> It can't be good working conditions to have a small group of people playing victim and antagonizing others

So you're saying musk should step down?

He's been tweeting random memes and joke content for many years. The only thing that changed recently is he said he might vote Rep rather than Dem.

Musk was a fool for bringing politics into this. But its also pretty dishonest for employees to claim to feel intimidated and bullied just because he's considering endorsing a different political party.

You aren't engaging in argument, you're just doing this childlike back and forth of "Yes I am!" "No you aren't!".

Yes, actually, you're right, at the same time my comment is upvoted pretty well and yours is greyed, which pretty much sums up HN in [current year].

Your snark makes no sense. Are you saying Elon is a small group of people?

Clearly I was talking about the group who sent out the unsolicited internal letter in work channels.

Musk is the one doing the distraction.

You don't have to follow Elon's Twitter.

However you do have to be in work channels, and this group of people sent the unsolicited letter in those channels.

And now we're all having to talk about the letter.

Musk's behavior and actions directly impact things like hiring, employee retention and more

You can argue you don't have to follow Elon's twitter, but when you try to hire someone and they quote Elon's behavior as a reason why not to work for your company what do you expect?

I find it ironic that you're worried about a 'woke culture' while speaking on behalf of other people's feelings that you don't know or work with.

Could you please define "woke culture" for me?

Topics that usually include "racial or social discrimination and injustice". They are introduced to the workplace in many different forms and reasons. When it comes to the workplace, some are justified some aren't. There are lots of social issues that should remain muted or non-existent in the workplace, but yea it also just depends on the situation.

Thank you for your response - I have a follow-up question: Is "Treat your colleagues that may be different from you with respect" woke culture?

Conversely, could this not describe Musk's/SpaceX's response to this: complaining about a letter rather than working with them?

I don't think anyone has accused the letter writers of not getting their job done. So far it seems this is all about the boss having a thin skin.

They're accused of making employees feel "uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied".

Without knowing the details of the situation, I'm not sure we can confidently know whether these employees were being jerks or management were being jerks.

> Victimhood of feelings sums it up.

Like firing people for being critical of one's Lord and Savior?

They were fired for badgering other employees with a letter complaining about tweets.

Complaining about letters instead of working?

Sticks, stones and letters may break my bones.

That sounds just like Musk’s job description!

I don’t hear anyone talking, let alone complaining, about Satya tweets, or Cook tweets, or Zuckerberg tweets, or any other CEO. I don’t hear people discussing publicity stunts performed by CEOs not named Elon Musk. I get that you’re trying to troll but you’re not trying hard enough.

Marketing teams write their tweets. They never say anything interesting or remotely human.

Do they tweet stuff like this?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496

Wait, this is exactly what Elon Musk himself does. Remember the whole "pedo guy" incident? And all of the Musk noise recently about being conservative and buying twitter?

"One rule for he, another rule for thee"