Apology from Geeklist
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Apology from Geeklist
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#2"Never Ruin an Apology With an Excuse!"
The best advice I ever read... from a readers digest about 15 years ago.
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#3So....is this an apology or a design like whoa marketing scheme??
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#4"Never Ruin an Apology With an Excuse!" The best advice I ever read... from a readers digest about 15 years ago.
Wonderful comment!
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#5I could care less about Geeklist but from a purely analytical perspective: this is so "how not to write an apology" that someone ought to take it apart and do an annotated version of it as a lesson to the community. It literally starts out in its first sentence by undermining itself.
Incidentally, publicly threatening the job of someone who criticizes you (as a tit-for-tat for them "threatening your brand") is one of those slip-ups for which no apology is going to stem the tide of drama. I'm sure this will all be forgotten in a week, but until then: Geeklist is the villain and just needs to roll with it. As long as they're in this PR hole, maybe they should tie someone to a train track and make some demands.
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#6"We never meant to offend any woman and are very sorry as we clearly have." and "In my wildest dreams we would never wish to offend any woman."
This is pretty frustrating, although I certainly accept that it's probably unintentional. I was offended by their behavior, and I'm not a woman.
I also don't appreciate the defensive "but I have tons of black friends" rhetoric. I don't care that they don't self-identify as sexist, and that their friends don't think they're sexist. I want to know that the really, deeply understand the problem and the subsequent feedback, and what is going to change moving forward. They're going to ask the producer to remove the video, but are they going to stop threatening people on twitter?
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#7I hope they issued a personal one to @shanley as well. Their argumentation was way worse than the video.
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#8tl;dr version - We didn't mean to offend women. We love women. We even know some women and sleep with them and stuff. (We aren't those kind of geeks who can't talk to girls.)
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#9They still seem to be missing the point. The worst part wasn't the video, which is a forgivable offense.
The fact that the founders openly threatened the woman who was complaining and their contract with her company as a means of shutting her up is egregious, and their only reference to that behavior in their apology is this:
We could have handled it better.Re: Apology from Geeklist
#10I expected at least a reference to them taking down one of their repos[1] to hide further criticism, but found none.