SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

Post by scollet » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 9:26 AM UTC

zthrowaway wrote: post #427

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Activist employees are toxic to company culture. We created a rule that politics and religion were not appropriate topics at work. A couple of people quit in response, and morale improved dramatically.

It used to be social decorum to not talk about politics and religion at work. But the past 10 years everyone wants to be an activist now. I'd like to see more rules around this in every company. It kills productivity and really distracts from the company goals.

Post by scollet » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 9:33 AM UTC

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The workers have a right to organize a labor union. They have a right to go on strike and shut the company down. They have a right to critique any process or rule in the company that they might wish to stop. They have a right to weigh in on the consequences of any of the company's processes, goals, or aims. The workers have had these rights recognized in law for most of the last century.

Your first two “rights” (form a union, and if they do, to organize a strike) are in fact legally protected behavior in the US. Latter two are just made-up nonsense. No, they in fact do not have those “rights”, you just wish they did.

Post by scollet » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 9:34 AM UTC

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Here's my unpopular opinion - good riddance. It's not a free speech issue because SpaceX isn't a public square. It's a company, and companies are top down. If these employees are at Musk's company, then they had better be prepared to play by Musk's rules, and they did the exact opposite, essentially leading a mutiny against the boss and sowing discord within the company in the process. SpaceX isn't an activist organi…

That’s what you get if your priorities clash. One side wants to build cool shit and the other side wants to shit post on Twitter.

Post by scollet » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 9:42 AM UTC

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Generally OK, but I'm not sure if we should have different perspective for SpaceX considering it's funded by taxpayers' money, it's not out there competing in the free market...

> it's funded by taxpayers' money, Its getting taxpayers money because the official money hole called the NASA can't manage to launch anything in space anymore.

Post by pvaldes » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 10:02 AM UTC

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> A lot of people (myself included) really respect SpaceX and I think that's the last pillar on which Elon's reputation stands. Tesla honestly isn't that interesting and there's a real chance it gets eaten alive as other car manufacturers have caught up. Build quality wise? Definitely, Tesla has a lot of issues there which the established industry has ironed out and perfected over the last hundred years. Other proble…

As I understand it, there are other computer-controlled cars which are notable further along than Tesla. For example, Mercedes is will to take legal responsiblity for their system, while Tesla isn't.