That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired • Hacker News Board

Re: That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired

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Post by longerthoughts » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 10:41 PM UTC

Aqua wrote: post #12

> So I looked at my husband and asked the big question: How far would he support me in taking this? What if I didn’t delete the tweet and I got fired for it and we lost our health insurance? He told me to stand my ground, even though he’s in multiple high-risk categories for COVID as a cancer survivor with asthma, and that’s why I love him so much. Heh I'll probably get downvoted for saying this, but that's not brave…

>it costs nothing to delete a tweet

this assumes placing no value on principles or pride, which is probably not true of most people and varies by individual. you can’t reasonably price this for a person you don’t know.

>but the loss of her job could potentially cost her everything

again, you can’t answer this for somebody you don’t know. she’s in a better position to estimate the probability of being fired and how much it would cost her.

clearly she thought a 100% probability of giving in was more downside than an x% chance of losing her job. the preference is individual even if we know all of the variables, which we don’t.

Re: That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired

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Post by longerthoughts » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 10:50 PM UTC

yanderekko wrote: post #14

minimaxir wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a difference between being fired for an innocuous negative joke about a company and being fired for transphobia and antisemitism .

Right, as long as you can pretextually (very pretextually, in the Gina Carano case) justify your outrage as "punching up" along those lines, you're fine! The OP clearly understands this as well, as she repeatedly stresses that the person who was upset with her was both male and likely richer than her (I'll assume that he wasn't white, or else that likely would have been mentioned as well) - therefore any sort of nega…

> I'll assume that he wasn't white, or else that likely would have been mentioned as well

you are wrong. he is.

Re: That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired

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Post by longerthoughts » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 11:01 PM UTC

brianberns wrote: post #7

I fully support this lady’s “right to say dumb shit on the internet”, but if Gina Carano can be fired by Disney for her tweets, so can she (who actually wasn’t even fired). Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences.

was this really about whether or not Figma had a right to fire her if they’d decided to? afaict the intended point was that Sprinklr exposed themselves as insecure and vindictive over something relatively small and still haven’t been able to let it go.

Re: That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired

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Post by ugh123 » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

readflaggedcomm wrote: post #16

ugh123 wrote: post #13

I had to read this twice to understand how the Sprinklr VP tried to get her fired. He didn't. They threatened legal action and thats about it. The author overreacted and then let that contribute to "burn out" which influenced her decision to leave the company.

He was "in a position of power" and she was willing to be fired. Her feelings are valid even if she isn't a white male.

Sure, her feelings are valid. But personally attacking someone by assuming ill intent (and clearly misunderstanding intent) isn't a valid excuse.