Ashley M. Gjøvik
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A true-crime-podcast of a Twitter account dedicated to my whistleblower legal battle with my ex-employer, Apple Computer (lawyer but nothing is legal advice)
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🧵In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my home. Later I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off EPA, who raided them in 2023. EPA just sent me the report 💀⬇️
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US EPA Enforcement & Compliance conducted 3 onsite inspections of Apple's fab facility in 8/2023 + 1/2024. US EPA noted at least *19* potential violations of the RCRA hazardous waste statute.
I just posted US EPA's report for public access. Dropbox link:
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TLDR; EPA discovered that Apple was:
- illegally treating hazardous waste
- illegally transporting hazardous waste
- illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows)
- leaving stockpiles of chemicals unattended on weekends
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I told US EPA I didn't want my whistleblowing about the fab to be anonymous, and instead, that if EPA shows up onsite to inspect the plant, when they do, please have the EPA cops tell Apple: "Ashley says hi." 💀
It looks like EPA did what I asked. 🔥
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BlueSky Terms of Service gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content (posts, name, likeness, pics)
BlueSky can delete your account for any reason, but may refuse to delete it if you ask
You can't screenshot BlueSky
All disputes = individual arbitration
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Apple can keep flailing around, but we're in federal court now & they will be forced to face the music. I'm also waiting to hear from US Dept of Labor Judge if I can add RCRA, Clean Air Act, & TSCA retaliation claims. Finally, its also possible DOJ could pursue criminal charges.
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The inspection was supposed to be unannounced so EPA surprises the inspected party who has no chance to cover up issues before EPA gets inside. However city HazMat tipped off Apple & EPA was greeted by Apple's EH&S team. Note: what EPA found was AFTER Apple had time to clean up.
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After discovering what Apple did, I then spent three months requesting records & digging through regulatory filings to learn more - which led me to file a complaint to US EPA in June 2023. I met with their investigators & sent them everything I discovered.
Here's Apple's SB01 occupancy plan. It includes labs for:
- Bake out 'wet'
- Corrosive gas bunker
- 'Acid wet'
- etc
You enter offices from the north. To enter the silicon fab clean rooms, you walk through a 'gown' area where they assumably put on bunny suits
Sounds residential
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Illegal treatment: Apple set up a 1700 gallon aboveground chemical storage tank to treat their ignitable solvent waste. The chemicals are clearly haz waste. The tank was even marked haz waste. But Apple had no permits for it because they unilaterally declared it wasn't haz waste.
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We're not done, you guys. There's more! However, if you feel like you just got a strong whiff of Apple's poison gas & you need a moment to catch your breath; I'll just leave this right here as a reminder of how important it is that we protect each other.
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But Apple's potential felonies did not stop there! Apple also decided to transport the illegally treated haz waste (which Apple claimed was never haz waste) to a disposal facility still claiming it wasn't haz waste (even though it was). In 2021 the same waste stream included NMP.
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My civil lawsuit against Apple includes 2 toxic tort claims for what they are doing at this factory. I alleged Nuisance + Ultrahazardous Activities. The US Judge is letting me proceed with both claims. Our first case management conference is next week.
Today the Judge ok'd the following claims to go forward: Nuisance, Ultrahazardous activities, Breach of Good Faith & Fair Dealing, Tamney, §§ 98.6, 6310, 17200, IIED
He also granted me leave to amend: RICO, Bane, Ralph, NIED, § 1102.5, &breach of contract
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Because Apple wasn't monitoring its solvent emissions, & had no permit, its unclear just how much toxic waste Apple dumped into our bedrooms. Also, it gets worse. Between 2020-23, Apple did monitor the air for vapors with an ad hoc, handheld, calibrated gas detector...ONE TIME.
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This same solvent waste storage tank full of env crimes also featured illegal emissions too! The solvent VOC air emissions from the tank & all of the facility's solvent exhaust was collected in a mainline & dumped into the air on the roof, without a permit, & probably unabated.
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We previously discussed how Apple didn't change its carbon filters for ~5yrs per their manifests; so they were prob useless. EPA also noticed that when Apple started changing filters in 12/2020, Apple claimed solvent drenched charcoal wasn't haz waste, & illegally disposed of it.
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Apple's lawyers & I are supposed to have our 26f meet/confer by Tues in preparation for our first case mgmt conference mid-July. Apple's lawyers don't want to talk to me now; & their primary defense continues to be highly inflammatory personal attacks.
Apple just said they don't want to meet/confer with me about the civil case. I think they're afraid of me. 💀
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Next, EPA discovered that Apple had many smaller nonpermitted tanks of haz waste scattered around the plant; including "highly flammable" & corrosive chemicals. Apple unilaterally declared it wasn't hazardous waste because Apple 1) never analyzed it & 2) did pour water into it.
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The US EPA inspector noticed Apple had a 55-gallon container of corrosive liquid chemicals sitting in Apple's "Chemical Bunker," & the container's cap was removed
EPA said: hey Apple, why is that container open?
Apple responded: its open so the vapors vent & it doesn't explode
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Sooo,
#Apple
has pics of my boobs. During a discovery thing 3yr ago, legal forced me to hand-over all my texts. They refused to let me delete anything, even "fully personal," even when I said "by fully personal I mean nudes." They said they're in their "permanent evidence locker"
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The US EPA inspector also came across a pile of random containers of hazardous waste, apparently thrown in the corner of the Bunker. Three container's contents were unknown. All 10 were not dated & had not been analyzed. Apple claimed they had just left them there that morning.
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Speaking of Apple's Chemical Bunker...when US EPA started looking around, it saw 30 containers of corrosive liquid, & 12 containers of flammable liquids, all "stacked against the wall." The labels were not visible so EPA had to dig through the jugs to figure out what was there.
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If you're thinking, ok that sounds dangerous, but I'm sure Apple was keeping an eye on things...The facility operated 24/7 but only M-F. On the weekends it was unattended & they didn't monitor their waste. They also stopped weekly inspections after I learned what they were doing.
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Finally lets talk about Apple's factory exhaust. Much of Apple's solvent exhaust vented out "as is" from the main system. The illegal solvent treatment tank exhaust went through untested carbon boxes, but then out a tiny vent pointed *down* at the building. There were no permits.
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BlueSky's Privacy Policy says they'll stalk everything you do on the site, but also what you were doing before you got there & what you do after
They'll use cookies, pixel tags, & web beacons on app, web, & emails to stalk you all over the web
They'll use info for targeted ads
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BlueSky's Privacy Policy says that there's no such thing as good InfoSec & if anything happens to your data because they don't care, it's 100% not their fault
They 'may' 'attempt' to notify you of a breach
Reminder: if you want to argue this, its individual private arbitration.
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@notseelen
It's kept me awake at night for four years now.
That, and the fact that this most often happens in areas where people have the least amount of resources and influence to be able to fight back even if they wanted to.
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My
#Apple
team in SW Eng not only documented their goal of making my "life a living hell" in our dev work tracking system, they also kept whiteboards for tally marks when they "scored points" for "making me want to quit my job."
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@TherealkingBigB
Thank you!!! I have donation options here:
It includes an Amazon wish list of legal resources & office supplies.
I'm also still $50 away on the printer fundraising:
You guys know when I actually breakdown & ask for help its usually over something very boring, so here we are again. My printer's a situation & ready to retire (currently held together with duct tape) & I need a replacement but am broke. Looking for laser, high-res, duplex, color
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@andrew_mohrman
You would be less amazed if you knew how many pestering emails / phone calls were involved
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I asked them over & over to let me delete those texts / pics
I told them having to share them w/ my employer was a horrific violation of my privacy
They told me that my employment contract requires I participate fully in any investigations
Send nudes or get fired?
#Apple
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I questioned this aggressively. Apple R&D pressures us to have one iPhone for work & personal (so we can "live on" / dogfood). I said, if there's texts that aren't with employees and have nothing to do with work, I should be able to delete them or at least attachments. "Nope."
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🧵 I’m sorry to do this but there’s a Part 2. I waited to share this part because I worried most of you'd not be able to handle all of this at once. But you’ve had a week to recover, so let’s dive into how Apple execs are giving themselves bonuses as a reward for illegal dumping!
🧵In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my home. Later I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off EPA, who raided them in 2023. EPA just sent me the report 💀⬇️
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@video_gamer_guy
It's definitely not
Spend like five minutes putting in the effort to pull up the ToS for a few of the platforms & compare the sections
This is much worse than usual
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So, following raising concerns to
#Apple
about
#sexism
,
#hostileworkenvironment
, &
#unsafeworkconditions
, I'm now on indefinite paid administrative leave per
#Apple
employee relations, while they investigate my concerns. This seems to include me not using Apple's internal Slack.
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@jnsq
Hey Jack, if you're reading this - I'm looking for work - and you *clearly* need legal & policy advisors. Hit me up.
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Remember how Apple wanted to buy Corellium, and even offered $23M, but Corellium tried to negotiate more, so instead Apple just sued Corellium and tried to destroy the company?
But Corellium was like f that & fought back...
Apple officially lost their retaliatory lawsuit today.
Apple failed to convince a US appeals court that security startup Corellium infringed its copyrights by simulating its iOS operating system to help researchers find security flaws in Apple devices
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@iammabelle
As far as I can tell, they were allowed only because they went out of their way to prevent anyone (including gov) from knowing they were doing fab for at least the first two years
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Today’s
#Apple
employee relations said it’s “fine”: male director colleague asks me out for drinks. I try to make it a group thing; nope. He shows up like it’s a date, but I brought a friend. He acts sad. Still proceeds to talk about cheating on his wife & mistresses entire time.
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Also, I was in a room of attorneys and I said, ok what if I show you those pics / texts and you confirm it’s just personal stuff & then you watch me delete only what you approved? (I offered to let them see my nudes in order to not copy them). Nope! Send your nudes!
#Apple
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Despite me telling my
#Apple
team I have PTSD & pleading they stop attacking me & stop displaying guns/ammo around the office, they never stopped. In fact, at one pt they all surprise attacked me to record my bloody screams, then turned them into a remix, & shared it w/ the org.
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@sirnobelqueef
I am my lawyer and I'm all over EPA. I will say, despite some very unfortunate experiences with their CERCLA groups, that this RCRA group seems extremely legit and has continued to impress me. It was really difficult to get through the EPA fortress walls to get to them though.
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#Apple
makes great products, & some workers have a great experience, but some don't. Everyone who knows me at work knows I've dealt with more abuse than anyone should have. (See: "Make Ashley's Life a Living Hell"... & they really did). No one seems surprised I finally broke.
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@colmant_
it says "you may request deletion of your account, which we will consider on a case by case basis"
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"Gjovik said she thinks she was fired in retaliation after reporting to the EPA that her office was built on the triple site of toxic waste in Silicon Valley, where cracks in the floor exposed employees to carcinogenic fumes."
My life is super normal.
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@MorePerfectUS
A $322,400 fine against a corporation earning $8B/year will surely force that corporation to change their ways.
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"When I began raising wrkplace safety concerns in March & immediately faced retaliation & intimidation, I started preparing myself for something exactly like this to happen. I’m disappointed that a company I've loved since I was a little girl would treat their employees this way”
Apple fires senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking information
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For anyone trying to catch-up on my
#Apple
saga, I gathered the major Tweets & articles so far here:
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@workflowsauce
There was a ton of it in the US in the 1970s-1980s, but then communities realized it poisoned their water and soil, and workers were severely injured, and then Silicon Valley started unionizing over it - so the tech companies shipped it all overseas.
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@CWAUnion
News circa November 1984
Clean but Deadly
"The high tech industry is not unlike others, only in the case of high tech, the smokestacks are underground
Few are aware that hundreds of highly toxic chemicals & gases are used at every phase of the production process"
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I didn't get much sleep last night. I was too excited watching thousands of people around the world scream at Apple about Apple's environmental & safety failures. I've been working towards this for a long time, y'all. Thrilled to see it. 💙🤘
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@Joshreeter
Tim Cook & the
#Apple
Board of Directors.
Arthur D. Levinson, James A. Bell,
@tim_cook
,
@algore
,
@AndreaJung__
,
@MonicaCLozano
, Ronald D. Sugar, & Susan Wagner. ()
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@FrancesHaugen
Can you please share more about your husband running troll accounts to harass government officials as a hobby
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Wanted to share:
#Apple
employee relations confirmed this
#tonepolicing
is totally ok feedback for me to get from my
#bigtech
#male
leaders & not
#sexist
.
As this investigation rolls on, I've decided to start Tweeting the stuff they say is "ok." I mean, they did say it was ok?
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#Apple
employee relation's 1st
#sexism
investigation only arose while I was complaining about unsafe work conditions and related
#intimidation
. They tried to quickly brush me off & prevented me from raising more concerns. This time, I gave them 558 pieces of evidence to review.
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Dropped off my
#Apple
devices & badge at FedEx this evening. Threw away the t-shirts & other symbols that lost their meaning. I just see propaganda now.
Saged the shit out of my apartment & everything & myself. For the first time in a long time, finally feeling some stillness. 💙
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This happened to me at
#Apple
too: they offered EAP and suggested medical leave after I spoke up about
#sexism
,
#discrimination
, and a hostile work environment. They also suggested requesting
#ADA
#disability
accommodations after I raised concerns about unsafe
#workconditions
.
In interviews with The New York Times, six former and current Google employees said that when they spoke up against workplace misconduct, the company offered them free short-term counseling or medical leave, instead of addressing the broader issues.
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Bonus post: I told
#Apple
employee relations to not investigate it if it meant having to tell him I was the one who reported it. I still have to work with him. They told me it wasn’t my choice & they were going to tell him it was me complaining & they did tell him that. All “ok.”
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I'd like to put the "I'm doing this for $ / my career" gimmick to bed. I made $386k at
#Apple
last year with salary/stock/bonus (pay transparency!). There is no $ incentive for me to speak out. Also, discrimination is everywhere and wherever I work after this, this will follow me
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If anyone is curious exactly how things went down yesterday... I'm posting my only direct interactions with
#Apple
on Sept 9, 2021, without comment. What do you think?
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I assume
#Apple
hoped I'd just quit the company by now. Nope. As I told Apple employee relations last month, I'm not quitting.
They need to deal with the concerns I raised, & even more: stop intimidating, retaliating, & bullying me for even raising them. I'm here until they do.
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Y'all, I'm a senior engineering program manager with decades of professional experience & it was even in my mid-year review one year...
Someone needs to give me a Purple Heart.
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Here's Apple's SB01 occupancy plan. It includes labs for:
- Bake out 'wet'
- Corrosive gas bunker
- 'Acid wet'
- etc
You enter offices from the north. To enter the silicon fab clean rooms, you walk through a 'gown' area where they assumably put on bunny suits
Sounds residential
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May 1st is May Day
This International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago, Illinois USA
Now, while the day is officially recognized in much of the world, it's not in the US
The US calls it Loyalty Day
Learn more:
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Thinking abt what a clever friend noted:
#Apple
was gonna find a way to fire me ASAP no matter what.
Next week was my annual review & bonus, then RSU vesting in Oct.
Apple's legal strategy is to exhaust energy & pocketbooks.
They were never gonna fund my lawsuit against them.
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I'm still trying to process how my entire life exploded after my original ask to
#Apple
was to stop (probably) poisoning me; for employee relations to make a few men be slightly less awful to me; & to at least pretend to earnestly investigate my concerns. But somehow here we are.
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@fuckyouiquit
Tim Apple is taking a 50% pay cut, following a 𝟓𝟎𝟎% pay 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞
Lots of recent headlines about Tim Cook taking a "50% pay cut"
Now I also see praise of Tim Apple for maybe taking the cut to prevent layoffs
Apparently I'm the only person that ever fact checks Apple...
Cook's taking a 50% pay cut, following a 𝟓𝟎𝟎% pay 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞
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@Frankva96164599
My officemate told me it was because I was joyful. He said he wanted to make me miserable instead. He did.
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@Eve6
Officials warned burning the vinyl chloride "would send phosgene, hydrogen chloride, & dioxin into the air
Phosgene is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a strong odor that can cause vomiting & breathing trouble...
& was used as a weapon in World War I."
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A 327 sqft 'corrosive gas bunker' and 351 sqft 'acid wet' lab sound exactly like something you want to have a stone's throw from thousands of homes.
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@lorigilbertlac
It was a bird or something, it clears up if you move around.
The air permitting issues are mentioned in the report!
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