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The most disgusting fact I learned in this article is that Shotwell personally backed Musk on denying claims he sexually harassed the flight attended. What? An
by numair 4y ago
The most disgusting fact I learned in this article is that Shotwell personally backed Musk on denying claims he sexually harassed the flight attended. What?
Anyone who knows these people and their friends knows that the situation as described in the media was not out of the realm of possibility. Unless Shotwell, COO of SpaceX, was on that plane and witnessed exactly what happened, she is not qualified to assist in burying someone’s totally insane traumatic experience.
My fellow HN readers, the space startup scene is growing fast. Don’t work for a CEO/COO that is willing to throw any and everyone else under the bus to ensure they can continue to collect their own multi-billion dollar paycheck for “making the world more connected.” This has shades of Sheryl Sandberg all over it — and we know how that worked out for society.
The government needs to work harder to build competition against these people, and regulators need to be a lot more careful about allowing them to blast all of their crap into space.
I would guess we are a few years away from some former SpaceX employees with exit liquidity revealing the dirty truth as a means of handling their own PTSD.
- cloutchaser 4y agoIndeed, if you don’t want to work for musk, go work for bezos and build rockets for him. I for one think the timing of the sexual claim makes it obvious it’s political, but no one has to work for musk. So leave if you want to, if musk is so offensive. Not everyone company is an ESG obsessed multinational.
- numair 4y agoThe fact that you’ve inserted “political” into a fact-based happened-or-didn’t situation says more about you, and your willingness to buy into people’s conspiracy theories, than anything about the situation. SpaceX is operating in a highly regulated industry and shoving crap into space, which affects every person on Earth for the next several decades. They are way more accountable to society than almost every “multinational” you can think of.
- cloutchaser 4y agoA friend of the employee made unsubstantiated claims right when Elon was doing his Twitter thing, and threatening the stranglehold of establishment lefts information control. Yes, it’s political. Why didn’t the employee go to the police? Why didn’t her friend reveal this information years ago. Your point is ridiculously naive.
- smcl 4y ago> Why didn’t the employee go to the police? You're calling someone naive, while also asking why an employee didn't go to the cops with an accusation of sexual harrassment against their employer who is the richest man in the world?
- cloutchaser 4y agoBecause if she did, she'd have a paper trail, and some leg to actually stand on when making accusations right in the midst of a political shitshow.
- smcl 4y agoThe victim isn't the one out there making these accusations. To be honest I imagine she just wants to live her life without worrying about being harrassed further by a bunch of Elon Musk fans demanding to see a paper trail or asking why she didn't go to the police
- fzeroracer 4y agoWe all know what would actually happen in this situation. A bunch of angry Musk fans would claim that it's made up, the papers are fake, that they're a political hitjob etc followed by self-made investigators harassing her at every step. Or Musk would just hire another detective to follow her around and call her a pedophile as he seems to do whenever someone gets visible enough. There is no level of evidence that would meet standards, and the reason why this became a 'political shitshow' was because Musk caught wind of the story ahead of time and as powerful people often do, tried to spin it into an us-vs-them story.
- scollet 4y ago
- kortilla 4y ago> Unless Shotwell, COO of SpaceX, was on that plane and witnessed exactly what happened, she is not qualified to assist in burying someone’s totally insane traumatic experience. Or maybe, just maybe, she knows more about the case than armchair experts like yourself? She would have been involved the investigation/settlement review so would know the full details.