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Blue Origin - which offers spaceflights for professionals including NASA and tourists, hasn’t

had a good run recently. NASA decided that their space lander contract which is worth 2
billion dollars goes to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Jeff Bezos’s firm had written an appeal but in
August it was cancelled. Now, Blue Origin got another blow, this time from the inside. 21 ex
and actual workers published a letter, whose co-author was Alexandra Abrams - ex head of
interior communication. In this note which was published on Lioness they’re proving that the
firm overlooks sexism, doesn’t care enough about safety and quiet unruly people. They
recalled many examples of sexims and disregarding workers by some managers. In the
letter which is quoted by the Verge, workers accused general principal - Bob Smith of
discouraging his employers from asking hard questions during the interior meetings and
asking a friend to monitor “troublemakers and agitators”. Probably he forced his workers to
talk about safety of the Blue Origin capsule and New Shepard spaceship. Workers wrote that
decisions are made by a group of trusted people and often without engineers and other
experts.

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