PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

Post by quantified » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 7:40 PM UTC

BaseballPhysics wrote: post #79

KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #68

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In my book, the unsurpassed champion is Marissa Mayer. She was a product manager at early Google who dated Sergey and was promoted to VP. One of her accomplishments at Google was choosing the palette for the Google logo using a data-driven process. Based off of this success, she was made the CEO of Yahoo!, which she promptly proceeded to drive into the ground.

Now now, let's not understate the accomplishments of Elizabeth Holmes.

Post by isoos » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 7:41 PM UTC

belter wrote: post #53

"A CEO, a laborer, and an immigrant are at a table: the table has 20 cookies. The CEO takes 19 cookies and says to the laborer, “look out, that immigrant is trying to take your cookie!”

Post by Johnny555 » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 7:41 PM UTC

dennis_jeeves1 wrote: post #88

jeffwask wrote: post #21

I'm really happy for her. Worst CEO has typically been a male dominated category. It's nice see some diversity in lacking empathy and having over inflated egos.

Speaking about diversity. We need some diversity among men who collect garbage and plumbers. Why? Because diversity is good. /s

Post by dennis_jeeves1 » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 7:43 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #104

dennis_jeeves1 wrote: post #88

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Speaking about diversity. We need some diversity among men who collect garbage and plumbers. Why? Because diversity is good. /s

You say that like it's not the goal. Yes, women are more vocal about male dominated careers that they're actively trying to enter but you're missing the forest. For adult women the damage of "has never even thought about a career as a plumber because that's a boy job" has already been done. You could probably name 20 careers that are like this for both men and women off the top of your head. That doesn't mean it's no…

Post by breck » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #110

klyrs wrote: post #8

> Nonetheless, it all starts to go downhill when she decides to use the same email where she announces layoffs to celebrate recent employee promotions, reveal good financial results for the fourth quarter of last year, and state that the company expects to end the year strong. The MLK quote: > ‘the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] sta…

The original MLK quote doesn’t actually seem, to me at least, to be much about leadership at all. More about personal virtue or something. The brackets were used to totally change the meaning rather than clarify the context (which is what they are conventionally used for). This is not really a quote at all, it is a new sentiment written in the general shape of something Dr. King wrote. This makes it seem even tackier…