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> “He used to say, ‘I crush people,”’ one former DeepMind employee told Insider The horror...
by xioren00 5y ago
> “He used to say, ‘I crush people,”’ one former DeepMind employee told Insider
The horror...
- paulryanrogers 5y agoIs this reaction sarcastic? As if to say "I'm not afraid of people who boast of crushing others"?
- xioren00 5y agoAre you saying you would be afraid of this person for that comment? Part of being an adult is learning to deal with adversity.
- jonathankoren 5y agoPart of being an adult is to give up behaving like — and excusing — a bully.
- munchler 5y ago“I crush people” is an unacceptable attitude for a manager to take regarding his own employees. Whether those employees can handle that sort of counterproductive adversity is irrelevant.
- xioren00 5y agoWe don't live in a utopia. There are going to be people that say and do things that you dislike; That's reality. Instead of running to an authority figure to complain every time you encounter adversity, like a child, people need to learn to handle those situations...like adults. Someone acting mean or making an off color comment like this are a fact of life. No amount of safe spaces and down voting inconvenient truths is going to change that.
- munchler 5y agoI don’t think you read what I wrote. This has nothing to do with anyone’s ability to handle adversity. It’s about whether “I crush people” is an acceptable management style. Hint: It isn’t.
- simias 5y agoI would probably handle the situation like an adult. By quitting. People dealing with the consequences of their actions are a fact of life. I want my place of work to be a safe pace and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If I want to confront somebody's tamper tantrum I'd... do exactly what I'm doing right now, really.
- xioren00 5y ago@munchler I did read what you wrote, I meant to reply to the commenter below. As for your point, clearly the higher ups at Google disagree.
- burnished 5y agoSo, duels at dawn? No? Talking about it? But you don't like to hear about it. Uhm, hmmm, how does an adult handle a situation?
- kitsune_ 5y agoThe only people in need of a safe space are people who say "I crush people" and then are unable to deal with the blowback.
- thereare5lights 5y agoThe normal way to resolve this is with violence. You should shouldn't have left that part out of your spiel.
- kitsune_ 5y agoUhm, isn't pushing back against such "adversarial behaviour" one of the adult ways to deal with such behaviours? What are you trying to say?
- rsynnott 5y agoI mean, I'm not sure that I'd be afraid of them; it comes across as kind of comical. Obviously, though, I don't think they'd make an appropriate people manager.
- fortuna86 5y agoThe amount of excuse making in this thread is insane.