SpaceX Employees Receive Pink Slip For Shocking Reason

Elon Musk is all for free speech on Twitter.

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Apparently, it seems the same doesn’t hold true for his company.

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Several employees banded together to write an open letter to SpaceX execs.

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They asked SpaceX execs to “condemn Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior.”

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However, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell turned around and fired them instead.

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Shotwell sent out an email to employees that was published in The Verge.

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Shotwell said that SpaceX “terminated a number of employees involved.”

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Shotwell wrote, “We have too much critical work to accomplish.”

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She added that there is “no need for this kind of overreaching activism.”

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