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Company is a bit tone def when it was pointed out they have a all male team https://twitter.com/LBRYio/status/843865332771164160 https://twitter.com/LBRYio/stat
by wsgrah 10y ago
Company is a bit tone def when it was pointed out they have a all male team https://twitter.com/LBRYio/status/843865332771164160 https://twitter.com/LBRYio/status/843865332771164160
- chungy 10y agoA team consisting of four people. Is this really a problem? It's probably just a bunch of friends that decided to try an idea. Seriously, what are they supposed to do to resolve it? Fire two partners and hire two women just to make an equality quota? Hire four new women just on the merit of being women?
- Ianvdl 10y agoIt's a vapid complaint used by people who want to feel superior without actually contributing anything to the project.
- stonesixone 10y ago> A team consisting of four people. I count thirteen: https://lbry.io/team https://lbry.io/team
- chungy 10y agoThanks. Apologies for not looking at it into detail. The Twitter link only showed the first four.
- legostormtroopr 10y agoWhy is it even worth pointing out there team has no women? The original "call out" tweet was very snarky. There are 9 staff, not including a few advisors. So its probably the case that they all knew each other before the comapny existed. If there were no women in their lab, theres not much they can do about that. What would the correct response be? "Sorry we didn't know any women when we started, we shouldnt have done anything until the right quota of women showed up." Should they fire and replace 4 staff with women or just hire 9 women even though they might not have enough revenue to do so?
- michaelmior 10y agoRegardless of what you think of the original tweet, the response is ridiculous.
- StavrosK 10y agoI agree with your general sentiment, but their response does sound a bit weird. It would have been fine with me if they had said "oh it's just by chance, plus most of us knew eachother from before we started". Saying "we have no female roles" and "oh we get paid less so we're all women" (wtf?) isn't handling the situation well.
- kauffj 10y agoIt was a crass and tone-deaf attempt on our part to signal awareness. Lesson learned. Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.
- haldean 10y agoYour attempt to respond sincerely was to say you don't have any women on staff because you don't have any executive assistants or office managers, which even a generous reader would call a sexist reason: https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688 https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688
- beaugunderson 10y agoyeah... clearly they haven't learned :/
- StavrosK 10y agoTo be fair, I think that was even before my reply.
- cdubzzz 10y ago
- Fifer82 10y agoThey have almost no staff, what is more, even if they have 10000 male staff only, that is up to them. If you don't like it, start your own company and concentrate on your own business filling your own sense of political correctness.
- chayesfss 10y agoHow does someone create an account a few years ago and this is their first comment?
- striking 10y agoSome people are just really good at lurking. Although this is actually this account's second comment.
- wickedlogic 10y agoI was imagining someone selling off-the-shelf users with established history, like pre-shelved c-corps that you can buy.... "in business since 1955".
- kefka 10y agoAnd the converse is... "Im sorry. We cannot hire yo for employment at this time because you are male." Yeah... That would be a lawyers fieldday.