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‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
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#22I hope Coinbase does not bend the knee. I don't like the idea of crypto too much, but it should be for everybody.
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#2311 of then ~20 Black employees by early 2019* had complained to HR about racism. That's over half! And that's only the people with the fortitude or optimism to talk to HR (HR is notoriously useless at many companies). That's a complete disaster. 15 of that 20 quit! Why wasn't that treated as an emergency? *At the end the article says at the end of 2019 there's 31 Black employees of 1000. At the beginning of the artic…
It was treated as a disaster - they labeled the leavers as “political” and announced they instituted policies to prevent future “political” employees.
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#24This is in the wake of Coinbase decision to be a "mission focused company" and prevent their employees from speaking out about political issues at the workplace. It shows the dangers of being apolitical when saying "Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job" is apparently still a political statement.
>Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job If only that's what it was about and not one group trying to force woke politics into the workplace.
This is exactly my point. What in this article is "woke politics"? It is all just basic "don't be racist" problems. When that is labeled as "woke politics" and you can't talk politics, we have a problem.
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#25> Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees I hate this kind of sloppy writing. who added that, the colleague or the manager? EDIT: Downvoted. I guess clarity in the NYT isn't allowed to be questioned..
It reads fine to me, it’s obviously the employee mentioned in the beginning of the paragraph “Still another”
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job If only that's what it was about and not one group trying to force woke politics into the workplace.
This is exactly my point. What in this article is "woke politics"? It is all just basic "don't be racist" problems. When that is labeled as "woke politics" and you can't talk politics, we have a problem.
If you read the rebuttal Coinbase did 3 investigations, 2 of them by external reviewers (with the doucmentation made available to the nytimes) who found no evidence in the complaints. This is a hatchet job by the woke nytimes using identity politcs to cow a company who refused to kneel.
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#2711 of then ~20 Black employees by early 2019* had complained to HR about racism. That's over half! And that's only the people with the fortitude or optimism to talk to HR (HR is notoriously useless at many companies). That's a complete disaster. 15 of that 20 quit! Why wasn't that treated as an emergency? *At the end the article says at the end of 2019 there's 31 Black employees of 1000. At the beginning of the artic…
According to the article 15 black people left in total between late '18 early '19. It seems that the compliance team makes up the major part of the departures (up to 8 quit, depends how you read it). From the article this could be attributed to coinbase opening an office in portland and employees declined to move.
The headline also mentions that black people were fired, but never follows up on it.
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#28Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...
> As Brian shared with the ColorBlock ERG this morning, we don’t care what The New York Times thinks. The most important thing we care about is you, our employees, and what you think. (As long as you’re of the correct skin tone and political ideology)
and as long as you don't have any political thoughts. don't want those.
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#2911 of then ~20 Black employees by early 2019* had complained to HR about racism. That's over half! And that's only the people with the fortitude or optimism to talk to HR (HR is notoriously useless at many companies). That's a complete disaster. 15 of that 20 quit! Why wasn't that treated as an emergency? *At the end the article says at the end of 2019 there's 31 Black employees of 1000. At the beginning of the artic…
It was treated as a disaster - they labeled the leavers as “political” and announced they instituted policies to prevent future “political” employees.
Ah more power to them. No sane person wants political activists in your company, spreading identity politics and wokism.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exactly my point. What in this article is "woke politics"? It is all just basic "don't be racist" problems. When that is labeled as "woke politics" and you can't talk politics, we have a problem.
If you read the rebuttal Coinbase did 3 investigations, 2 of them by external reviewers (with the doucmentation made available to the nytimes) who found no evidence in the complaints. This is a hatchet job by the woke nytimes using identity politcs to cow a company who refused to kneel.
From the article:
> Ms. Butler said she was not told how to make an official complaint; Ms. Sawyerr said she never spoke to an investigator and was not informed of the findings
“Absence of evidence” etc. etc.