Only one day after Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was named TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year, his famous auto manufacturer Tesla was exposed to a major scandal: multiple current and former employees on the 14th of this month At the same time, a lawsuit was initiated, accusing the Tesla factory of condoning workplace perverts to sexually harass female employees, and the company’s drug culture has spread.
More media said that as the head of Tesla, many of Musk’s words and deeds are quite frivolous, and the poor corporate culture under his name is caused by the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked.
The Vulgar and Backward Brotherhood Organization
According to the Washington Post report on the 15th, 6 female victims filed a lawsuit against Tesla in a California District Court on the 14th. Five of the six plaintiffs worked for (or had worked at) Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, and another one worked for Tesla’s call center in California.
These victims have all experienced sexual harassment from male colleagues and bosses during their employment. Some complaints to the top were not only inconclusive but also received various forms of retaliation. Some plaintiffs said in the litigation materials: Compared with the high-precision corporate image of Tesla headquarters, its factory is more like a kind of vulgar and backward fraternity organization.
The Fremont plant is currently Tesla’s only car assembly plant in the United States. According to Tesla’s official website, there are more than 10,000 employees working there. According to the victim, Jessica Brooks, she was harassed on the first day of employment.
On the same day, she heard the supervisor say to a male subordinate: I will meet the new girl. When she goes to work, she always has male colleagues blowing hooligans at her. Due to the unbearable frequent harassment in her daily work, she brought in a lot of cardboard boxes and surrounded her workstation to form a physical barrier. Only in this way could she work with peace of mind. She said that she had reported such problems to Tesla’s human resources department, but the company did not solve the problem.
Another victim, Alyssa Brickman, said that her superiors had to manipulate her hands and feet on her almost every day. In addition to stroking her down-back position, she always leaned in her ear and said Some sorrowful talk. Not only did she feel extreme discomfort during work, but she could not even guarantee her personal safety. Because she didn’t let the supervisor take advantage, she was threatened by her superiors to be transferred to the “worst department in Tesla” to go to work.
The victim, Michara Coron, was only 18 years old when he took office at Tesla’s Fremont factory. Even for such a young girl, the male colleague in the factory “will not let it go”, often making all kinds of explicit sexual allusions to Coron. For example, her superiors openly asked her to shaking hips and said that she should go striptease. A male colleague begged her when he went to work and said that men and women in this factory often do indescribable things in the parking lot. In the end, Colum couldn’t do it anymore after only two months of work.
Alize Brown was 21 years old when she joined the company and had just given birth to a child. During the night shift, her male colleagues repeatedly made vulgar jokes about her breastfeeding breasts, saying that the cow is milking again today and mocking her for having a giant butt.
Despite the harsh working environment, it was difficult to find a job during the new crown epidemic. Brown worked hard to raise his children. In order to avoid being harassed, she deliberately wears very loose clothes to go to work. She once reported the issue of sexual harassment to her superiors, but not only did the superiors not take it seriously, they fired her a few months later.
A male colleague follows the trend and talks about meaty jokes
Medros, who works at the Tesla Customer Service Center in Los Angeles, said that the atmosphere of the customer service department is not much better than that of the factory. Male colleagues often ridicule her like beautiful girls shouldn’t work here, go to flirt with big clients, and try to catch a beetle-in-law. In her opinion, one of the main reasons Tesla’s corporate culture is so unbearable is that Elon Musk, the company’s head, is very indecent on gender issues and often makes botched jokes on Twitter. Send something that contains insignificant hints. Medros said: Whenever Mr. Musk tweeted, these male colleagues in the unit rushed to read it, and then talked about bad things like following the trend.
The British Financial Times said on the 15th that Musk was trying his best to run some kind of bad boy persona on Twitter. At the end of October this year, Musk said that he was considering starting a university with the name Texas Institute of Technology.
He said that the English acronym for this name is TITS, which means “woman’s breast. Musk also called several of Tesla’s main products-namely the S, 3, X and Y series S3XY, indicating that this is similar to the English word sexy. Musk’s poorly tasteful sense of humor is despised by public opinion. Some media said that the corporate culture of the men’s club of companies under Musk’s name is a common problem in many American high-tech companies.
SpaceX also reported scandals
At the same time that six women sued Tesla, Musk’s space exploration technology company SpaceX also reported a scandal: Several women who had worked at SpaceX reported that they had encountered sexual harassment by male colleagues. Ashley Kosak, a former engineer of SpaceX, alleged that in 2017, she was sexually harassed by a male intern in the intern dormitory. In 2018, she was “handled down” by a male employee at a company event. On both occasions, she reported the situation to the manager and the human resources department but never responded.
A female victim of a similar experience said that because it was difficult to find a place to live near the launch site, she could only live in a dormitory provided by SpaceX and had experienced sexual harassment like Kosak. These dormitories are usually mixed men and women, and sometimes need to share toilets.
Agence France-Presse said that Tesla’s Fremont factory has been turbulent in recent days: In October this year, the factory was involved in a racial discrimination lawsuit. A murder occurred in the factory this Monday and an employee was shot and killed by a colleague.
In addition, the safety of Tesla vehicles has recently attracted attention. Reuters said on the 15th that after a fatal accident involving a Tesla Model 3 car, European taxi platform G7 announced that it had suspended the use of this model in its fleet. The Tesla car involved lost control while driving, hitting pedestrians, bicycles, and trucks, killing one person and injuring about 20 others.