A bunch of SpaceX workers previously penned the open letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk and the company while identify themselves as “employees across the spectra of gender, ethnicity, seniority, and technical roles.”
SpaceX fired them, lol.
New York Post – […] SpaceX president and Musk ally Gwynne Shotwell said in a memo that the firm had “terminated a number of employees involved” in crafting the letter – noting the workers in question had “upset many” with an “unsolicited request” to add their signatures.
“The 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,” Shotwell said in the memo, which was obtained by The Verge.
Shotwell referred to the open letter campaign within the company as “unacceptable” and said the workers were fired after an investigation into their actions. The number of employees terminated wasn’t immediately clear. “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism,” Shotwell added. (read more)
We need more of this.
Let me reiterate —- “WE NEED MORE OF THIS” :):)
OOOHHHH so much more!
If everybody stands up to the wokism bullies, it will cease to exist
This is how you do….You don’t like it here? Pack your desk and get the hell out…
It helps when the people at the top of the org. aren’t Woke Bullies themselves, tho.
So far, SpaceX seems to be standing alone in that category.
Larry Ellison also has told folks to leave if they don’t like their workplace.
STAND!
Nice warm up. I would personally pay Musk if he let me start firing the trash at Twatter should he ever aquire it.
When you say “We need more of this” you mean more firing of COMMIEcrats. I agree totally
Use their own rule book:
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
They really do hate you without any cause or reason than that you oppose their ideology that is used to remove you from any and all actions, responses, and abilities.
Lefties are obsessed with sexual harassment. Suddenly they’ve “discovered” that Elon Musk made unseemly advances to a flight attendant on his private plane. Ironic, considering that Lefties otherwise promote sexual license and deviance nonstop to undermine our cultural mores. But, as you said, the rule is to hold the opposition to strict conformity to its own rules. Sex sells, so they can get immediate, sensational press coverage of their character assassination hit jobs.
Of course that is all alleged. The story comes from a “friend” and not directly from the “flight attendant” who has supposedly signed a non-disclosure.
Musk denies it and has pointed out: “Astute observers of my plane (and there many) will note that I don’t use a flight attendant. Moreover, only fruit & nuts are stocked on the plane. I use flights as an opportunity to fast.”
But remember it is okay to sexually harass under age children because they are now mature enough to make their own decisions regarding sex but they will not be mature enough to make a decision to purchase a gun until they are 21.
President Trump should hire Elon Musk to clean house in 2024!
Then . . . what would be the point of having Trump in the WH?
Needs to be updated to add the Trump Derangement Lobe.
Sorry Doug….found in our bin. 🙁
Praise the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy One of Israel! Sounds like Gwynne Shotwell is a very sane person!
Gwynne, SHOT-WELL and hit her target
…………..now that is quick wit!!!!
Watch the new Space X flick…..
She seems to be very grounded. Drops F bombs where applicable at times, she talks like a true professional, and speaks like a normal person, not like a woke jack ass.
My first impressions of her are good.
“Hey, guys… uhh in case you haven’t noticed… I’M TRYING TO LAND A FREAKING REUSABLE ROCKET ON MARS… FOCUS, PLEASE!!!”
Maybe the freshly-minted unemployed triggerati will pen an open letter to their parents asking for rent money.
“freshly-minted unemployed triggerati”
🤣 🤣 🤣
Triggerati. Outstanding. And we, the audience watching the firings, are the snickerati.
And Musk performs good bosskarati.
Bahahaha!~
You two are on a roll!
Hahahaha!
Im stealing that one! If you dont object!
Love it!
Ok, ok, mr piddles, you are hereby nominated for Winner of the Internet for the day.
The second paragraph made you the clear front runner. Well done!
I’d settle for one of these…
A younger Donald in the making. Former democrat turned Republican. Just like Ronald and the Donny.
The joke for years was a Republican was a Democrat who got mugged.
And these days, “mugged” can certainly include online “mugging”
Nobody understands these f*ckers better than a FORMER Dem.
In 2003, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, speaking on the legacy of Ronald Reagan,[21] noted:
This is true. But without the moral compass of Christianity and our code of ethics, current employers are firing people for not being woke. Because that sword Cuts both ways.
canned them !!!!! I LOVE THIS.
Enjoy your prison crafted by a WEF agent, who is NOT an American, has NO US roots, but is very happy to help imprison you and take your money forever.
And making you feel so smart about it!
See how smart you are following stinky – you’re so smart!
It is good to be cautious also. Musk is a bit of a wild card oh, but we shall see what we shall see.
There is a storm coming where some woke persons are gonna have a lesson in life.
So many are going broke…..national teachers association halving its members……because they want to arrest parents……. and a huge red wave coming to put Democrats out to pasture for many years to come…….
Assuming the full cheat machine can be over ridden by massive turnout.
Nancy Mace won her primary, what does that tell you?
DemRats and RINO’s are still going to cheat…..just putting that out there……..
Really enjoyed seeing Space-X fired those people; Winning by any other name.
it’s also the best way to end the cancel culture, by getting rid of those who practice it. Pretty sure they were under the impression they could get Musk cancelled; probably thought they could even get him fired for wrong-thinking like the peasants, er, employees, did with the co-founder of Mozilla, forcing him to resign because they didn’t like his speech via donations to a political cause they disapproved of.
How could these woketards think they would get Musk cancelled and fired at SpaceX? He owns the company!
They are learning the hard way that when your boss is a like a honey badger, you had best stay out of the way.
The company culture at SpaceX isn’t like that at Blue Origin or Amazon or any other woke corporation, Musk hires only the best and most driven people who have no time for globalist, progressive bullshit.
My bet is that there is little sympathy within SpaceX for these activists who thought that maybe they would stage a work slowdown or even strike and scare Musk into bending the knee to them.
The No Assholes policy speaks for itself…LOL~!
Elon ‘musk’ keep going! He’s on target!
……” “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism,” Shotwell added.”…..
Short, sweet, and to the point.
Putin/Musk 2024.
I wouldnt go that far bro….
Putin isnt an angel, and he for sure, has murdered his opponents. He isnt Xiden, I get it though……
Those Twitter woketards had better take notice of this action, when Musk assumes control of Twitter he’ll be absolutely merciless in implementing Order 66.
The goons were running around trying to force other people to sign it.
Bet that’s Standard Operating Procedure and it’s only now that they’ve finally been called out that it’s gotten exposed.
These people are the true Fascists and it blows my mind that so many on the Left can’t (or won’t?) see it.
Like a boss, Elon. This will certainly set the “tone” for the rest of the workforce. Now, the employees know they were hired to work, not woke.
It will also let the non-woke employees know that there won’t be any dire consequences if they choose not to go along with any woke nonsense that someone is trying to shove down their throat.
Work is for work and woke ain’t.
I am still a little weary of Elon Musk but I have to say that this is a rare display of common sense in our current world.
It ensures that everyone is allowed to express their opinions and beliefs freely. This is what tolerance looks like.
Thank you Elon!
Mess with The Bull, you get the horn.
Love it! Another one I love: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
I love, love, love handing out stupid prizes.
Being somewhat of a professional cynic that specializes pure passive aggressive behavior with a F-U kicker, this is right up my alley. My other half makes Mr Hyde blush.
(I also save a s*** ton of money by self diagnosing)😂
No kidding , I wish more companies would do the same. In my neck of the woods a deranged democrat with anti Trump stickers on his car drove his car into a Trump paraphernalia store. It has been running for a few years now and have only some minor protest over that time. This guy was deranged and set in motion by the mainstream media and the Narratives they sell and of course by the democrat party who sew Hate and Division . Nobody was hurt but that is a miracle. Not just two minutes earlier there was an adult and small child standing where the car cam through and at the speed he was going no doubt they would be dead. You probably won’t see much written about it because as we all know democrat Hate crimes just don’t happen.
Unfortunately severe levels of TDS bordering on psychosis is becoming more prevalent and will mostly likely explode at or after the midterms.
I fully predict the hardcore Democrats and far left progressives will stage attacks on MAGA supporters leading up to the elections, they are that batshit crazy and their levels of derangement are almost off the charts.
And the DOJ will just sit around on their thumbs and watch. Again.
They’re gonna start rioting and burning the moment the SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade. And AG Garland will turn a blind eye. and Chrissie Wray will just say, “they’re just an idea” whatever the heck that is supposed to mean.
I live in California and haven’t put a bumper sticker on my car since the early 90’s- if the signage isn’t pro democrat plan on your vehicle being trashed.
Such nice people aren’t they?
That was the Trump store in Massachusetts. Hope the criminal is prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but being MA, I won’t hold my breath.
Elon takes a lesson from Cosmo Spacely (founder of Spacely Space Sprockets, Inc.) and jettisons some riffraff the new old-fashioned way. Oorah!
SpaceX brings new meaning to the phrase ‘showing you to the airlock’.
“Jettisons”, heh heh. I see what you did there.
“Anybody can be replaced. Anybody.” – Told to me decades ago.
Goes with another one we all lived by in my tech career……….
“No one, no matter how critical, is above the company”
Remember:
The boss may not always be right but he’s always the boss!
I admire Mr. Musk…
True genius with some class…
Want to be Woke? Then start your own business using your pliable moral code. Perhaps emulate CNN, Netflix and Disney. Cut your worth by 50 to 80% in 6 months.
Here’s the message:
“Nobody likes a whiner. Nobody likes you.”
Buh-by!
Some will wake up in the morning with no reason to get out of bed and say to themselves “WTF happened”. It will take them one step closer to maturity. For those that don’t have that shock, they will for ever be an adolescent in an adults body.
It may be the first time they didn’t receive a “participation” trophy.
Remember thinking yesterday that every single woke fool
who signed that complaint letter . . . should be fired!
It’s not enough to just flip Congress. We must ALL of us deliver retribution to every level, from DC to voters, and that retribution must be brutal. No more optics, no more high road, no more other cheek. Make. Them. Pay.
If he makes it thru the trial…Oppps, wrong thread.
Did these geniuses not realize the consequences?
I suppose now we’ll hear about the lawsuits….wonder how far they’ll get in Texas.
“SpaceX”
pffft…
‘outer space’ is as fake as a $3 bill ….
Please elaborate on the last thing.
Inquiring minds wish to know.
” elaborate”
‘outer space’ … it violates major natural laws;
cf: https://tinyurl.com/5n8jaztk ;
☞ keep up-to-date with the ‘Flat Earth debate’ ☜
If you believe in the flat earth theory, that’s your prerogative.
“prerogative”
what-ever;
but: you gotta go where all the evidence points…
No more Heinekens for you!
Do you believe your own eyes?
Here’s an experiment for you. Go outside at night in a dark place, about 2 hours after sunset, lay on your back and look at the sky.
If you just look around for about 20 minutes, you will see a couple of satellites whiz by overhead. They will be lit up by the sun that is below the horizon for you, but it will still be “day” for the satellites, since they are high in orbit, around a spherical Earth.
Spacecraft really do orbit a spherical earth. I designed sensors that took pictures from satellites in orbit. I got to see the pictures that it took. My team got to task it to take pictures of our work site and other places, where we simultaneously took measurements from aircraft and on the ground to calibrate the space sensor.
Then do some book learning an learn about map projections. All 2 dimensional maps distort the land masses. The fact that the moving map in the airplane doesn’t look like the ground below is due to the inaccuracies of map projections (& the ineptitude of the software people that wrote the code for the display).
Get a globe. Get a piece of string. Put one end of the string on your starting point, put the other end on the destination. This is the path the plane will fly, since it is the shortest distance and maximize profit by burning minimum fuel. A good one might be for a flight from somewhere in the midwest out to Hawaii. See what the plane will pass over.
Then go get a Mercator projection map and put the string from your midwest city to Hawaii. Does the 2D map show the flight passing over the same areas?
You have now just solved the biggest mystery that drives the flat Earth narrative.
Van Allen belt, look it up.
Businesses have had 40 years of good times to accumulate this woke fat/(sh*t).
Little do they know, their feckless leader and current White House Occupant is creating the exact necessary conditions to boot them all to the curb or go down with the woke ship (disney/netfux).
tWhat we need is for every bureaucrat in the US Gov’t to be fired.
Then rehire those who fulfill the competency requirements, while excluding those with the usual cultish belief system – all the Gender/CRT/DEI/ESG nonsense.
They’ll be pushback – so tell those who won’t accept a generous settlement and pension that they will be re-assigned to some little town in middle America to twiddle heir thumbs at their current remuneration – forever more.
It’ll cost a bit – but will be well worth the $billions, or even $trillions.
Then, we start anew with a clean slate – and PDJT gets to vet all employees.
Hope we’ve been keeping track of every single loony policy implemented by O’bummer and O’biden so they can be reversed on Day 1 of the new administration.
Impossible you say? Yet it’s the only way of draining the swamp (coupled with a ban on bribery and full on term limits)
DC stopped being a swamp a long time ago – it’s now a cesspool.
I worked in D.C. for awhile. Getting rid of the senior bureaucrats is easy. Just fire them since they are SES (Senior Executive Service) employees. The real problem children to contend with are the GS (Government Service) employees. They can’t be fired. That is where all the “corrupt corporate memory” exists. SES’s come and go. GS employees are there for life like Supreme Court Justices. That has to change. Its not fair to the taxpayer, but nothing else is either these days
We just need a Exec and Chief of Staff who have 1) a plan and 2) the guts to clean house on day one. Trump severely underestimated the establishment and the swamp. Rush Limbaugh tried to help him early in his first year, but for too long Trump was just too arrogant to listen and thought he could negotiate with the terrorist bureaucrats in our own government – the establishment and swamp. We see how that turned out. Trump finally listened, but he could have saved himself a lot of pain and maybe hos presidency of he listened sooner and too decisive action to fire people.
Biden cleaned house immediately upon assuming office. Democrats do it all the time. Its the Republiwonts who are too weak and stoopid and always try to keep some of the members of the previous (democrat) regime around thinking they can work with them while they sabotage (leak) everything and undermine the new Presidents and their administrations. Remember the Republiwonts motto is appease, appease, appease liberalism instead of defeating liberalism at the polling booths. That’s why we are at this point.
Don’t miss the plot here. Our number one problem is Republiwonts (aka RINOS for other folks).
Jim Jordan and the Freedom Caucus support for Kevin McCarthy as next Speaker of the House is extremely troubling and you should worry. Remember McCarthy hung out with Eric Cantor and John Boener. Boener gave Obama everything he wanted. MCarthy hated Trump. Why doesn’t anyone in the Freedom Caucus want to lead and be Speaker? Isn’t that odd? Think about that.
Blessings to all.
R & R
Jim Jordan has been gotten to somehow and I’m not sure how. He has been sending a somewhat mixed message for a couple of years now. If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you. And Washington is the abyss.
It’s also fun to talk about getting rid of people and cleaning house but the big question is how how how do you do that? You need the power to do it and we just don’t have the power. Institutional or otherwise.
Reassigned to middle America to count those cow farts they are all concerned are destroying the atmosphere.
Using corporate IT to personally attack a company employee? Not very bright. That’d get you fired no matter who you attacked.
The woke have no scruples, no boundaries, and have been brainwashed to think they run the show.
They can run the show. Run it right into a ditch but that doesn’t bother them. All that matters to them is that they are in the driver’s seat and we are in the cattle cars.
Like a Boss.
cross posted at “Your Fired” – https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/2485/fired
Ohhh man.
That must have felt soooooo good. Canning these idiots is like icing on the cake.
Second look at The Apprentice starring Elon Musk?
Well done!
I agree with the sentiment that this should set an example for other businesses.
And a wake up call for employees.
Good job 👍 Mr. Musk!
I believe this headline should more realistically read, “SpaceX Fires Woke Worker Activists Who Attacked,Intimidated and Bullied Fellow Workers”.
It really is off the mark to claim the Wokees were fired for bitching about Elon Musk. They were fired for attacking fellow workers. I am surprised Sundance covers it this way?
Imagine their next job interview:
Mr/Ms/ Whatever you identify as: Why were you let go?
The answers will be epic, the potential employer (unless woke themselves) will be just as epic.
Mr/Ms/ Whatever you identify as: Let’s hear you say, “Would you like fries with that order?”
“no need for this kind of overreaching activism”
That phrase should be on the lips of every corporate leader everywhere.
That’s how you do it.
We do need more of this.
I don’t trust Musk as far as I could throw him. If you ask me, he’s positioning for a run for Pres.
“But he’s not a natural-borne US citizen!”
LOL! When has that mattered?
At most high tech companies in the space industry, the woke comes from the top and they eliminate employees who don’t agree with the lies.
This is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. It is like somehow the CEOs all got replaced by communists about 10 years ago. Before that, politics was not generally welcome in the workplace. You were encouraged to do that on your own time outside of work. Now that’s all the brass wants to talk about. Endless “equity”, “feelings”, “inclusion”, support for sexual perversion, anti-white male and family, etc. Ultra far left stuff.
Some of the brass are even starting to put their pronouns in their e-mail tag-lines. If they start enforcing that BS, my pronouns are going to be very offensive and ridiculous.
How about “Your Excellence, demigod” or “brontosaurus, pigmy marmoset”. Alinsky – hold them to their rules. They have to accept what I identify as, since it is “My Truth”. They claim they espouse “inclusivity”! Who is to judge me, just because I identify as a pigmy marmoset?
We have been seeing the same garbage in the advertising biz on Madison Avenue for years. It’s relentless. No mention of Father’s day but they’re all over Juneteenth whatever that is.
Instead of Memorial Day and Father’s Day, we get emails about Juneteenth and Pervert Pride month every dadgum day. Oh and they “strongly encourage” you to participate. You have to make like you are clicking through and watching their stupid videos — which you can shrink to nothing and mute the sound on because you are working remotely, thank God — because you know they police the click through rate.
Whenever a corporation decides to go woke they do not see my $$any longer. Have not been in a Target since they got involved in the bathroom fiasco. Businesses have to learn to stop catering to the so called woke crowd (I call them the stupid crowd) or lose our business.
if one can get past Musk’s fealty for CCP manufacturing I suppose he’s got some decent qualities.
Naturally, the leftists are whining about free speech. Yet cannot cite where these employees were not allowed the freedom to speak.
What part of their brains doesn’t understand they WORK for the company? How they FEEL is never on a resume or Scope of Work.
I wonder how many large corporations would love to start firing these little snowflakes but have instead adopted woke-pc’ism just because they’re afraid of the Leftist mob? I know for a fact that one MAJOR investment bank backed away from the BLM nonsense after getting overwhelming blowback from their advisors.
We need more firms doing this.
Just a reminder. Lee Harvey Oswald was a left wing activist. He would be a hero in todays Democrat Party.
I guess they forgot they get paid to work.