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It's not mentioned in the article, but an Apple exec recently lost his job over this quote: > “I race cars, play golf and fondle big-breasted women. But I take
by throwing_away 4y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but an Apple exec recently lost his job over this quote:
> “I race cars, play golf and fondle big-breasted women. But I take weekends and major holidays off,” Blevins replied. “Also, if you’re interested, I’ve got a hell of a dental plan.”
Which, although being a very dated Dudley Moore reference, was said while the man was in good spirits on his day off.
You could argue he's paid to know better as an Apple executive, and you'd be right, and Apple was within their rights to fire him, but it's still an unfortunate circumstance of the times.
There's a definite power imbalance when someone with a camera and a plan uses unsuspecting pedestrians as content.
- dangus 4y agoI’m not sure how you can watch that video and think it was an example of a power imbalance. The dude wasn’t under any pretense of not being filmed. He was being directly interviewed not just being overheard or surveilled casually cracking jokes with friends. The cherry on top is that he was likely filmed by his company’s own product, no less. Dude can’t feign ignorance, he’s just another rich asshole who thought he could get away with anything. People like that aren’t used to being told no or having their words result in consequences. There is some major irony in calling the act of a wealthy person being held accountable for the things he says as a power imbalance, especially because the only reason the dude was interviewed was because he was conspicuously displaying his wealth on purpose to get attention. Come on, the guy was wearing a turquoise suit driving an SLR McClaren ($750,000+ car)