Comment by Veserv
16 hours ago
Say it is not so. Company that likes illegally discharging wastewater [1][2] run by man who leads companies to dump toxic waste into city water systems as soon as the inspectors leave [3][4][5] with a company that has multiple times the industry-average injury rate and actively sought to bury it by ignoring mandatory reporting requirements for multiple years [6] defends and denies poor safety practices that expose workers to dangerous chemicals and fires them for the audacity to complain about illegal unsafe working conditions.
This repeated pattern of illegal, safety-regressive behavior must be a fluke. Frankly, if the leadership creates cultures that harm their workers and where retaliation against workers was normal, then you would expect that to occur at other companies they run. Like, some kind of successful lawsuit where workers complained about their supervisors calling all their black coworkers the N-word and all the swastikas on the walls then were reprimanded for bringing it up [7] where the judge legally declared the companies "conduct was reprehensible and repeated"[8] and awards in excess of the standard maximum were "appropriate in light of the endemic racism at the Tesla factory and Tesla's repeated failure to rectify it"[9].
See, the rampant disregard for their workers and retaliation against workers is not at all in their corporate DNA all the way to the top. Just your regular old California Bay Area company where workers are called the N-word [10] and get retaliated against.
[1] https://payloadspace.com/spacex-back-up-to-its-neck-in-disch...
[2] https://www.sacurrent.com/news/federal-government-fines-elon...
[3] https://fortune.com/2025/11/08/boring-company-drilling-fluid...
[4] https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunn...
[5] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26184164-tbc-state-l...
[6] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-m...
[7] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06...
[8] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06... Page 29
[9] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06... Page 1
[10] I mean seriously, where do you even find people who will use the N-word in the Bay Area. Did they put all their job ads in the KKK and Neo-Nazi Bay Area Facebook groups? Is it like one of those anti-spy tests where you have people say: "Death to (insert country leader here)", but you have to use the N-word to get hired?
Having personally known one of the people who would have said that and possibly named in the complaint and ultimately fired (far too late imho), many were relocated from other parts of the country including the Mid-west.
I was gonna say Antioch, but that could do it too.