That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired
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Heh I'll probably get downvoted for saying this, but that's not brave, that's just plain irresponsible and stupid, she's literally trading more risk(and that risk concerns her family too) for no gain whatsoever (it costs nothing to delete a tweet, but the loss of her job could potentially cost her everything).
Be smarter and pick your battles wisely.
One thing about living in the 21st century is this constant understanding that you're tiny and these huge corporations can swing their balls and knock you out in the process. Being able to stick it to a billion-dollar corp, to the point of them threatening a lawsuit against you, is hilarious.
Now, I have a high-paying job and enough in savings to hold out for a few years with no income, so I'm not saying everyone should do this. But yeah, I would gladly go down if it meant I could flip the bird to these narcissistic assholes who think everyone in the world should bow down to them because they're rich.
I have to disagree with both of these points, but am not downvoting you.
Even if you lose your job, you are still eligible for COBRA. She, and her family, would not immediately lose their health insurance. It might cost them a bit out of pocket, but they're not going to die. Further, I doubt someone who works in social media, in the tech space, and with 50k followers on twitter these days would not be able to find their way into another job.
Second, "costs nothing to delete a tweet", while financially true, is not true across the board. People do not like to be censored, especially needlessly so.
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.
Good on the manager for supporting their employee and good on Figma for not giving into these scare tactics. Only a shame that the email from sales didn’t come with a “we don’t plan to give in over this or pressure our employee” as the email itself seems like undue pressure.
Hope Sprinkr is forced to use lesser tools because their VP decided to make an ass out of themselves over an innocuous tweet.
you are wrong. he is.
If someone says that "We in group X have it as bad as the Jews did in Nazi Germany", that doesn't really sound antisemitic to me. It is probably representative of a vast misunderstanding of history, but nothing about the statement says that she hates Jews.
Likewise, if you say that you think it is silly to be forced to label yourself with your pronouns, that isn't really transphobic in my mind. You can be perfectly okay with trans people, but not like the idea of being socially forcing 99.4% of the population to label themselves for the benefit of 0.6% of the population. Anyways, I didn't even realize pronoun labeling was about trans, I assumed it was more for non-binary people. "I may look like a male and present as a male, but don't you dare use 'he/him' on me, I am a 'they/them', because I am one of the few to contain multitudes"
I'll note that what Carano did was actually weaker - she just said that tribal hatred motivated the persecution of Jews and that tribal hatred was also leading to the persecution of Republicans. Her critics were more than happy to prove her correct.
She never claimed that Republicans were being treated as poorly as Jews in Nazi Germany, just that the ugly impulses that lead to one sort of persecution were also motivating another. The most-repugnant part of her cancellation is the implicit double-standard wherein progressives are claiming cultural ownership of Nazi/Holocaust metaphors - when they use them to describe Republicans it's fine, but when Republicans try to create analogies it's presumptively anti-Semitic since it denigrates the horrors of the Holocaust.
The author wrote a tweet that upset one of her employer's clients - there's nothing you can learn from this.
Also of note is the recent news that Sprinklr confidentially filed for IPO: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/customer-experience-startu...
If you were an industry analyst scrolling through Bill Gates' twitter, and saw that a year ago he said "Dell computers are a rip off", and it only got 600 likes and no other mentions, you might decide to write an article on that and re-bring light to it. Couldn't the same thing happen with this person? I don't know her, I don't work in her industry, so I'm just taking her word for it that she is a leading voice.