SpaceX has fired at least five employees involved in circulating a letter around the company that was critical of CEO Elon Musk, two people familiar with the company told CNBC.
The open letter was circulated and signed by an unknown number of SpaceX employees earlier this week. Musk is the controlling shareholder of the privately held company, with his trust owning about 78% of SpaceX's voting shares as of last year. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.SpaceX has fired at least five employees involved in circulating a letter around the company that was critical of CEO, was circulated and signed by an unknown number of SpaceX employees earlier this week.
Musk is the controlling shareholder of the privately held company, with his trust owning about 78% of SpaceX's voting shares as of last year.
No. There is free speech. One can freely choose to quit SpaceX first and say whatever Criticism one wants. There is no free lunch in the world. One wants democracy, freedom of speech and liberty but does not want to give up anything, including their payroll. CNBC wish this?
Freedom of speach for whom?
All I did was try to turn the whole company against the majority owner. Why was I fired?
Smart. We’ve seen time after time a loud minority of employees disrupts a business, business kowtows, minority assumes it has power. Start firing the small group of woketivists instead of feeding their narcissism and delusions and our society will be all the better for it
Hey that’s worse than Donald Trump!
Openly criticizing your boss, let alone the founder and CEO. Circulating a letter with the intention of restraining his actions. Releasing it to the press. People are so dumb. Of course they got fired.
This is the guy people think is a champion of free speech? If he takes over Twitter, better not say anything mean. Everyone has a ‘block’ button, but Elon will have a ‘banned’ button.
Good
The way his mental state has been, they were probably his top engineers.
Good! They didn't seem happy so win-win
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