1. “Publicly address and condemn Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior”;
  2. “Hold all leadership equally accountable”; and
  3. “Clearly define what exactly is intended by SpaceX’s ‘no-asshole’ and 'zero tolerance' policies and enforce them consistently.”
 

Latest comments

I guess these employees want their Twitter acct monitored.......be told what they can say, believe and do.
Betcha it's only 10 percent of Space X employees that feel that way. The ones that are ashamed of everyone but themselves.
Betcha less than 0.5% of Space X employees felt that way. The woke losers. :)
When someone asks where you works, if you say SpaceX, then almost you get instant recognition. So who made it happened? Elon is the person and not you. Why these people in the lawsuit don’t see it.
How heavy is his 2 balls?
What is embarrassing is Twitters Fact Checkers that are extremely biased. They promote lies as long as it goes along with the Democratic Political Narrative.  They sensor or cancel any truths that are counter to the Democratic Political Narrative.
Boo Hoo triggered employees need something to complain about. Would love to see Elon fire everyone who signs the letter.
100
If he wants to take a dump inside a rocket before closing the hatch since he is the owner he is in his right to do it. Oh and post it on Twitter too
Well the guy is the owner he can do whatever he pleases I guess
He is not the owner of the whole company. He raised a lot of money by selling shares.
 And those owners that don't like his control of the company are free to sell those shares.
That's not how ANY of this works, how does this comment have 5 likes? That's not how companies are run... Retail investors are clueless
Tell Us are you crying because he forced you back to work rather than sitting at home in your underware last month? Please children eat all your veggies and sit up straight!
Also Richard these leftist *******hards are upset be Elon is not towing the Marxist party line! He know they are destroying the USA!
I love sitting at home in my underware and short TSLA
That makes two of us, let these guys here defend their billionaire overlords
As the saying goes if you don't like the job, don't let the door hit you on the way out!
let's just hope there is not a draft Becuse ww3 and this generation gonna expect to have a safe space and then what they gonna complain the Russians are targeting them unfairly by. shooting them
Roger, if we were drawn into any war, none of these beta boy weenies would fight.. Beside, more then half would fail the physical and/or boot camp. The Marxist Dem party has succeeded in feminizing all men!
Democrats have lost their minds and are furious with anyone who hasn't!
So go work somewhere else. "Harmful" Twitter remarks? I'm embarrassed that the U.S. has produced an entire generation of entitled, hypersensitive , spoiled brats. Rational people would be thankful for well paying work.
Democrats are out to castrate America so they themselves can feel more inclusive.
SpaceX: No one's perfect. Without Him, you'd probably be working in a call center somewhere.
You have the WRONG ATTITUDE. Every person, whether a Musk or a Trump or a Democrat, or  a whatever type of person must be held ACCOUNTABLE to the basics of what makes our democracy function. Your type of thinking gets our system closer to that of Putins. -- Wake up man and educate yourself
 Think you have it backwards.  It is FREEDOM.
Held accountable to what? YOUR way of thinking? Would you allow yourself to be held accountable by your employees demanding you think the way they do? This is why you're not the billionaire.
The great humanitarian environmental messiah sides with the treasonous, seditious, environmental *******white supemacist gun fetishists who value their WMDs over the lives of children. Meanwhile TSLA craters everytime this very, very stable genius opens his mouth. Impressive.
Come on George, surely someone from the Left didn't just chastize someone about children...perhaps self-reflection is needed on issues like ****** CRT, Grooming the kids, gender reassignment...just to name a few
Wow. That is a scary hyperpartisan rant.
And to think they told you those puberty blockers & gender reassignment therapeutics would have no short & long term mental health effects. Did you write George while squatting to pee?
who cares
Sounds like angry Democrats bs
Employees should write a letter saying Free Speech is Awesome an Elon Musk is MAGA.  Then fire anyone who didn't willingly sign it.
Democrats hate him ..
Pot is fun. It also leads to poor decision making. A pot smoking CEO is not desirable.
Brad you must be a major pothead. Brad tell us what you like most about your addiction?
The only people who can tolerate working at any of his companies are desperado immigrants on H1B visas etc.
Spacex can't use H1B visa because of DOJ rules that regulate Space Crafts.
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