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> Bad reputations are hard to repair. I hear this a lot but the job market indicates the opposite. Given sufficient skill and availability everyone is hireable
by 0des 4y ago
> Bad reputations are hard to repair.
I hear this a lot but the job market indicates the opposite. Given sufficient skill and availability everyone is hireable. In your world Jacob Applebaum is giving back rubs to Damore under a bridge somewhere pulling on two ends of a food stamp.
- rglullis 4y agoCan you tell me where Damore is working now, and how it compares in terms of prestige and compensation compared to Google?
- mparkms 4y agoAccording to his Linkedin he's working at an undisclosed startup. Who knows what his compensation is like, but it's not as if going from Google to an early-stage startup is particularly uncommon.
- 0des 4y agoI think the comment you're replying to was supposed to be a 'gotcha', I don't think an actual response was intended. Shrug. I could be wrong, I'm terrible at these things sometimes.
- rglullis 4y agoIt won't be a "gotcha" if you can provide a better example to support your argument that "reputations are easy to repair".
- seattle_spring 4y ago5 bucks says it's Truth Social.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoExceptions are not indicative of the rule. And especially when you compare Damore to someone rescinding their offer, which are nothing alike.
- rglullis 4y agoDo you think that the majority of people that had their reputations tarnished and lost their jobs were re-hired later in another place of equal or higher stature? IOW, do you really think that Damore is the exception to the rule?
- mynameisvlad 4y agoI think that the bar for "had their reputations tarnished" is far higher than "rescinding an accepted offer" which is the topic of this thread. I additionally think that trying to compare someone rescinding an offer with Damore and co is irrelevant when the actions are nowhere near equal, and therefore the reactions would also not be anywhere near the same.
- rglullis 4y agoYou are arguing a different thing, then. The point that was being discussed was whether or not "bad reputations are hard to repair". GP argued that this is not the case and did use an example of someone who got a bad reputation and (to my understanding) has not managed to establish himself in a prestigious position as the one he had.
- mynameisvlad 4y ago"Bad reputations are hard to repair" within the context of a comment thread talking about people renegging on their accepted offers, yes.
- AlbertCory 4y ago> Jacob Applebaum is giving back rubs to Demore under a bridge somewhere It's Damore. And he's working, as far as I know. As for "bad reputations": at Google, and I assume at most modern companies, if an applicant came in who worked somewhere you worked at the same time, you got an automated email asking you to rate that person. I don't think I'd even call that a "backchannel." How much influence did that have? Don't know. I always knew when the bonuses had gone out at Oracle, because I'd get a flood of reference questions for people trying to leave Oracle.
- 0des 4y ago>It's Damore Thanks, fixed