Another one in a similar vein. True story? Sure. Relevant to companies dealing with the aftermath of COVID and development of WFH strategies? Sure. Completely disconnected from the vast majority of employees and their ability to be able to ‘protest’ working conditions? Abso-fucking-lutely.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/top-apple-executive-quits-1-million-job-over-returntowork-policy/news-story/576208a3ee2d1862be919ef03d2fee5b
True but oversold. He was far from a “top exec”.
That said, I admire his willingness to stand on his principles. Good for him. I hope it will help others who don’t have his level of financial independence.
Yeah, I was an L6 at Amazon and that’s pretty much spot on.
Jazar
4251
Yeah that part hurt my brain.
I think about that quote from an old Wire article
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
This has been fascinating to watch.
My personal take: the original retweet was in poor taste, which does actually matter for an apparently senior reporter that represents the brand and should know better. A month without pay seems too harsh, but some response by WaPo was warranted. I think a contrite apology (which was offered) and stern (verbal) public rebuke by WaPo would have been proportionate.
But: going public on Twitter after 2 minutes of reporting it internally seems like glory seeking by the complainant. And, much worse, the public arguments between her and other WaPo staff since have been much less defensible. The moral outrage starts to look more and more disingenuous as the Twitter threads carry on for days and days and hundreds of posts. Some things are better dealt with via HR and a cool headed process, not rapid fire public threads at all hours of the day and night.
Thrag
4254
One of the base problems with social media is it encourages people to immediately share their unfiltered thoughts with the entire world. Twitter is of course the worst of this as it encourages one to do so in short hot takes.
Among the various public service announcements I would fund should I become a billionare would be a series of bits emphasizing the fact that it is not wise to share one’s unfiltered throughts with the entire world. The downside risk that you may be saying something that in hindsight wasn’t such a good idea is far greater than the reward of internet points. I mean seriously people.
But I should have realized the direction of our dystopia decades ago when it was clear people couldn’t handle the responsibility that came with the power of the “reply all” button.
The Stars My Destination saves the world by giving everyone on the planet nuclear bombs anyone can detonate with their minds.
Ah, the 50’s, a such an innocent time.
This almost led to orange juice all over my screen!
I recall once, over a decade ago, when a place I was working at was going through union negotiations between staff and management. At one point one member of the staff side “accidentally” hit reply all to the entire organization (over 1000). This led to two things:
- thousands of reply all’s in an email chain that made inboxes inoperable for weeks
- much consternation and acrimony among staff that were critical or supportive of the specific negotiating positions within the email
As with the Twitter criticism, the second point really highlighted to me (a junior contractor ona 6-month assignment with zero skin in the game) that total transparency into a process, at all steps, can lead to worse outcomes for all. Negotiators sometimes need time to hash out differences privately, without public grandstanding.
wahoo
4257
WaPO is having I think the worst week I can ever see from a major media publication that didn’t involve someone just making up a story a la Blair/Glass. Just epic meltdowns but what might make this worse is that an unhinged WAPO reporter is just hammering the rest of the newsroom staff and hinting the rest of the newsroom are racists. Just a PR nightmare.
On a positive note, if you like books you should follow Carlos Lozada on twitter and read everything he writes. Just an amazingly thoughtfull writer and puliter winner. Does book review/criticism for WaPo.
Aleck
4258
You would think that journalistic professionals would know the value of a good editor… But apparently not.
After the lawsuit, a lucrative substack for the terminated. Everyone has their following.
ShivaX
4261
I saw someone say something to that effect before I posted Ken’s thing.
Thrag
4262
The line between satire and reality further blurs.
Timex
4263
Jokes aside, Cheney would be a pointless addition…Biden will likely already have the non-insane ex-GOP members voting for him, and the rest of the GOP hates her.
KevinC
4264
God, I hate our media so much. WTF is this framing?? This on the CNN front page.
I felt the same about this headlines use of despise. That’s such a harsh word, which wasn’t mentioned in the poll the article is based on.
I’ve trained my brain to recognize and avoid clickbait, sensationalist news. This is one that would send off alarms. Bad choice, CNN.
Timex
4267
If you are segregating yourself based on political affiliation, part of me finds that weird.
I mean, it may be that differences you’d base your friendships on might lead to party affiliations, but I feel like hard core political folks need to understand that most normal human beings only have their political party as like 0.01% of their personality and identification.
