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> If you're not on the board of directors, the way you register displeasure with your CEO is to leave the company.

Or you write a letter to the board, those responsible for the situation.

Yeah, the idea that employees can't criticize a CEO is patently ridiculous. There are plenty of companies with compelling products and talent, but poor leadership. Those companies would be lucky to have employees willing to speak up.

Maybe interesting: Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic (i.e. continental Europe), I haven't found a single comment on one of the bigger newspaper sites (usually filled by fans) that would defend SpaceX's position in this matter. The reputation is pretty much gone.

Update: In the largest newspaper forum of my country, there are now 2 posts out of 96, agreeing with SpaceX (but more on the basis that the employees' action was ill-advised).

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