SpaceX reported to blaze employees critical of CEO Elon Musk

SpaceX reported to blaze employees critical of CEO Elon Musk

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — SpaceX, the rocket ship firm sprint by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has fired some employees associated accompanied by inside an not shut letter that blasted the colorful billionaire for his behavior, according to media reports.

The reports published Friday cited an email from Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president, saying the firm had terminated employees who place accompanied by every one one other with every one other accompanied by circulated the letter. The letter writers denounced Musk for actions that they said are a "frequent leap of distraction accompanied by every one one other accompanied by embarrassment for us, mostly inside recent weeks."

The New York Times was the earliest outlet to report the purge, based on details from trio employees familiar accompanied by the situation. The employees were not named.

It's unclear how numerous SpaceX workers lost their jobs, nevertheless Shotwell left-hand no indeed indeed uncertainty that the firm believed they had crossed an intolerable line.

"The letter, solicitations accompanied by every one one other accompanied by general procedure made employees exist inside be in touch uncomfortable, intimidated accompanied by every one one other accompanied by bullied, and/or angry since the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views," Shotwell wrote inside her email, according to the Times . ""We have excessively a a large amount of critical labour to fulfil accompanied by every one one other accompanied by no indeed indeed need for this type of overreaching activism."

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The firings occurred Thursday — the same day Musk addressed Twitter employees for the earliest hour dated concerning his $44 billion deal to add that communal media labour to his labour empire. The buy is inside limbo while Musk tries to determine whether Twitter has been concealing the number of fake accounts on its platform.

As the Twitter drama unfolded, another report emerged t titfer Musk had paid $250,000 to a flying attendant to quash a potential reproductive harassment legal deed opposed to him. Musk denied the reproductive harassment allegations, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Shotwell last month sent not here an email to SpaceX employees saying she exist convinced by the accusations were false.

In recent weeks, Musk has excessively crudely mocked the looks of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Twitter accompanied by every one one other accompanied by posted a poop emoji all over an online discussion accompanied by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.

The not shut letter from SpaceX employees criticizing Musk asserted that some of his tweets sent not here to his 98 million followers cast the firm inside a poverty-stricken light.

"As our CEO accompanied by every one one other accompanied by most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen while the face of SpaceX — every one one tweet that Elon sends is a de facto condition statement by the company," the not shut letter said. "It is critical to build understandable to our teams accompanied by every one one other accompanied by to our potential talent pool that his messaging does not reflect our work, our mission, or our values."

SpaceX reported to blaze employees critical of CEO Elon Musk