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Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

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Post by singingtoday »

esikich wrote: post #108
Arainach wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people prefer to work with humans, not robots. Common experiences and getting to know people are a huge part of that. Sharing stories and getting to know people humanizes them. It's much easier to hate "that team in another country" you've never met than that person you've had a meal together with and learned about their hobbies.

Not to mention a lot of things get solved/decided over beers at happy hour. Coworkers shouldn't be your best friends but you're a fool if you're not friendly with them. Like you said, people aren't robots and a business isn't a machine.

Not yet anyways. Not all of them.

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Post by eru »

bjt wrote: post #86
jquery wrote: post #79

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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 fathom how admitting “yeah we fired them for going to therapy” plays to their benefit.

Because 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.

That'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.

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Post by tdeck »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #42
ab71e5 wrote: post #22

So he was fired for sharing he had ketamine based therapy for depression? Why? Like is it promoting drug use or something?

isn't this highly illegal, since it is used for medical purpose (mental health) ? its like firing a person who was sedated by professional Anesthesiologist with Fentanyl during surgery (A friend of mine had a surgery and was administered fentanyl)

Workers rights are "woke" and thus we're not doing them anymore in the US. He should have claimed he was fired for being white.

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Post by vel0city »

chasd00 wrote: post #110
ab71e5 wrote: post #22

So he was fired for sharing he had ketamine based therapy for depression? Why? Like is it promoting drug use or something?

If HR policy says no drugs then that’s a wrap. Allowing an employee to violate HR policy probably puts the company in all sorts of legal risks.

No drugs even in a medical setting? Man, that's intense. Can't take anesthetics when facing surgery or similar situations. No epinephrine for anaphylaxic shock. Can't take insulin. Pretty rough.

Ketamine is an FDA approved drug.

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Post by wxw »

> He had been warned during his performance review that he should “drop one or two less f-bombs but don’t stop entirely.”

> It goes on to say that at the same retreat Baillie drank a Guinness standing on his head, after sharing that he had learned the trick from his former father in law during a conversation inspired by the trust session.

> “His colleague immediately asked for a demonstration, rather than withhold the openness that the session had encouraged, he performed the trick,” the papers say.

This reads like a sitcom.

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Post by jraby3 »

Johnny555 wrote: post #57

Offsite retreats seem like a bad idea in general, I've never been to one where I felt the team or company worked together better afterwards, and I've seen some spectacularly bad results... like the time the facilitator tried to get to the bottom of tensions between the CTO and head of sales (the classic problem of "Engineering isn't shipping features fast enough" and "Sales is selling features before even consulting…

We have one annually for my company. It's at a casino, with a few scheduled meals and some activities (video game room, trivia done by a professional company).

It's voluntary and employees are allowed to bring their spouse. I think it helps a lot with communication, especially since we are a distributed team and most peoplr don't see each other.

But it's hard for me to know for sure, no one tells the owners the truth. It is voluntary and almost everyone attends. I think most people think of it as a free vacation.

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