Elon Musk has reportedly ‘canceled’ a Tesla engineer for complaining in regards to the CEO’s behaviors on social media.
As we lately reported, Tesla insiders are lastly beginning to converse out in opposition to Elon Musk over his more and more unhinged social media presence.
For instance, simply immediately, he known as CNN authorized analyst Norm Eisen’s household a “crime household” as a result of somebody wrongly claimed that his daughter obtained thousands and thousands of {dollars} from USAID when it was simply somebody with the identical final identify.
Nevertheless, it seems to be like Musk and Tesla are actively suppressing staff talking out.
The New York Instances stories that Tesla has fired Jared Ottmann, a supervisor of battery thermal provider industrialization engineering, over his complaints about Musk.
Ottmann, who has been at Tesla for six years, says that he has been elevating issues internally about Musk’s use of social media for the final 3 years, however he ramped up his effort final month after Musk’s salute on the Trump inauguration.
The engineer particularly took offense to a tweet that Musk posted within the aftermath of the inauguration. As a substitute of apologizing and saying that he didn’t imply to make a Nazi salute, Musk determined to assault the media for even suggesting that the gesture was a Sieg Heiland tweeted this:
Ottmann commented on the submit:
This submit by Tesla’s present CEO identify drops genocidal assholes as a joke and has 308,000 likes.
The engineer says that he raised the problem with Tesla and whereas he will get “personally assist”, he says the corporate stays silent about Musk’s habits:
Beginning in 2022 and particularly the final week I’ve raised the problem internally a number of instances, with managers, HR, authorized compliance, investor relations. And whereas overwhelmingly individuals supply private assist, Tesla as an organization has remained silent.
Ottmann, who has been promoted 4 instances in 6 years at Tesla, has now been let go.
Electrek’s Take
For a man who calls himself a “free speech absolutist” and “anti-cancel tradition”, he canceled this engineer fairly shortly when he didn’t like how he was exercising his free speech.
That is clearly an try at scaring different Tesla staff from talking out at Tesla.
It’s one among my fundamental issues in regards to the automaker: it’s not a meritocracy that pulls high engineering expertise anymore. One of many fundamental standards to work at Tesla now’s to assist its CEO, who’s off the deep finish.
