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> "If HR does nothing in this case, I will consider leaving this company for real for the first time in five years," she wrote in a threaded tweet. Maybe I'm m
by gspetr 9y ago
> "If HR does nothing in this case, I will consider leaving this company for real for the first time in five years," she wrote in a threaded tweet.
Maybe I'm missing something but since when did HR become the Thought Police? Do people actually believe that if you intimidate someone into silence they will stop having these thoughts? Last I checked the psychological research in this area suggested that people rebelled against it and doubled down, even if in private.
And the threat itself - suppose she does leave the company and then what?
A person that's ready to throw both a tantrum on social media and your company's reputation under the bus the moment she hears a colleague voice an unpopular opinion does not sound like a smash hit with hiring managers, more like a risk and a liability.
- throwaway123441 9y agoWelcome to Silicon Valley, where if you don't believe without evidence all the same things the others do, then you should be fired. Republican? Fire them. Point out that turns out there are more men in tech than women, maybe for innate reasons? Burn them! This is mainstream Silicon Valley opinion, and there will have to be lost discrimination law suits before it realizes just how discriminating and fascist this behavior is.
- cannonedhamster 9y agoSince forever? The job of HR is the protect the company. If a single employee is causing a problem that impacts work through the majority of the company they will find a way to remove the problem. There's a reason politics is generally discouraged at work. We're generally all guilty of it, but it leads to problems in unit cohesion. The military tends to handle this well with the whole "you'll think what the branch wants you to think" mentality because you literally cannot have infighting on the line. It also tends to make you a lot more tolerant of people when you're depending on them to watch your back.
- laughinghan 9y agoI'm not sure why you're interpreting that tweet as a threat to try to force HR to intimidate someone into stop having thoughts. Maybe she's saying she doesn't want to work somewhere her teammates think she's biologically inferior, but she's hoping that HR will ensure that person doesn't stay on the team?