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Are people surprised when tech executives act like other power hungry execs? The worst part of it was "make a public example of this termination". This doesn't
by JeremyMorgan 13y ago
Are people surprised when tech executives act like other power hungry execs?
The worst part of it was "make a public example of this termination". This doesn't make it any more or less illegal but it shows how drunk on power on he is.
- Wohui 13y ago>it shows how drunk on power on he is. Read the article properly.
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoI did. This isn't about Jobs, it's about the reaction to his demand.
- mikeash 13y ago"Make a public example of this termination" was written by by Google's VP of HR, not Jobs.
- walshemj 13y agoVP of HR so the over-promoted clerical assistant who gets the coffee and biscuits at meetings then :-)
- mikeash 13y agoI imagine you don't mean this and ended up doing this by accident because you didn't bother to research the person at all, but this comment ends up being unbelievably sexist. I would like to have an interesting and informed discussion, but that requires that the other participants do some basic reading before making snide remarks.
- namdnay 13y agoI don't believe he made any reference to the sex of the VP of HR, either explicitly or grammatically...
- mikeash 13y agoThat's why I took so much trouble to give him the benefit of the doubt, because it probably was accidental.
- walshemj 13y agoCalling me "unbelievably sexist" is giving me the benefit of the doubt - so what do you say if you really dont like some one then And you made assumptions about my gender - Check Your privilege mate.
- mikeash 13y agoI called your comment that, and I stand by it. If you can't separate your individual self from a comment you've written, that's your own problem.
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoThat must have been exhausting.
- walshemj 13y agoA CA is not a gendered grade I think it is you who are being sexist by assuming that I meant a female secretary here.
- mikeash 13y agoYou are referring to a woman, as the person in question is female. I assumed you didn't know this and that's why I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but in that context the comment ends up being sexist.
- Tactic 13y agoYou keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.
- lostInTheWoods3 13y agoMake a public example of this termination WTF? When did this become feudal Japan?
- jjoonathan 13y agoThere are two cases where the "obey me without question or else" atmosphere is particularly useful: 1. In the military, where debates and disagreements could create fatal communication problems and delays 2. When the people in power need to suppress a truth that would otherwise be outed in the normal course of discussion
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoYeah, perhaps I was a bit vague, I didn't mean Jobs. I should have said he/she because I don't know the gender of Shona Brown. Jobs was drunk on power too, but I don't think this incident is the best example of it.
- mikeash 13y agoOr you could have looked it up....
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoNot worth the cycles. Gender doesn't really matter when someone's being a douche does it?
- SimHacker 13y ago"Public, but not tooooo public! We'd prefer the facts of the matter not to end up in any newspaper articles."