An employee describes dark years at SpaceX.

A SpaceX employee says that she spent seven years working at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California enduring sexual abuse, unequal pay, discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, in a new lawsuit against the company. But her story paints a much graver picture than those individual words can convey, describing widespread harassment and coordinated action to not only enable but also later give cover for sexual coercion, by a man she says was her direct supervisor.

  • horsey@lemm.eeEnglish
    372·
    8 months ago

    Shitty company culture goes to the top. Of course Elton would hire people who act like that and he would give not even close to a fuck himself - after all, this is a guy who exposes himself to his personal flight attendants and buys ponies for women he harasses, starts affairs and has children with his employees.

  • nutsack@lemmy.world
    13·
    8 months ago

    I’m not excusing Tesla, and I don’t give a shit about Tesla, but I have to say that this is basically every tech company. They are being sued like this constantly, and are usually settling out of court to avoid embarrassment.

    In Vietnam it is even worse because they don’t sue the company. They just sort of deal with it, or they quit their job. In the best case they get a whole bunch of people to coordinate quitting at the same time.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      34·
      8 months ago

      Maybe she needed a job because this is a capitalist society and people without jobs often end up on the streets and that was the job she was best qualified for?

      Can we please stop blaming workers for who hires them and how they treat them?

    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
      171·
      8 months ago

      Freeways aren’t obligated to cater to pedestrians. Workplaces are obligated to foster safe environments for all employees. You can think what you want of things connected to musk but it still SpaceX’s fault at the end of the day.