It should be a pretty obvious that there is strong correlation between employee dissatisfaction and employee performance, so a lot of these situations can be pr

It should be a pretty obvious that there is strong correlation between employee dissatisfaction and employee performance, so a lot of these situations can be pretty noisy he-said/she-said cases. A lot of people can be publicly critical of a CEO, and the subset of those who get fired for performance reasons can have reason to complain about it being retaliatory. But let's be real here. This is Elon Musk. There's probably an obvious paper trail. And anyone who is actually being terminated for performance at a large company should be on a PIP (performance improvement plan) long before they are terminable, so it would be obvious to all involved that it was not retaliatory.