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If you run a fast food joint and someone leaves during a shift without clearing it first, they are likely to be fired. If they distract the cashier, fry cook an

If you run a fast food joint and someone leaves during a shift without clearing it first, they are likely to be fired. If they distract the cashier, fry cook and grill and they end up leaving it is likely all of them will be put on "no rehire". It is your right to freely protest, but your company isn't obligated to keep you. Customers have more power than employees. If you don't like what Netflix is doing, stop paying them.

mkr-hn 5y ago
This is more like someone being fired because they leaked that one of their coworkers was farting on every burger for laughs.
- staysafeanon 5y ago
  Except in reality their coworkers weren't farting on every burger, they were just giggling over non-PC jokes, and the camera system confirmed that there was no farting. Sadly, the employee that leaked/whistleblew is suffering from a mental illness, and they delusionally thought their coworkers were farting on the burgers.
- mgraczyk 5y ago
  I think a more apt analogy would be a fast food employee believing that the burger patties were harmful, and in response deciding to leak the purchase order for burger patties and buns. The employee may unaware that a rival burger chain could use that information to renegotiate with the supplier. This would potentially hurt the relationship between the employer and the supplier.
- nefitty 5y ago
  The leak involved information on the calculated ROI of Chapelle's last special. This is more akin to a vegan employee leaking how much McDonalds pays for beef, revealing that it is a loss leader. That jeopardizes the relationship and puts the beef company in a difficult position when negotiating with other companies. The vegan feels justified because meat is murder and causes unnecessary suffering. It's interesting that Netflix may be putting subjective artistic quality ahead of profit. How will investors interpret that?
  - Alupis 5y ago
    Specials like Chapelle's bring a ton of eyeballs. Some of those eyeballs will start a Netflix subscription just to see it, or continue to subscribe, or rethink about cancelling... Streaming services like Netflix survive by having content people want to see. How many of us cancel HBO or whatever once the show we're watching is off-season? That's a lot of money to miss out on... making things like Chapelle's special worth while, even if it costs a ton up front. In a weird way, all this hullabaloo surrounding this particular special is actually increasing it's awareness and therefore viewership. These employees are defeating themselves, really...
  - Ekaros 5y ago
    It's like being startup employee and leaking some key metrics. I don't expect that to end up nicely, whatever the person's status is...

mkr-hn 5y ago

This is more like someone being fired because they leaked that one of their coworkers was farting on every burger for laughs.

staysafeanon 5y ago
Except in reality their coworkers weren't farting on every burger, they were just giggling over non-PC jokes, and the camera system confirmed that there was no farting. Sadly, the employee that leaked/whistleblew is suffering from a mental illness, and they delusionally thought their coworkers were farting on the burgers.
mgraczyk 5y ago
I think a more apt analogy would be a fast food employee believing that the burger patties were harmful, and in response deciding to leak the purchase order for burger patties and buns. The employee may unaware that a rival burger chain could use that information to renegotiate with the supplier. This would potentially hurt the relationship between the employer and the supplier.
nefitty 5y ago
The leak involved information on the calculated ROI of Chapelle's last special. This is more akin to a vegan employee leaking how much McDonalds pays for beef, revealing that it is a loss leader. That jeopardizes the relationship and puts the beef company in a difficult position when negotiating with other companies. The vegan feels justified because meat is murder and causes unnecessary suffering. It's interesting that Netflix may be putting subjective artistic quality ahead of profit. How will investors interpret that?
- Alupis 5y ago
  Specials like Chapelle's bring a ton of eyeballs. Some of those eyeballs will start a Netflix subscription just to see it, or continue to subscribe, or rethink about cancelling... Streaming services like Netflix survive by having content people want to see. How many of us cancel HBO or whatever once the show we're watching is off-season? That's a lot of money to miss out on... making things like Chapelle's special worth while, even if it costs a ton up front. In a weird way, all this hullabaloo surrounding this particular special is actually increasing it's awareness and therefore viewership. These employees are defeating themselves, really...
- Ekaros 5y ago
  It's like being startup employee and leaking some key metrics. I don't expect that to end up nicely, whatever the person's status is...