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And the Email he sent: https://kriegman.substack.com/p/email-for-which-i-was-fired https://kriegman.substack.com/p/email-for-which-i-was-fired > Action became
by awb 5y ago
And the Email he sent: https://kriegman.substack.com/p/email-for-which-i-was-fired https://kriegman.substack.com/p/email-for-which-i-was-fired
> Action became more urgent when Thomson Reuters began to inject pro-BLM political propaganda into the workplace through a series of official company events that invited BLM activists to the company, where they proceeded to spread some of the very falsehoods that have so devastated disadvantaged black communities.
Yeah, sending an unsolicited mass Email accusing co-workers of promoting propaganda is not going to go over well. Harsh, abrasive language targeting co-workers and management is a 100% fireable offense.
> Almost immediately, my post started to receive a barrage of bizarre, hateful, abusive, and ultimately extremely racist comments from Thomson Reuters employees.
> For example, one commenter condemned the stats that I presented in my post (which were taken directly from official government sources) as “inaccurate”, “false and/or fraudulent”
That doesn’t sound hatful, abusive or extremely racist. But publicly condemning your colleagues without any reasonable evidence is a pretty sure fire way to get fired.
> Fully 13 Thomson Reuters employees expressed their approval of condemning my post based on this race fantasy by publicly "liking" it and attaching their names to it. If it were only a single disturbed individual it would be easier to ignore his troubling condemnation. However, with 13 people publicly expressing their agreement, it began to feel like there was some kind of group harassment going on.
Yikes, this again shows absolutely no rational thought process. And yeah calling your colleagues “disturbed individuals” means you’re going to get fired.
I didn’t read the rest, it’s just more ranting, name calling and whining. Either this guy is one of the most clueless people I’ve ever met on how to communicate and behave in a workplace environment or this was a largely intentional act to get fired in a blaze of virtue signaling to the right.
It’s fine if you want to die on a hill, but at least come prepared for the consequences. To write that post and unsolicited follow up Email berating his colleagues and bosses and be surprised at the consequences strikes me as one of the most naïve things I’ve ever seen or heard about in the workplace.
I hope his ideology is more important to him than his career because that’s the signal he’s broadcasting loud and clear. And there is some virtue in that, but then at least go work for someone who celebrates your ideology, don’t try to slam your ideology down people’s throats with a massive essay (with shaky conclusions) and then criticize them publicly in a mass Email when they’re offended by you.
Not everyone is going to agree with you and that’s pretty important to understand working at a traditional news agency.
With the “silence is violence” quip, this guy sounds like a pissed off conservative who tried to “own the libs”, but instead just disrespected his employer, bosses and colleagues and got fired for it.
Hopefully he has a career in data science for conservatives because it’s pretty clear he has no respect for those that disagree with him.