Fired Netflix executive sues, alleging pregnancy discrimination
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The title is technically true but most people would read this as a company executive-- a high-level employee. She is in fact an executive producer on a small Spanish language program. The article title sort of implies something like Reed Hastings/the board ousted chief communications officer Rachel Whetstone or something.
If the allegations are true it could simply be a single bad actor within a small unit of Netflix operating with limited oversight. Obviously, I don't have knowledge of Netflix internal policies but my guess is that they don't regularly do stupid , easily detectable shit like this to break the law. At least, I hope they don't regularly do this.
Female executives getting fired for pregnancy is not unusual in the entertainment industry. It's disgusting, but not unusual. And HR is always eager to help the scumbag boss cover it up.
A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization. Suitable or appropriate for a senior business executive[0]
The actual content was a bit of a surprise/different than my expectations based on the title but may not have been intentionally misleading. Consider this article title:
Top Manager fired from Facebook, alleges pregnancy discrimination
With the content being something like:
Alice, a top project manager in charge of development for an upcoming internal tool for Spanish speaking Facebook employees, alleges her termination was due to discrimination.
Again, pregnancy discrimination is dumb from a legal standpoint, a cultural/employee motivation standpoint, a PR standpoint and generally just bad practice all around. I am simply discussing how the article title seems to frame this as a higher level Netflix internal problem when it seems likely this is just one bad actor who had autonomy over a project and abused his authority.
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https://igormroz.com/documents/netflix_culture.pdf
In particular, this part rubbed many people off negatively:
We’re a team, not a family
We’re like a pro sports team,
not a kid’s recreational team
Coaches’ job at every level of Neflix:
to hire, develop and cut smartly,
so we have stars in every position
The Keeper Test Managers Use:
“Which of my people,
if they told me
they were leaving in two months
for a similar job at a peer company,
would I fight hard to keep at Netflix?
The other people should get a generous severance now,
so we can open a slot to try to find a star for that role> When I was initially hurt and I needed some time away, I just went into Patty and said, I to take a break. They don't want me to type. They don't want me sitting - all this kind of stuff. She's like OK. That's all she said - OK. Let me know when you're feeling better.
> I was out for weeks, and I kept checking in. Like, I'm thinking, they going to fire me. They're going to find somebody else. And I'd just send her a note saying, they still want me to rest. She'd write back, OK, hope you feel better.
> Six weeks, eight weeks, 10 weeks - I finally went to her and I said, you know, maybe we should formalize this. Maybe I need to go on short-term disability or something like that. And she goes, if that's want you want to do. I said, well, I'd love to come back. She goes, yeah, kiddo, I don't know. And I'm like, OK. And I knew it immediately. It's like, OK, they've already pivoted.
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
It really disturbs me that people chose a job for fame and money in those companies way before choosing an interesting project, or something that you can believe in.
A big part of the problem is that absent strict and attentive government regulation and enforcement of the law, crime does pay. We tell kids that crime doesn't pay, but that's only true when the government is on the ball.