[HN Gopher] Apple Procurement VP Departs Company After Vulgar Ti...
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Apple Procurement VP Departs Company After Vulgar TikTok Comment
Author : mikece
Score : 25 points
Date : 2022-09-29 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| bongoman37 wrote:
| Just some regular banter got him fired. You could clearly see he
| was goofing off. I hope he gets a huge payday out of it.
| gedy wrote:
| It's a quote from the movie 'Arthur'. Seems overreaction.
| EricE wrote:
| This has to be THE dumbest reason for running someone out of a
| company I have ever seen. God help us as a society. The real
| irony is the people screeching the loudest scoldy shit like this
| today were also those most likely screeching (correctly) about
| the scolds in the moral majority from the 80's. Except they are a
| thousand times worse today.
| andsoitis wrote:
| Why? Do you think many women would want to work for or with a
| VP who says "I fondle big-breasted women for a living"?
| malcolmgreaves wrote:
| Seems like someone at Apple wanted him gone for a long time and
| this was a perfect opportunity to use as a "reason" for being
| fired.
|
| If the powers that he wanted him to stay, then this would have
| been an Official Apology with The Most Sincere Words, a
| Commitment to Do Better, and then business as usual. IMO, what he
| said was immaterial and is distracting. I don't believe he was
| fired for saying this, even if he's a public leader that is
| always representing Apple.
| EricE wrote:
| >that is always representing Apple.
|
| That's what happens when you get companies more interested in
| politics and values vs. just putting out the best products they
| can. You start to eat your own.
| rasz wrote:
| I imagine this is how the board talk went, from The Hunt (2020)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sD5Xh88QZo
|
| last I heard, free speech still exists.
|
| Don't do that. Don't, don't First Amendment me, please. It's not
| a country. It's a business. A business, and there are optics.
|
| You fired Martin?
|
| No, he realized he had to take one for the team.
|
| The team?
|
| Yeah, the team. We have a team, our team.
|
| Do you recall a joke you had December 17 at 10:00 in the morning?
|
| I don't recall a joke I had last fucking Tuesday, Paul.
|
| Go... go ahead, Nicole.
|
| "I have rich cars, play golf and fondle big-breasted women, but I
| take weekends and major holidays off."
|
| Oh, I get it.
|
| Are you aware there's an active group of people out there who
| believe this is a real thing?
|
| Believe wh-what's a real thing?
|
| That you fondle big-breasted women.
|
| (laughing)
|
| Yeah, not funny.
|
| Yeah?
|
| Wh-Wh-Wh...
|
| What?
|
| Yeah, woke websites are all over it. They're going bananas.
| They're going berserk. Reddit. I mean, I don't know the names of
| them all.
|
| Jesus, I can't believe you used that word.
|
| "breasted"?
|
| No. "women". It's... charged.
|
| We have our best team at reputation management flooding...
| flooding the search engines in the hopes this thing doesn't go
| mainstream. I'm sorry. You got to go.
|
| Paul... it was just a joke. One joke.
|
| Wasn't funny.
|
| It wasn't real.
|
| I mean, I wish this didn't happen. I really do, but this idea is
| out there, and these people believe it, and they're not going
| away.
|
| What people?
|
| Sorry?
|
| What people believe I fondle big-breasted women? What fucking
| people?!
|
| Okay, this is gary4USA. He's got a podcast ...
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