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This is in the wake of Coinbase decision to be a "mission focused company" and prevent their employees from speaking out about political issues at the workplace
by slg 6y ago
This is in the wake of Coinbase decision to be a "mission focused company" and prevent their employees from speaking out about political issues at the workplace. It shows the dangers of being apolitical when saying "Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job" is apparently still a political statement.
- jonsno56 6y agoIt seems “corporations are people too” but employees aren’t
- briane80 6y ago>Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job If only that's what it was about and not one group trying to force woke politics into the workplace.
- slg 6y agoThis is exactly my point. What in this article is "woke politics"? It is all just basic "don't be racist" problems. When that is labeled as "woke politics" and you can't talk politics, we have a problem.
- briane80 6y agoIf you read the rebuttal Coinbase did 3 investigations, 2 of them by external reviewers (with the doucmentation made available to the nytimes) who found no evidence in the complaints. This is a hatchet job by the woke nytimes using identity politcs to cow a company who refused to kneel.
- Pils 6y agoFrom the article: > Ms. Butler said she was not told how to make an official complaint; Ms. Sawyerr said she never spoke to an investigator and was not informed of the findings “Absence of evidence” etc. etc.
- snicksnak 6y agothey did three investigations because coinbase only received three official complaints.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoIf there is no evidence, what are they being pressured to "kneel" to?
- briane80 6y agoMaybe you're not aware of the back story. Coinbase was one of the few large companies that did not go all woke over the George Floyd incident. The identity politics activists in the company took offence to this and demanded management make a statement. When management refused to bend the knee the activists made allegations of racism and took them to the nytimes.
- sfkdjf9j3j 6y agoI feel like someone needs to put a big flag at the top of the comments section asking people to at least skim the article. Maybe the problem is the paywall? Anyway, the people they spoke to all left the company prior to George Floyd's death.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoIt's the reason the article comes up now, and not last year.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoWhat do you mean by "go all woke"? You are being very vague, maybe you should be more specific.
- seibelj 6y agoI don’t see why we need to be debating politics all day in the work place. I can guarantee you my politics (libertarian / capitalist / corporatist / anti-collectivism) will do nothing but enrage you and debates in public chats, lunch, etc. will serve nothing of purpose. Isn’t it better if we save the philosophical debates for beers and the ballot box? I don’t want to hear your soap box and you don’t want to hear mine.
- slg 6y agoYou missed the point of my comment entirely. The issue is how "politics" is defined. I couldn't care less if Coinbase banned people from talking about the estate tax or free trade. However it is a problem when people can't speak up about the discrimination they feel at work.
- seibelj 6y agoYou are talking about something that is so wrong it warrants a front page NYT expose and results in potentially multi-million dollar lawsuits. I can understand why a company wouldn’t want to promote sessions where everyone accuses the corporation of systemic discrimination.
- mempko 6y agoYou can't separate work from politics. The fact that you have a job in the first place is political.
- seibelj 6y agoAnd your “everything is political even the apple you eat” post-modernist schlock is the attitude I want to avoid.
- klyrs 6y agohttps://globalnews.ca/news/7428870/millions-of-apples-rotting-okanagan/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7428870/millions-of-apples-rottin... But, even the apple you eat, though.
- smoovb 6y ago> As many tech leaders publicly voiced support for Black Lives Matter protests, Black employees at Coinbase said on the Slack messaging platform that they were hurt by the silence of Mr. Armstrong and other executives about the matter. Also seems like lack of making a statement is now a workplace risk according to the tone of the article.