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To cut to the chase, I do think there’s a certain amount of dishonesty in the typical Silicon Valley corporate culture. But to my mind it is far more reasonable
by bradleyjg 7y ago
To cut to the chase, I do think there’s a certain amount of dishonesty in the typical Silicon Valley corporate culture. But to my mind it is far more reasonable to ask that companies not engage in this dishonesty rather than asking that they live up to it. Bring your whole self to work is ridiculous and unworkable. No one can run a successful business if their employees are spending all day debating philosophy on internal message boards.
- AzzieElbab 7y agoHow would a geek with 0 real life experience outside Google know that? It is not what they told him about "internal discussions".
- CydeWeys 7y agoBumbling geeks with zero real life experience can be a huge liability to large corporations generally, and often don't make for good employees solely for that reason. He's an adult. He bears responsibility for his actions. Ignorance is not enough of an excuse to save him. But even that's not valid here because he repeatedly defended the same views in the media long after someone who was merely bumbling would have realized the error of their ways. He doubled down on it. What started out as bumbling, didn't end that way.
- bradleyjg 7y agoThe people that want everything made explicit and all lies banished from human relations lost, have always lost, and will always lose. I recognize that for some this imposes significant hardship but changing everyone else’s human nature is not a reasonable accommodation. The kindest thing those of us that know young people of this type can do is pull them aside and explain how the world works. It is unkind to feed their delusions by vigorously agreeing with them online and then turning around and continuing to act pragmatically in our own lives.
- cousin_it 7y agoStrongly disagree. I think it would be both feasible and good to change culture to be more tolerant of "tone-deaf" speech.
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- AzzieElbab 7y agoWhat happens if he wins the case? We do a 180? What happens when people with Asperger's start suing? They really need to learn how to keep things simple in modern hr. Here are the rules and that's it.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoBut that's beyond moving the goalposts now, just inventing arbitrary reasons to justify an already set view. That shouldn't be accepted either, otherwise it's just a "get out of jail free" card for bad actors - "I sacked you because you did something I didn't like. Wait, you did what I asked you to? But you should've known that in this case when I say to do something, I mean the opposite! In this case, and any other case I find convenient after the fact."