Current and former Blue Origin employees say workplace culture and safety practices lacking 

6:06 "You cannot create a culture of safety and a culture of fear at the same time. They are incompatible." That's something you don't hear much on mainstream media very often anymore.

So he's running his space company like an Amazon packing plant? I expected as much

SpaceX is so far ahead of Blue Origin that it isn't really a contest at this point. SpaceX reached orbit over a decade ago. Blue has yet to even reach orbit.

King really trying hard to show her loyalty to Jeff

Why are people shocked over safety concerns. NASA did the same thing during the space race. Of course what she saying is true. The question should be what will they do to change it?

Branson is really no competition, and unless BO starts actually launching real rockets, they're not competition for SpaceX, either. Most of the payload mass to orbit is launched by SpaceX at this point.

This needs to be taken into account with the Law suits Bezos keeps filling

Well thats a shocker cause Amazon work environment i heard was so dandy🙄

One could argue that BO has not really innovated in several years. The current rocket is really old tech they developed years ago and have been tweaking. But where, oh where is New Glenn? Where are new engines that ULA is not-so-patiently waiting for? Sadly, Bezos, a non-engineer, is running BO like Amazon. Fear and loathing might work in retail, but not for building safe rockets. Bezos needs to study air travel, and note that the success of the industry is based of OPEN COMMUNICATION. No punishment for honest mistakes, and learning from problems. BO has adopted a competitive culture of managers competing for enhanced roles and prestige. Quality will and has suffered. Very sad, really. There is an irony here. NASA first feared working with SpaceX because of the risk that Musk was not really serious, this was a game for him, a rich man’s plaything. Now we see he is the real deal. But what of BO? I fear it really IS a mere ego extension of him, and they really, really are not serious. At least not like SpaceX. That may be the reason they lost their contracts.

Same story at my job. If something doesn't work and you go to your managers and tell them about it, it doesn't benefit you at all. The opposite is true. So when a tool you have no power over or a concept made by someone else doesn't work, you don't tell your superiors about it but every college knows what's going on. In the long term this will lead to a big problem for the company. But when they wake up it will be to late. the competition doesn't sleep.

The more they rush things the less safe each flight will be. Ofcourse Besso knows that but he made sure the risk were extremely low in his flight but in the future when thr safety standard gradually move down he won't care cause he won't be on those flights. These things safety concerns are just waiting to happen and eventually they will have a lawsuit on their hands

"... That I wish he (Jeff B) was the person we thought he was...." Really? Your talking about a guy known to give employees so little time that their forced to pee in bottles.

Blue Origin at this point is a very expensive amusement park ride.

Shocking!! I thought Besos would force them to pee in bottle like Amazon workers.

Culture matters. I have been in a startup with a fast moving culture which became a Fortune 500 company and an established Fortune 500 company with an older culture, which did not really know what fast was. Fast is not the be all and end all but it was what we wanted. If you want innovation, competence, and safety that must be in the culture and obviously it isn't in Blue Origin. You can't do it by decree.

Blue Origin, from a branding POV, is not elegant and sexy as SpaceX. Also, apart from these allegations of toxic workplace culture and OSHA issues, BO never made the effort to engage with the general public and media until the day of the launch which was sort of anticlimactic. It was like opening a can of flat soda.

With the door on their capsule opening inward, it's just a matter of time that something similar to what happened to Apollo-1 happens. Those astronauts died because the capsule's door open inward and they couldn't get it opened due to the pressure.

I can’t see how what Blue Origin does is any where near Space X. It would always BO 20 years to catch up.

So glad CBS gave this woman a platform to speak her truth! I believe her.

Why I am not suprise!

She is brave

What Blue Origin is doing, what SpaceX is doing, what Virgin Galactic is doing IS inherently risky. Anyhow Jeff needs to fire Blue Origin's CEO ASAP and hire a leader.

Bezos will be first human to sue others in space.

Suborbital is like dipping a toe in the ocean and claiming to be a deep sea diver.

LOL she used a “burner laptop so she couldn’t be tracked”??? What does that even mean

The woman caster at the end keeps saying that BO has had 17 consecutive successful flights to space that were safe is wrong and what most don't understand is the difference between low earth orbit in which is all BO and Virgin have achieved and space orbit in which Space-X, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada, Boing are the only one's that have achieved this and Space-X is the only one sending people to space orbit and or the space station. The difference between low earth orbit and space orbit is comparable to a glider flying and not needing oxygen and a jet flying at 60,000 feet and needing a pressurized cabin with oxygen, there is a big technological difference between the two to be able to fly at that altitude and the same is with low earth orbit and space orbit, between the engine designs to cabin designs to withstand the higher pressures to technology needed for the shielding of the heat upon reentry which BO or Virgin have not designed and or overcome yet if ever.

Dragon capsule is supposed to land in the ground not water, that's why it has another thrusters beside the abort Draco thrusters.. But NASA insisted them to land in water for safety purpose..

We all know Amazon all subsidiaries Tesla etc have aggressively established poor abusive work environments. But not alone as HR professional I’ve seen this in hospitality management companies.

Jeff is messed up

As a Seattlite… are we really surprised?

The Blue Origin engine they're developing for the new Vulcan Atlas Rocket still isn't ready and has been pushed back to 2022. It should've been ready at least last year. Blue Origin has been sending up the New Glenn rocket like a Yo-Yo! Why so much testing? The 1st Stage seems to work well so what is the problem? perhaps this lady is giving the answer?

SpaceX has made Blue Origin irrelevant and obsolete before they had even completed the New Glen.

This is right of the show billions

Blue Origin has not even launched a single orbital rocket after nearly a decade. Put up or shut up Blue Origin.

Blue origin has already lost the space race.

Good for her she left good for you

Why is there a competition? I didn't see Branson competing. I would hope that Branson would run Virgin Galactic with the steady pace and employee and customer first and not be concerned with Musk or Bezos. I love the Virgin Brand and to my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not heard Branson compete in this space race. I think Bezos has a super xxxxxl Ego and is a narcissist

There is more to this story. Dig deep. You will be surprised !

If you ever worked for Amazon, this is not far fetched

Just a taste of the normal amazon culture, it will get way worse.

Let’s see how it all turns out in the next few years compared to SpaceX. We already know BO doesn’t have nothing on SpaceX, but I’m taking in terms of safety and reliability. This is just my opinion, but it won’t end well.

So silly media thinks going up and down for a few minutes means anything but a joy ride.

Nonsense. I am sure she was sleeping during all the safety courses and meetings that the company provides to all workers. Also, I haven’t been in a company that treats everyone with respect and tolerance 👍

New Shepard is the least ambitious of Blue Origin’s projects. The safety culture impacts their more ambitious projects such as the Human Landing System for return to the moon.

Jeff has never been interested in others’ well being. Look at Amazon.

This is great news! Blue origin needs to open up to some risk. As an engineer I know NOTHING is safe, Not your car, not that bridge, not the building you are in and not the phone in your hand. It is so important to fail sometimes so you can succeed in the long run. Fail fast, Fail often.

Not sure what this person expect. You are buildings rockets. They are pretty much bombs. I was a infantryman in the army, a high risk job, that can lead to death. This applies to building rockets, there is a level of risk that is required to push the envelope.

Former employee. Looking for 15 minutes and payout. 17 or so flights with no issues doesn’t seem like it’s coming off its rails

This crew is clueless!

Duh

that explain the unfinished game his company made called "new world" what a scam!

Shes an actress

Now she works in spacex

"It was great that Blue Origin was 'Smooth, and Steady, and Slow...... until". In other words, It was a great place to work when you didn't have to do much, and there was no pressure to perform the job you were hired to do. But, then they wanted us to actually perform the job we were hired for at a pace that I found not as "comfortabl/slow" as before. So I quit, and now want to throw the company "under the bus" because they interfered with my "Smooth, Steady, and Slow" job. Lesson learned here Jeff Bezos. The ULA guys must be in a panic.. BE FOUR

besos is supposedly the worst employer on earth and maybe in space,come on "the leopard dosent change its spots".its a pity.

Good morning every body,how are you,thank to meet and but me say little.

Bezos really loves his new toy.

Guess we’ll find out, if Jeff Bezos kills Captain Kirk.

And the story is brought to you by virgin galactic.

If it's so bad then quit... Oh wait

She’s not gonna let the money she took in exchange for saying nothing silence her any more. What a trooper.

who signed the petition to keep Bezos off earth after he went up in his rocket?

So this lady is saying something that happened three years ago? lol ok

Brave lady and so beautiful+ smart 🤓.

Fighters for money!!!!!lol

This is surprising for a Bezos company. Amazon employees give it such a good reputation. They defecate in bags to send Bezos to space for 5min. That's love.

former employee? what was her position? for all we know she might have been taste testing burgers in the cafeteria

She got fired and replaced by a younger hotter employee that’s what really happened

What the f is she talking about??

She is talking all BS. My husband works for Blue and there is no basis to what she is talking about at all. She is a woman scorned. Women are valued at Blue Origin. She is bringing all these accusations because she didnt do her work properly and got fired

She doesn't like how the sausage is made.

The space race nobody cares about because, in fact, we've been going to space since the sixties. And we even went to the moon.

Elon won the space race by paying his employees, also, if this woman cares about safety she'd care about her own safety by eating less and obtaining a healthy body image.