Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
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Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
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Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#2On the one hand, they should have known better than to use netflix communication channels to talk negatively about work/bosses.
On the other hand, it's a REALLY bad look for Netflix to fire employees for chatting negatively about their boss in private messages. The whole "we're radically transparent" sounds like a horrible excuse for someone's ego getting bruised. I guarantee there are hundreds if not thousands of private chats on their slack with employees complaining about coworkers.
I presume they're now combing through every private chat and terminating any employee who said something negative about a coworker? No?
Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#3On the one hand, they should have known better than to use netflix communication channels to talk negatively about work/bosses. On the other hand, it's a REALLY bad look for Netflix to fire employees for chatting negatively about their boss in private messages. The whole "we're radically transparent" sounds like a horrible excuse for someone's ego getting bruised. I guarantee there are hundreds if not thousands of pr…
It's unclear if these were private messages. It's possible these were posted on public channels. AFAIK, Slack doesn't allow companies/IT access to private messages unless there are legal implications.
Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#4I have no problem with this. I worked at a company about five years ago where employees used G chat to say some really nasty things about other employees. I only found out because one of them was using a temporary laptop that we had to do presentations, and I opened it up and G chat loaded and there was this disgusting talk about other employees trashing them, talking about the religion, all of this stuff. People vent, I get that, but letting employees gossip about one another on a work provided service undermines cohesion and the ability to get the job done. If you want to complain about your fellow coworkers, go to a bar, don’t do it on the company provided slack channel. It’s grossly unprofessional.
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Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#7On the one hand, they should have known better than to use netflix communication channels to talk negatively about work/bosses. On the other hand, it's a REALLY bad look for Netflix to fire employees for chatting negatively about their boss in private messages. The whole "we're radically transparent" sounds like a horrible excuse for someone's ego getting bruised. I guarantee there are hundreds if not thousands of pr…
It's unclear if these were private messages. It's possible these were posted on public channels. AFAIK, Slack doesn't allow companies/IT access to private messages unless there are legal implications.
There are multiple articles about the issue and it literally states they were private messages in them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-fires-marketing-exec...
> Netflix has fired three senior executives within its film marketing team for airing complaints via private Slack messages
Yes, slack absolutely allows IT to view your private messages.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/slack-private-...
Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#8I mean they could have just done it on Blind instead.
Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#9On the one hand, they should have known better than to use netflix communication channels to talk negatively about work/bosses. On the other hand, it's a REALLY bad look for Netflix to fire employees for chatting negatively about their boss in private messages. The whole "we're radically transparent" sounds like a horrible excuse for someone's ego getting bruised. I guarantee there are hundreds if not thousands of pr…
>"we're radically transparent"
Didn't Ray Dalio patent that or something?
Re: Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack
#10I have no problem with this. I worked at a company about five years ago where employees used G chat to say some really nasty things about other employees. I only found out because one of them was using a temporary laptop that we had to do presentations, and I opened it up and G chat loaded and there was this disgusting talk about other employees trashing them, talking about the religion, all of this stuff. People ven…
Certainly company tools are under company control. Yet in the age of the pandemic consider that the bar isn't an option. One could start a Signal conversation or group, but it's higher effort.
Of course there are some lines we shouldn't cross, even if just venting. Hopefully we can all learn to be more gracious and humble, while maintaining a healthy amount of candor.