"Dopak said her married supervisor pressured her into having a sexual relationship that resulted in a pregnancy. He offered her $100,000 to have an abortion, which she declined, and then SpaceX allowed him to transfer $3.7 million in stock options out of his name to avoid paying child support" 🤢
People who say Elon Musk isn't actually an innovator really need to consider all the groundbreaking work he has done pushing the boundaries of gross corporate culture. You wouldn't be able to even imagine a lot of this stuff without his bold leadership.
Not only did he sexually predate on an employee, offering a horse for sex to a company flight attendant who was giving him a massage (typing that felt like having a stroke), but also impregnated a direct report... though apparently through IVF, they claim there was no sexual or romantic relationship
…he offered to buy someone a horse if they satisfied his libido?!
Come on. Come the fck on.
This movie has plowed right past camp and into the discount dvd bin at a dollar store. Writing is atrocious. I want my money back.
I thought the bar was set with the whole “I hired a doctor known for sexual assault to help fudge the system so we didn’t have to pay workers comp or report injuries” thing.
Or the “I tried to get cops to kill a dude bc I can” thing.
Or the “employees take a Lyft to the hospital” thing.
Not sure I'd read the full story.
She was working shifts (not salary!) as a flight attendant on Musk's personal (SpaceX) jet, all around the world. They got her to pay her own money to become a licensed masseuse, then a naked Musk, who'd clearly chatted her up, propositioned her, offering money.
Then the company retaliates against her for saying no (fewer shifts), leading to her filing a complaint. Ends in a meeting room at SpaceX with a professional mediator and Elon Musk himself - then SpaceX (apparently not Musk!) pays her $250K to never say the names "Elon Musk" or "SpaceX" again.
Don't forget they are trying to get the NLRB ruled unconstitutional as well.
Unfortunately some space nerds don't care because rockets.
I too am space nerd but I'd rather SpaceX fail than succeed in what they are trying to do.
Perhaps. But also there's lots of workplaces with lots of money where this stuff doesn't happen to the degree that has been described in multiple court filings about these companies.
