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WeWork cofounder demanded employees be fired because she disliked their 'energy'
- goobynight 7y agoI've seen cofounders like this. Sometimes they let someone go because they simply don't like that they look old or something. Fwiw, the person I speak of was also looking for a hype-based exit and the mission was to sell, not build, a business. It worked.
- harimau777 7y agoWouldn't that constitute firing someone for religious reasons and therefore be illegal?
- JohnFen 7y agoIANAL, but I don't think so. In the US, you can't discriminate against someone because of their religious beliefs, but I doubt that "having bad energy" counts as "religious belief", even if that "bad energy" thing is itself a religious belief on the part of the employer. If I objected to the color yellow because of a weird religious stance, I think that I could legally fire someone because they drove a yellow car. I couldn't fire them because they didn't share my religious belief, though. But this may be one of those weird edge cases where an argument can be made either way.
- oceliker 7y agoWhen I read the headline, I thought "that's not too bad, she just thinks they are a bad cultural fit with the company". Then I read the article and went "ohh, she means THAT kind of energy".
- forgottenpass 7y agoOpen secret: "culture fit" sounds more serious, that doesn't mean the evaluation criteria used always is.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoIt can easily be a smokescreen for, for example, racism (perhaps unintentionally).
- vivekd 7y agoCertainly, and it puts the company at risk of a discrimination suit along with the associated fallout when you have arbitrary whim based termination practices like this.
- stallmanite 7y agoWow can’t imagine leaving kids aged 2-11 at WeGrow the “entrepreneurial school” she runs. Hate for my kids to be punished or expelled for bad energy. What a wackjob.
- justanothersys 7y agoBut if my kids get free WeGrow branded Yoni eggs then what’s the problem?
- par 7y agoThese two are really coming up as some of the most toxic cofounders I've seen in a while.
- JohnFen 7y agoThey seem to be up there, but I think there are a lot of more toxic ones ahead of them in the line. They may win on the "biggest nutcase" scale, though.
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