{"id":1520480,"date":"2022-06-17T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520480"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:19:07","slug":"get-woke-go-broke-spacex-fires-employees-who-wrote-a-letter-blasting-elon-musks-behavior-and-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/get-woke-go-broke-spacex-fires-employees-who-wrote-a-letter-blasting-elon-musks-behavior-and-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Woke, Go Broke: SpaceX Fires Employees Who Wrote A Letter Blasting Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018Behavior\u2019 And \u2018Values\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fget-woke-go-broke-spacex-fires-employees-who-wrote-a-letter-blasting-elon-musks-behavior-and-values%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520480&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> employees circulated an open letter criticizing CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> for his \u201cbehavior in the public sphere.\u201d Those employees now find themselves out of a job, according to a Friday report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/17\/technology\/spacex-employees-fired-musk-letter.html?searchResultPosition=1\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElon\u2019s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks,\u201d the letter, first obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/16\/23170228\/spacex-elon-musk-internal-open-letter-behavior\">The Verge<\/a>, asserted. \u201cAs our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX \u2014 every tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The employees also said that \u201cit 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,\u201d exhorting SpaceX to \u201cswiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon\u2019s personal brand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those responsible for the Wednesday letter were fired by Thursday afternoon, the Times reported on the basis of three employees\u2019 confirmation and an email obtained from SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and\/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views,\u201d Shotwell wrote. \u201cWe have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred weeks after a flight attendant accused Musk of exposing himself to her several years ago, touching her, and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage. Shotwell likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spacex-president-tells-employees-she-does-not-believe-elon-musk-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">dismissed the allegations<\/a> to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, I believe the allegations to be false; not because I work for Elon, but because I have worked closely with him for 20 years and never seen nor heard anything resembling these allegations,\u201d Shotwell said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also came as Musk made headlines for announcing that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-tips-hat-toward-ron-desantis-to-be-next-president-of-the-united-states\">cast his ballot<\/a> for Mayra Flores \u2014 a Mexican-American Republican congressional candidate who won a historically Democratic district in southern Texas \u2014 after earlier announcing that he would vote Republican in this year\u2019s midterm elections. When asked online about who he was leaning toward supporting in the 2024 presidential election, Musk pointed to \u201cDeSantis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been critical of other technology firms for their tendency toward radical progressivism. When Netflix shares plummeted earlier this year, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/get-woke-go-broke-elon-musk-says-woke-mind-virus-makes-netflix-unwatchable-as-shares-plummet-20\">pinned the blame<\/a> on the \u201cwoke mind virus\u201d and affirmed that it represents \u201cthe biggest threat\u201d to civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is also in the midst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/freedom-of-speech-and-freedom-of-reach-elon-musk-tells-twitter-employees-users-should-be-able-to-tweet-pretty-outrageous-things\">purchasing Twitter<\/a> for $44 billion and taking it private. He told the social media giant\u2019s employees in a Thursday meeting that users should be able to post \u201cpretty outrageous things\u201d as the platform prioritizes \u201cfreedom of speech,\u201d but not necessarily \u201cfreedom of reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has frequently encouraged Silicon Valley \u2014 and the United States at large \u2014 to reaffirm a commitment to free expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-torches-mainstream-institutions-for-extreme-antibody-reaction-to-free-speech\">said<\/a> in April, noting that the \u201cextreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX employees circulated an open letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk for his \u201cbehavior in the public sphere.\u201d Those employees now find themselves out of a job, according to a Friday report from The New York Times. \u201cElon\u2019s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1510016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}