She says her employer needed no report - the offensive music played out loud every day
A Tesla worker says her workplace soundtrack was so vulgar it created a sexually hostile environment - and she is suing.
Ivy Gyimah has worked for Tesla in Storey County, Nevada, since around October 2021, and according to her complaint she still does. In a lawsuit filed May 28, 2026 in federal court in Nevada, she alleges that for much of her time there, the workplace was flooded with sexually "foul and abusive" music.
Her complaint makes a single claim: a sexually hostile work environment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that bars workplace discrimination "because of sex."
The twist is the alleged source of the hostility. Not a manager, not a co-worker - a playlist. Gyimah alleges that employees and managers streamed "hiphop" or "rap" music from personal devices through Bluetooth speakers, loudly and routinely. The filing says the lyrics called women "hoes" (slang for "whore"), bitches, and "c__ts," and carried "extraordinarily graphic and sexually foul content." It points to two tracks as examples: "Wack Something" by EBK Young Joc and "She" by Tyler the Creator.
The notice argument is what HR teams should watch. Gyimah alleges Tesla knew about the music on a "daily, or near daily basis" - because the music was the notice. Managers, including "high-level managers," could hear the lyrics or played the songs themselves, according to the filing. The...
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