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Our management team received scathing emails from clients and potential clients that said "fire this person or never work in this industry again" (mind you some
by nitrogen 5y ago
Our management team received scathing emails from clients and potential clients that said "fire this person or never work in this industry again" (mind you some of these came from billionaires and CxO's of Private Equity funds).
Has anything like this reached the media, or is the media at similar risk? I'm sure some employment lawyers or journalists out there would love to know more about this kind of backroom pressure, whether right or left.
- mbesto 5y ago> I'm sure some employment lawyers or journalists out there would love to know more about this kind of backroom pressure, whether right or left. Why on earth would I go to the media about <Insert PE Fund with $10B AUM that I don't want to name> when doing so would definitely guarantee me not working in that industry again? Think about that for a second.
- nitrogen 5y agoNot you personally, of course. But I would have thought that the risk of the rumors this kind of pressure being used as a weapon by competitors, if nothing else, would have come into play to minimize this type of undue influence.
- mbesto 5y agoOne of the reasons people buy products/goods is because of social proof - if that social proof erodes (i.e. one of my biggest clients cancels their revenue to me and tells everyone about it) then I have no control over what those clients' competitors say about me.