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Seattle software firm Outreach.io employee fired for not liking bodegas
- itisit 4y agoGuy basically pointed out he lives in a food desert, which is a serious health issue for many urban communities.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoYup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert > A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
- ss108 4y agoDude definitely didn't deserve to get fired for that. Unless they fired him for being too stupid to locate a real grocery store in New York City lol
- drewcon 4y ago
- acidburnNSA 4y agoWhat kind of dark world do we live in where you can get fired for posting a video that benign? This is outrageous.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoWe live in a time where a Twitter account with <100 users can complain and get a person fired from their job. This is sad and it looks really bad on Outreach.
- AlwaysRock 4y agoWell... The account didnt get someone fired. The video the person posted online did. Someone just brought it to their attention and it seems like they were a pretty junior employee that was easy to lose.
- AlwaysRock 4y agoYikes. He clearly got fires for the "Ock / let me get it the Ocky" way comment. Not for not liking bodegas. I'm not saying the firing was deserved. Just that the headline is clearly misleading.
- wollsmoth 4y agowhat does auk/auky mean?
- AlwaysRock 4y agoThe bit in the video where he says its like those tik toks where people say hey Ock let me get an egg sandwich the Ocky way is him using an accent while describing tik toks where people yell at middle eastern people in bodegas to make them a sandwich, "their way". In 2022 its racially insensitive enough to be offensive to a lot of people. That is why they got in trouble. That and their other, worse, tik toks. Not for saying they couldnt find a grocery store.
- AlwaysRock 4y agoFor referance: https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/nyc-bodega-gets-tiktok-famous-for-ocky-way-sandwiches/ https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/nyc-bodega-gets-tiktok-famous-...
- AlwaysRock 4y agoYeah... It's pretty clear they looked at his tik tok and the racial comments are why he got fired... https://twitter.com/DNetxy/status/1541568953805406209 https://twitter.com/DNetxy/status/1541568953805406209 Bought an NAAPC shirt so he could fit in with, "Those people" at his gym in the Bronx better.
- jnwatson 4y agoGeneral Ock is the name of the cook that makes food-porn sandwiches. There’s nothing racist about it.
- ttymck 4y agoOutreach doesn't explicitly state the reason he was terminated. There are a number of tweets suggesting it wasn't the bodegas video. It's certainly not a good look, but this title is jumping to conclusions.
- heretogetout 4y agoI think I'm missing all of the context. Who is this person? How do we know he was fired (or worked for the company)? All we have here is a video of someone talking to camera and no other information. And yes, I did search, and the only results I found were right here on HN.
- christkv 4y agoThe company literally confirmed he got fired on twitter if you look at the thread.
- heretogetout 4y agoI haven't found it yet, but Twitter only shows me two or three replies at a time. Seems like this post should have just linked to that.
- mc32 4y agoHe's complaining that everything that was located in his apple maps as a grocery store was a corner store that didn't sell actual groceries but some packaged food and junk food. He gats fired for satirizing Apple maps basically but they take it as insulting the corner stores --and even if he were, so what? What kind of BS world do we live in where bosses give a shit what you think of the grocery store or corner store down the block?
- a-dub 4y ago> What kind of BS world do we live in where bosses give a shit what you think of the grocery store or corner store down the block? they don't care about that. they do care if you go on social media and make an ass of yourself by mocking people who are less fortunate, damaging the hard work of everyone else in the company by sullying its brand.
- mc32 4y agoWho knew who this person was? This person wasn't the CEO or the head of PR. In this case it looks like they are listening for trees falling in a forest. Everyone is an arse at one time or another. Just have to put them in the wrong circumstance --late for an important appointment, refuse to treat them extraordinarily when they are trying to impress other people, do something that is ordinary but goes against their current thought leadership, etc. They should go ahead fire the whole company for they know everyone will be an arse some time in their lives.
- a-dub 4y ago> Everyone is an arse at one time or another. sure, but publishing with hopes of going viral is a different animal altogether. it was extremely poor judgement on the part of the employee that once again endangered everyone else's hard work. assuming he doesn't go too viral, hopefully it will just be a lesson.
- mc32 4y agoOh, I agree it's juvenile. But it's not a reason to fire someone. Its also juvenile to drive drunk (this has the potential of resulting in injury and death of others). It's juvenile to curse someone out. This is not a good reason to fire someone. If we were to trawl TikTok, we would come up with a good amount of people to fire from many companies, if we go by this criterion. Where is the "restorative justice" people in these circles usually clamor for? Where is HR? Aren't they supposed to correct behavior when it veers?
- nrmitchi 4y agoI really seems like this is about to become a pile-on against a company's actions based on a single tweet, showing one side of a story. Even half-way through that one video he makes a comment/accent that (while I have really no context around) feels like a racial mockery, and some cursory reading shows that the same account had other posts (homophobic context, "buying NAACP shirt so these people [Black people] vibe with me more", etc). Is firing someone too far? Perhaps. But this really doesn't seem like someone getting fired for a comment about bodegas.
- Gunax 4y agoMeanwhile publications love calling White culture ugly. Shows you who the real racists are.