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The chronology is fascinating and horrifying. "Physics Today Editor Stephen G. Benka breaks up two conversations between Schmidt and coworker Toni Feder after
by waterlesscloud 12y ago
The chronology is fascinating and horrifying.
"Physics Today Editor Stephen G. Benka breaks up two conversations between Schmidt and coworker Toni Feder after working hours.
Benka bans private conversations in the workplace, saying that all conversations between staff members must be open to monitoring by management.
When Schmidt asks Benka why, Benka refers to the organizing activity that took place the previous year and says he doesn't want that to happen again."
Geez, when you're at the point of banning private conversations among your employees, you should really be thinking there's something seriously wrong with what you're doing.
- pjc50 12y agohttp://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/schmidt/responses/victory-letter.html http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/schmidt/responses/... "While employed at Physics Today, Jeff led a contentious effort to force the magazine to change its long-standing pattern of hiring and training only whites as editors, and to live up to its claim of being an affirmative-action employer. These actions were part of the expression for which Jeff was fired" Maintaining a physics magazine as a whites-only environment is the kind of thing that requires that level of employee repression. It's all about ethics in physics journalism.