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Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by PiggySpeed »

nsainsbury wrote: post #4

I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence". In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opin…

I'm starting a new job soon and I'm trying to figure out how I'll handle these "silence is complicit" characters. My personal policy is to not discuss political/social issues at work.

Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by [deleted] »

PiggySpeed wrote: post #21
nsainsbury wrote: post #4

I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence". In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opin…

I'm starting a new job soon and I'm trying to figure out how I'll handle these "silence is complicit" characters. My personal policy is to not discuss political/social issues at work.

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Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by sergiotapia »

>Dail said the tweet that prompted his firing, which he sent the day after that walkout, scolded a fellow engineer for declining to add a statement of support to developer documents he was publishing.

>“Intentionally not making a statement is already political,” Dail wrote in the tweet.

Yeah good riddance, imagine FORCING someone to say _anything_. And you twitter clowns are the good guys? Hardly.

Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by baby »

I'm a bit disappointed at articles like this, that IMO really don't reflect what I'm seeing...

What I'm seeing is a lot of internal discussions, a lot of people challenging execs, a lot of people changing their profile pictures, etc.

Politics are always going to be a dividing subject, and I find it quite remarkable that we are all able to debate about these topics, and are even encouraged to do so. Sure, not everyone agree with some of the decisions the company is taking, but you gotta respect the transparency and the willingness to explain and discuss these decisions.

I don't think many companies would allow people to do this, and they would also probably get rid of people sharing too much.

Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by dvtrn »

PiggySpeed wrote: post #21
nsainsbury wrote: post #4

I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence". In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opin…

I'm starting a new job soon and I'm trying to figure out how I'll handle these "silence is complicit" characters. My personal policy is to not discuss political/social issues at work.

Kill em with kindness.

“Thanks for letting me know how you feel about this, I consider this a valuable opinion and think deeply on it”.

Then go ahead and do whatever you were going to do anyway, but at least let them know you’ve heard and acknowledged what they had to say. Sometimes folks just want to be acknowledged, that doesn’t seem like too much of a burden.

Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by [deleted] »

zachrip wrote: post #18
Avicebron wrote: post #3

There isn't a lot of information, for what it's worth I would be interested in how "public" his confrontation was, depending on that this could be more of a knee-jerk "this person is yikes" vs. sinister "don't stray from the party line"

Extremely public: https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1267895488205869057 - so public in fact, he brought the private messages out publicly as well.

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Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by JohnBerea »

dceddia wrote: post #11
JohnBerea wrote: post #5

> Trump’s posts included the racially charged phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” How is that racially charged?

The phrase has some history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the...

Is the history of that phrase commonly known? That long and detailed Wikipedia Article was only created after Trump said the phrase:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=When_the_looting_...

Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by underwater »

nsainsbury wrote: post #4

I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence". In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opin…

He called out a colleague, and then when the colleague reached out to him privately so they could discuss, called him out again for not conversing in public on Twitter.

I'm sympathetic to his motivations, but his behaviour was unprofessional and unwarranted.

Re: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

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Post by _b3dj »

> “Intentionally not making a statement is already political,” Dale wrote in the tweet

No it’s not. And this reminds me of the Dictatorship of the small minority [0] from NN Taleb. There are small intolerant minorities who are extremely vocal on certain matters to the point their opinions resemble a dictatorship

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

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