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This is a dumb email from the CEO because it makes the company look bad to the peers of employees. There are plenty of companies who don’t care about racism, th
by ponker 6y ago
This is a dumb email from the CEO because it makes the company look bad to the peers of employees. There are plenty of companies who don’t care about racism, they say the right things and move on changing nothing, allowing people who work there to still hold their heads high at dinner parties. However if you have to be the person who works at the place where the “CEO doesn’t care about racism” that’s a lot harder to do.
The winning move here is to say the right things with a somber face regardless of the strategy you intend to execute.
- mhoad 6y agoI was about to say that last paragraph seemed like a bad take but it seems to work for Facebook I guess.
- thu2111 6y agoI think that assumes there's no cost to hypocrisy. It sounds like New Relic have tried the approach you advocate (publicly showing the apparently now mandatory support for BLM) whilst actually trying to ignore it, and that was insufficient for a few of the employees.