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Probably so, but it was incredibly ill advised of Netflix to admit to this. That’s what I find the most shocking, far more than the firing itself. I cannot fath
by jquery 2mo ago
Probably so, but it was incredibly ill advised of Netflix to admit to this. That’s what I find the most shocking, far more than the firing itself. I cannot fathom how admitting “yeah we fired them for going to therapy” plays to their benefit.
- bjt 2mo agoBecause at some point their emails about the firing will be subpoenaed, and if they lie about it now it's going to bite them harder later.
- nvme0n1p1 2mo agoThey still didn't have to outright confess to the crime though. When talking to journalists you're allowed to say "no comment".
- eru 2mo agoThat's why we got training at Google that more or less told us not to put these kinds of things in writing. Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence.
- Scoundreller 2mo agoAnd the O in RTO stands for Oral-communication-only
- lukan 2mo ago"Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence." Were you told this literally?
- eru 2mo agoIt's a common joke, but it's not something you would find literally in the Google-internal official material. They ain't that stupid. The joke ain't Google specific, I might have picked it up working in finance. If you bing the phrase, you'll find plenty of hits in published articles.
- shrikant 2mo agoYeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspaper headline".
- red-iron-pine 2mo ago"assume your mother, and/or the courts, will read it." was the version I heard
- DonsDiscountGas 2mo agoAnd the s stands for secure