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Honestly, the best thing he could have done is stay silent. Now he's shined a negative light towards IBM

• wheaties 14y ago
  No, he's not speaking for IBM. The internet will recognize he's speaking for his wife. IBM might pull him aside and tell him he's not helping things if they have any common sense.
  • warmwaffles 14y ago
    I recognize he is defending his wife, but this still is bad PR for IBM either way you cut it. If he was caught for DWI, do you think it wouldn't reflect poorly on IBM?
• purephase 14y ago
  How so? I don't see this as reflective of his employer. Looks like a guy trying to defend his wife. I imagine his personal life is in a bit of disarray at the moment. I'm not defending anyone here and I believe there was prosecutorial overreach in this case, but I disagreed with the family's use of their son's obituary to make a political statement. He was obviously a troubled man if he believed suicide was his only option. He needed assistance (and reading through his posts, it seems obvious in retrospect) and I think a better statement would have pushed for improved mental health awareness and assistance in the US.
  • toyg 14y ago
    > How so? I don't see this as reflective of his employer. Easy: they hired a "Social Business Development" executive who doesn't understand social media in the first place (i.e. when an internet mob is out, you ain't gonna stop it with one puny twitter account). Also, we now know that they hired the husband of a well-connected US Attorney prosecutor with political ambitions. Of course they did it because of his qualifications, nobody is saying otherwise, but y'know, people talk and stuff.