SpaceX employees fired after writing letter criticizing Elon Musk

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Calls to mind the glory daze of communist party activism from the early 1900s to the 1940s. At least guidelines against employee harassment work both ways -- can also give the boot to infiltrating agitators recruited by the Leftangelical Establishment, that has ideological grievances against Musk. 
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022...-elon-musk

EXCERPTS: At least five employees were fired by the private rocket company SpaceX after drafting and circulating an open letter criticizing founder Elon Musk and calling on executives at the startup to make the company’s work culture more inclusive, according to two people familiar with the matter.

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that SpaceX had fired employees associated with the letter, citing three employees with knowledge of the situation.

It had not detailed the number of employees who had been terminated.

SpaceX’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, sent an email saying the company had investigated and “terminated a number of employees involved” with the letter, the New York Times said.

The newspaper said Shotwell’s email said employees involved with circulating the letter had been fired for making other staff feel “uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views”.

[...] Shotwell, who leads much of the company’s day-to-day business, has said she will enforce SpaceX’s “zero tolerance” standards against employee harassment... (MORE - details)

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not ok to circulate media inside your work place without managerial approval
simple
be it for gun laws or LGBTQi2+ laws or media advertising some republican convention

its against basic corporate policy
always has been

additionally (because i have worked with this legal side of things for some years and had to enforce it before it became an official problem)

just walking up to a staff member and requesting them to sign something non work related is a breach and liable to a complaint for undue pressure or harassment.

the correct procedure is to ask your manager 1st and then if it gets agreed to by management then you can place it in a staff break-out area

interrupting peoples work or private break times with such things is liable to get a formal warning if it has not been approved by management.

these are standard standing rules in most work places
any office type scenario they need to be policed carefully to avoid disrupting teams and work & must be skillfully interrupted to prevent creating a negative atmosphere.