SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports

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SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports
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The Journal reported executives at SpaceX worried Elon Musk was on drugs after an "unhinged" all-hands meeting in which he slurred and rambled.

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What kind of company has such a bad drug problem that they need to bring in dogs to find it? Absolutely ridiculous.

I'd probably be shooting up junk too if my boss was Elon Musk.

In normal corporate environments I’ve seen people abuse everything from codeine headache tablets to crystal meth.

Not defending Edolf Twitler, I’m just saying it’s not unusual for these environments to be so toxic that people look for ways to manage.

I don't find the drug use abnormal so much as them bringing in drug sniffing dogs to catch it rather than dealing with it on an individual basis.

Probably less for actually finding drugs than for checking a tickbox on an insurance form for "taking measures to combat drugs" or something. It's probably just Ricky from HR's dobie-doodle mix.

I don't think it's that they had such a rampant drug use problem. I think it's just that they wanted to appease Uncle Sam so they could keep sucking on that taxpayer teat. Uncle Sam's a bit of a stickler about such things, especially when it comes to people who build rocket ships.