Several SpaceX employees have been fired for openly criticizing their boss, Elon Musk.
Several SpaceX employees have been fired for criticizing their boss, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is no stranger to controversies on Twitter, posting venomous, sometimes cryptic, and occasionally insulting statements regularly. However, no one openly criticizes his benefactor. Several SpaceX employees paid the fees and were licensed as a result. According to the website, The Vergeclose volume group of employees at the space exploration company prepared an open letter in which they criticized Elon Musk's public behavior, as well as recent sexual harassment allegations against him, as "a frequent source of distraction and honor for us."
« As the company's most prominent sponsor and spokesperson, Elon is widely regarded as the company's face - each tweet he sends is effectively regarded as a public statement from the company, particularly in recent weeks », he said in the letter, which was to be delivered to SpaceX's president.
The strikers demanded that the company "publicly condemn" the company's tweeting style of Tesla and SpaceX's sulfurous and wealthy founder.
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However, Elon Musk is not openly criticized in this way. Because the authors of this letter had sent it to all of their coworkers, requesting their possible signature and participation in a survey. According to an email sent Thursday at the end of the day by Gwynne Shotwell, director of operations for the Space Exploration Society, some employees felt "uneasy, intimidated, and/or in fear" because the letter "incited them to sign something that did not reflect their opinion" or because the letter "interfered with their ability to focus on their work." Alternatively, "we have too much important work to do and don't need this type of unscheduled activity." After conducting an investigation, the company has made the following decision:« Licencié un certain nombre d'employés impliqués », says the responsible, without specifying how many.
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The world's wealthiest man isn't interested in the employees of SpaceX, his space exploration company. On Tuesday, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, met with Twitter employees for the first time and left them unconcerned: neither about the economic model he plans to implement for the social network to gain an additional 700 million users nor about his political intentions.
While the multibillionaire businessman was close to canceling his Twitter purchase two weeks ago, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, spoke to Twitter employees for the first time on Thursday, June 16. However, despite announcing his plan to repurchase in April, he has not been able to reassure them of his intentions.
The main character has a sulfurous personality. The entrepreneur, a reviled libertarian - even anarchist, according to some observers - is a zealous supporter of unfettered freedom of expression, that is, as little as possible subject to moderation. Elonof federationw of frfederationspression is thus similar to that of Silicon Valley libertarians - such as Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, who is running for president in 2021 - and, more importantly, of Donald Trump and the Republican Party's far-right wing in the United States. In contrast to Elon Musk's claims, she is far from being politically neutral or moderate.
In a series of tweets, both old and new, the billionaire downplays his ties to the Republican Party and criticizes "the left," which he regularly labels "extremist" and "dangerous," repurposing the argument of the most right-wing Republicans in American politics. He tweeted his suOn Wednesday, he Wednesday, heort for Ron DeSheart, the ultra-conservative Republican governor of Florida, for the 2024 presidential election on Wednesday. Hi into doubt his plans about Twitter's future role in public debate, especially given that the mid-term elections in the United States are just around the corner.
(With AFP)