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Sometimes I feel like people are trying to be offended... If you look at the full quote, he wasn't talking about his company. He was talking about his friends i
by npizzolato 12y ago
Sometimes I feel like people are trying to be offended... If you look at the full quote, he wasn't talking about his company. He was talking about his friends in his personal life.
"Allow me to draw an example from my personal life. I have hundreds of friends, but I only consider a couple of them close enough to call my brothers. They call me the same. That doesn’t mean we have the same mother and came from the same womb. It’s simply a way to say that my relationship with them is more akin to the one I have with my two actual sisters than it is to most of my friendships. My “brothers” know all about me and I them, just like my real sisters do."
Maybe the only close friends he has that are as close as family are male. Are you suggesting he's sexist for that?
- polemic 12y agoI'm suggesting that he should be mindful of what he's saying, and how that impacts his staff, and the message that he's projecting to future hires. I really don't mind if people roll their eyes at me :) just that they consider the possibility that it was a poor choice of words.
- kelnos 12y agoI wouldn't agree that it was a poor choice of words. The kind of people who are so sensitive that they get offended by trivial things like that are not the kind of people I'd want working with/for me. And yes, that's a value judgment of mine that it's "trivial". Others are welcome to feel differently, but I'm welcome to (as you put) roll my eyes, and think it's a bit silly.