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Not a good look for Apple. I understand Apple wanting to maintain their culture of secrecy about their products but their PR and HR people should know that the
by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
Not a good look for Apple.
I understand Apple wanting to maintain their culture of secrecy about their products but their PR and HR people should know that the culture certainly does not have to extend to internal personnel issues.
Why should we trust them when they do stuff like this? Even if she was acting improperly w.r.t. company proprietary information I'd have thought that competent PR folk would know to never fire someone in a position like this because there's no way the company can look good in the aftermath.
- chipotle_coyote 5y ago> Even if she was acting improperly w.r.t. company proprietary information I'd have thought that competent PR folk would know to never fire someone in a position like this because there's no way the company can look good in the aftermath. This is something I do wonder about. We've seen a fair number of cases recently of tech companies firing people who've publicly agitated for changes in the company culture and always claiming, "Oh, no, it's because they were leaking confidential information, it has nothing to do with them being activists." And, okay, I guess that's possible in each and every case, but as you said, not a good look.
- andrewjf 5y agoNot in the immediate news cycle, sure. But overall, it needs to be done.
- sjtindell 5y agoExactly. It is a bandaid, tear it off. You’ll work extra hard for a news cycle or two, rather than allowing an angry employee to poison your other employees for however long. And they’ll be let go eventually anyway.
- dehrmann 5y agoI think Apple knows you're not going out and buying an Android device over this.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoNo, but it puts-off people from considering Apple as a potential employer. I'm not a member of any notable minority group so I'm not really affected, but if a female colleague asked me their opinion of Apple as an employer then I'd point them to articles like this.
- blitzar 5y ago> No, but it puts-off people from considering Apple as a potential employer. I highly doubt apple will lose any sleep over not handing you or the 'female colleague' you cite a 6/7 figure salary each year.
- dehrmann 5y ago> No, but it puts-off people from considering Apple as a potential employer. I'm already put-off my its culture of secrecy.
- Apocryphon 5y agoMaybe we're getting closer to people buying Linux devices.