Elon Musk told SpaceX workers not to wear safety clothes because he doesn't like bright colors: report

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.

natecox,
@natecox@programming.dev avatar

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.

iAvicenna,

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

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

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.

GreyEyedGhost,

The Aspergers vs ASD statement is as pointless as someone saying they’re manic-depressive instead of bipolar. Sure, that’s a problem if your doctor gets it wrong, but not if someone who has the condition doesn’t bother to keep up.

There are plenty of real issues to criticise Musk for, but that particular item is a non-issue.

PrincessLeiasCat,

In fairness to those with Autism, “self diagnosis” is much more common in that community and accepted because the official test for it can be absurdly long and expensive.

That being said, neither one of those things should be a problem for big brain Elon.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, that is definitely true for many autistic people, but I think in Elon’s case he hides his weird and unacceptable behavior behind a self-diagnosis of autism. He might be autistic, but it’s not the excuse he thinks it is.

PrincessLeiasCat,

Agree 100%.

T00l_shed,

Being autistic doesn’t mean being an ass hole. Maybe musk is ass-tistic.

candybrie,

The key word was pretending.

Zoboomafoo,
@Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world avatar

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

themeatbridge,

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.

Zoboomafoo,
@Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world avatar

You’re right, there’s no sound that exists that Is both alerting and tolerable to Elon Musk

joel_feila,
@joel_feila@lemmy.world avatar

Even the normal beeping is either back ground noise or painfully loud.

Makeitstop,

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.

jasory,

What is a firefighter doing cutting through random cables? It could just as easily be a non-electrical one electrified by broken wiring elsewhere.

FireTower,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Probably trying to get a dying person out of a car wreck.

JJROKCZ,

Probably using the jaws of life on one of Elons deathtraps trying to save the driver of the wrecked car

MotoAsh,

Use your head. Put two and two together. Firefighter, Tesla, high voltage. What do firefighters do to cars? Respond to crashes and cut people out of crashed cars.

If you cannot think of why a firefighter might have to cut through a wire, you might be too stupid for this world.

0x0,

you might be too stupid for this world.

And the toxic shit from Reddit has now leaked to Lemmy

MotoAsh,

If you cannot understand how they are only stupid IF they needed the explanation… you might be too stupid for Lemmy.

0x0,

I think we shouldn’t be inciting people to kill themselves, even when we disagree about things. “Too stupid for this world” is pretty clearly equivalent to “you should kill yourself.” It doesn’t matter if you’ve dressed it up by putting an “if” in front, it’s still toxic behavior.

MotoAsh,

Saying someone is too stupid for this world is wholly and completely different than a KYS message. “Yea, you’re so stupid you’ll probably get hit by a car some day” is wholly different than, “go play in traffic.”

Now please… practice better reading comprehension next time.

0x0,

I guess we just have different standards for treating people with respect.

MotoAsh,

I have a very important tip for you for successfully getting through life: Stop taking offense. The original statement was not nearly as hateful as YOU took it.

Maybe you should figure out why you read it so negatively before you judge me so harshly. Otherwise, you truly are too stupid for Lemmy.

Uglyhead,
@Uglyhead@lemmy.world avatar

Musk: I removed all beeps and horns and warnings from my vehicles and spacecraft because it annoys me.

——

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.

lol3droflxp,
lol3droflxp avatar

The man can’t even deliver cars that he promised for years. Does anyone believe he wil actually go to mars?

Uglyhead,
@Uglyhead@lemmy.world avatar

One of his broodmares has been giving up the goods on the insider info into what his thought processes have been lately— focusing much more energy on— getting off the planet to his own fiefdom on Mars.

She’s pissed, and rightfully so, that he kidnapped their child from her. Another scumbag Phony Stark move to throw on the pile.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Oh he will never go to Mars even if SpaceX gets people to Mars. For all of his lofty claims, there is no way he would give up his Earth luxuries. He wouldn’t even be able to get real-time responses to his “hilarious” tweets.

Plus, he would never put himself at such a personal risk. He’s a coward. Look how he picked a fight with Zuckerberg and then backed out when Zuckerberg called his bluff.

If he was planning to go to Mars, he would have gone up in a SpaceX rocket by now.

lol3droflxp,
lol3droflxp avatar

He himself probably wouldn’t go, I meant it more in a metaphorical sense that he would achieve human presence in mars. But he’s basically a con man so I don’t think he will. And if he sends anyone there it will be a disaster.

ILikeBoobies,

From the king of mustard?

I doubt this

matthewmercury,

This is why there are no damn handrails on the Death Star.

TheLobotomist,

🏅

Ambiorickx,

Has Musk ever denied hiding the body of a murdered prostitute in the spacesuit that’s in the car he shot into space?

Filthmontane,

Then they should form a union

LEDZeppelin,

OSHA says hello

AlphaOmega,

Elon giving off “J.P.” vibes from Grandma’s Boy

TheRealLinga,

That’s who he reminds me of!! Glad I’m not the only one!

ashok36,

At least jp was a genius that created some good games before burning out.

PrincessLeiasCat,

This was reported years ago wrt Tesla. Not surprised at all.

Elliott,

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.

bloup,

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.

Elliott,

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.

captainlezbian,

Osha needs to arrest this man

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sadly, OSHA doesn’t have that power. But he deserves massive fines. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t come out of his pocket.

asexualchangeling,

Sadly “massive fines” for billionaires are nothing

If the punishment for a crime is a fine, it’s only illegal for the poor

Evil_incarnate,

Punishment for a company should include shares issued and handed over to the government.

TallonMetroid,
@TallonMetroid@lemmy.world avatar

You could make them exponential fines. Eventually they’ll shape up, or the fine will grow to be so absurdly large that even the fatcats will be instantly bankrupted.

asexualchangeling,

And how many deaths would it take to reach a fine that the muskrat wouldn’t just wave off? Becouse personally any deaths is to many

TallonMetroid,
@TallonMetroid@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t have to wait for someone to die to issue a fine, y’know. How many forklifts does Tesla operate? How many employees are supposed to be wearing safety vests? And that’s just what we know about so far. I guaran-fucking-tee that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Count each instance as an individual infraction and that’s going to spiral out of control real quick.

jasory,

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.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Considering workplace hazards are a real problem at SpaceX, I don’t think it’s likely to be merely aesthetic.

www.reuters.com/…/spacex-musk-safety/

HowManyNimons,

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.

GombeenSysadmin,

Well they’re still perfectly safe from having a cybertruck dropped on them!

LetterboxPancake,

It shatters on impact anyways

LetterboxPancake,

Crush me harder daddy! ^-^

captainlezbian,

Except he’s currently being sued by employees. Just over something else

ezchili,

That seems too stupid to not be made up

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Doesn’t that describe most of Elon’s life these days?

ezchili,

Even for Elon it sounds more likely that someone made that up

LetterboxPancake,

“This can’t be true, it’s absolutely fucking bonkers! Oh, it’s about Daddy E? Yeah, nevermind. Just Elon things.”

Mateoto,

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.

NounsAndWords,

It’s all the Invisible Hand of the Market^TM^. 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.

joekar1990,

Almost makes it seem like maybe a CEO shouldn’t be making 300x more than their employees.

MotoAsh,

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’.”

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