Elon Musk told SpaceX workers not to wear safety clothes because he doesn't like bright colors: report
Elon Musk told SpaceX workers not to wear safety clothes because he doesn't like bright colors: report
Hundreds of SpaceX employees have been hurt in workplace accidents, including eight incidents that led to amputations, a Reuters investigation found.
Three former SpaceX supervisors told Reuters that Musk would have machinery painted in industrial safety yellow repainted to black or blue because of he didn't like how it looked. The ex-supervisors also said that some workers were told not to wear yellow safety vests when Musk was on site.
It says they couldn't wear yellow safety vests, but I'm guessing, at least at first, that they didn't have two colors of safety vest available for all employees.
And repainting machines unsafe colors because you don't like yellow?
Just criminal assholeishness. If he wasn't so rich, he would be charged with reckless endangerment.
The worst part is that this isn’t new behavior. Musk pulled this same shit at the Tesla factories; forbidding safety yellow from being used, having the warning alarms disabled on forklifts because it annoyed him, etc.
I am glad the veil has been lifted for more people though so they can see Musk for who he always has been.
Musk: I removed all beeps and horns and warnings from my vehicles and spacecraft because it annoys me.
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We can not let this horribly inept person be the one to lead the way to Mars colonization.
We’re all doomed if that’s the only way to survive the destruction of the Earth.
Years ago I was told that Tesla had tried to resist rules that would require high voltage cables to be orange, and that they only changed them to orange after a firefighter died cutting through one of those cables.
I don't have any documentation of this, but I can at least say that it would be consistent.
Is he pretending to be like some super charismatic genius autistic master mind by pretending to be disturbed by bright colours and loud noises. Sounds like him
I don't even know if I believe the autism claim. I don't think he's ever been formally diagnosed. I think he is self-diagnosed with "Asperger's syndrome," which is no longer a diagnosis.
The stupid thing is that they guy has enough money to fix those without being unsafe.
The back up beeping is too annoying? Give a nerd a pile of money to swap it out for some Selena Gomez
The beeping is required to be annoying. It's supposed to alert everyone in the area that the forklift is being driven backwards. Changing it to Selena Gomez would fade into background noise.
If you're constantly driving your forklift backwards, you have either the wrong forklift or a bad warehouse layout.
Safety regulations are written in blood.
This is why there are no damn handrails on the Death Star.
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It's baffling how one person can oversee so many companies. The U.S. seems lax when it comes to scrutinizing who's fit to lead a company.
It's all the Invisible Hand of the MarketTM. It just so happens that the "hand" part is actually "money" and the "invisible" part is only if you're willfully ignorant.
And Elon has enough hands to fistfuck us all at once...or something. I lost the metaphor.
I mean... Trump was president and he's STILL not in jail.
It is wholly accurate to leave it at, "The US doesn't know how to scrutinize 'leaders'."
Almost makes it seem like maybe a CEO shouldn’t be making 300x more than their employees.
Then they should form a union
When I was looking for my last job I could have almost picked where I wanted to go. Recruiter approached me about a position at SpaceX. Maybe 5 years ago I would have been thrilled to have even interviewed. I privately laughed out loud while saying I'd think it over. This man is like a fucking child that's never been told no.
Why didn’t you want to tell the recruiter exactly how you feel about SpaceX? Maybe recruiters should be made to feel like mentioning SpaceX will harm their own reputation.
Because I don't know who I'm talking to or who they know......if you're my friend, I'd tell you exactly what I thought. If you were my work colleague, I'd just smile and say I needed to think about it. I don't ever let personal/professional boundaries cross. I learned that lesson the hard way.
Elon giving off "J.P." vibes from Grandma's Boy
That's who he reminds me of!! Glad I'm not the only one!
At least jp was a genius that created some good games before burning out.
OSHA says hello
Has Musk ever denied hiding the body of a murdered prostitute in the spacesuit that’s in the car he shot into space?
That seems too stupid to not be made up
Doesn't that describe most of Elon's life these days?
"This can't be true, it's absolutely fucking bonkers! Oh, it's about Daddy E? Yeah, nevermind. Just Elon things."
Even for Elon it sounds more likely that someone made that up
I get the impression that the people who work at these places are Musk stans who wouldn't sue if he dropped a truck on them.
Well they’re still perfectly safe from having a cybertruck dropped on them!
It shatters on impact anyways
Except he’s currently being sued by employees. Just over something else
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This was reported years ago wrt Tesla. Not surprised at all.
From the king of mustard?
I doubt this
This could either be horrible or mean absolutely nothing.
Hypothetically, you don't actually need to wear a hi-vis safety vest if you are in an office. It's only required in high traffic areas and usually with heavy equipment moving. Additionally many machines are painted yellow, or various other colors. This isn't necessarily for safety reasons. For example some machine enclosement doors will be painted yellow or some other color, this has zero effect on the safety of operating the machine. Infact painting is primarily to identify parts or sections of the machine, not safety reasons, that's what enclosures and interlocks are for.
The requests could be illegal, or it could be merely aesthetic.
Considering workplace hazards are a real problem at SpaceX, I don't think it's likely to be merely aesthetic.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/