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What I found really baffling is that he apparently said all of these things to an audience of college students at his alma mater. How could anybody make it to a
by ufmace 11y ago
What I found really baffling is that he apparently said all of these things to an audience of college students at his alma mater. How could anybody make it to a high-level position and be so clueless about what you can say to what audience? This isn't like somebody snuck a recorded into a secret meeting, this is a perfectly predictable consequence of discussing confidential business details with random college students.
Especially when you're a C-level executive of a major corporation, there are certain things you just don't ever discuss frankly other than behind closed doors with a very select audience. Even if this hadn't been recorded, it would have been felony stupid to say those things to that audience. The consequences are entirely predictable and well-deserved.
- AndyNemmity 11y ago"Especially when you're a C-level executive of a major corporation, there are certain things you just don't ever discuss frankly other than behind closed doors with a very select audience." I agree with everything except this statement. It's discussed without closed doors, and without a select audience all the time. It's actually quite wide and open for this kind of thing, which is likely how he made the error. He's so used to communicating in this way, he didn't realize that he needed to dramatically change his content for this particular audience.
- ufmace 11y agoEh? Who do you think he is discussing the confidential details of a sensitive negotiation between competing providers of rocket engines with? Considering that it's an extremely vertical market, and one impolite comment at the wrong time could get them shut out of all of the suppliers in the industry.
- roymurdock 11y agoI find it funny that he was basically bragging/venting about a lot of quasi-illegal things in order to seem cool in front of some college kids. This kind of stuff happens all the time between friends, but come on man, you don't need them to validate whatever insecurities you have about not having a cool/exciting job or whatever. You build rockets!
- ufmace 11y agoThe more I think about it, the more likely this explanation seems. Guy definitely doesn't belong in an executive role if his desire to look cool in front of a bunch of college kids trumps common sense about business confidentiality.