SpaceX Fires Woke Employees Over Public Letter Smearing Elon Musk

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A group of left-wing activists working at rocket company SpaceX, apparently thought they can order their employers around like they do at some woke companies in America.

The woke employees wrote and distributed an open letter smearing their chief executive Elon Musk. Apparently they are triggered by his 'non-politically correct' and anti-woke tweets and public statements, especially since the announcement of his deal to acquire Twitter.

The letter which became public on Wednesday, circulated within the company internal Microsoft Team's channel with about 2,600 members.

The letter calls the world's richest man's public comments and tweeting “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment,” and demanded that SpaceX’s leaders “publicly address and condemn Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior” and “define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior.”

Since he announced his interest in acquiring Twitter last April, Musk and his companies have faced smear campaigns by far-left groups. United States' left-wing President Joe Biden has also sent government regulators against the South African-born entrepreneur's companies.

In May, far-left media outlet Business Insider published a hit piece claiming that Musk propositioned a SpaceX flight attendant for a sexual massage during a flight to London in 2016. He denied the accusation, calling it “utterly untrue.”

“As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every Tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company," the woke employees whined in the public letter. "It 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.”

Following the news of the letter Wednesday, Critics online, wondered why these employees thought that they have the right to publicly tell their employer how to behave or what to tweet about. Many predicted that SpaceX will fire the employees.

Well, on Thursday, news of their firing came in an email to employees from SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell.

In the email which was promptly leaked to the media, Shotwell wrote:

You may have received an unsolicited request from a small group of SpaceX employees for your signature on an “open letter” yesterday and your participation in a related survey. Based on diverse employee feedback, this has upset many. That is, 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. Employees also complained that it interfered with their ability to focus on and do their work. We have 3 launches within 37 hours for critical satellites this weekend, we have to support the astronauts we delivered to the ISS and get cargo Dragon back to the flight-ready, and after receiving environmental approval early this week, we are on the cusp of the first orbital launch attempt of Starship. We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism — our current leadership team is more dedicated to ensuring we have a great and ever-improving work environment than any I have seen in my 35-years career.

We solicit and expect our employees to report all concerns to their leadership, senior management, HR, or Legal. But blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is unacceptable, goes against our documented handbook policy, and does not show the strong judgement needed to work in this very challenging space transportation sector. We performed an investigation and have terminated a number of employees involved.

I am sorry for this distraction. Please stay focused on the SpaceX mission, and use your time at work to do your best work. This is how we will get to Mars.

Apparently Musk, unlike some other CEOs, wants his employees to focus on delivering best products and services to customers, and not on some business-ruining woke activism.

Earlier in the month, the unconventional CEO made it clear to the the company’s workers via email that he is not a fan of the post-coronavirus pandemic 'work-from-home' fad. He said they must spend at least 40 hours in the office or face firing.

Musk repeated his preference for in-person work culture during his first all-hands Thursday, with Twitter employees.