This might be the worst town hall speech I've even seen, and I've worked for some actual sinking ships.
Unbelievable that this can be considered acceptable at Microsoft.
With leadership like that, it seems this was inevitable.
Former Mixer employees details the racism & Toxicity while working at Mixer [Update: the offending manager is no longer employed at MS]
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This might be the worst town hall speech I've even seen, and I've worked for some actual sinking ships.
Unbelievable that this can be considered acceptable at Microsoft.
With leadership like that, it seems this was inevitable.
Even when you remove the context, it's such a shitty analogy to use in any business/official capacity.
Sounds like something you might expect to hear in fiction like GTA. But when you're witness to the sick reality that such satire is based on, it's time to start taking names.
I mean mixer shutting down didn't really have anything to do with this particular episode so I get that he feels that it's not the outcome he was looking for but it was likely to get shut down anyway. Now if the Manager gets fired is another thing but that's not going to happen during their conversation. It's likely to be reviewed by HR again
They yoinked the Mixer app from Xbox a few months prior to this, so it's likely they noticed the failing leadership there and that just compounds with the poor growth rate.
And yeah, every time I see this clip I just feel awful for every person in the room that had to sit through it.
The solution to resolving the racist practices inherit at Mixer is to shutter the entire platform and merge it with a goliath platform that propagates nationalism and poor moderation.
Smart move, Microsoft.
Smart move, Microsoft.
of course not, but it's not a good look comparatively. the coincidental line-up of the this issue with the Mixer announcement wouldn't have ever happened if HR had done its job in the first place ya know?
So nothing really happened ? Kinda expected more from this meeting.
HR did its job: protect the company at all costs. Fuck everyone else.
Let's be real: Phil ultimately answers to the same bosses this this HR department answers to. Even he can only go so far. I wish Milly gets some compensation for this BS.
He's on the same level as the EVP of HR and they both report directly into the CEO. In my experience this will likely lead to something happening but its effectiveness is entirely dependent on how committed Satya Nadella is to stamping out this kind of shit.
This whole situation is garbage and unsurprising as a black man who works in corporate racist America.
How you get that from the tweet generally curious?
Spencer is an EVP and sits at the high table. The only person he reports to at Microsoft is Satya Nadella.
Good luck convincing anyone here that Nadella has a high tolerance for racists.
High tolerance for racists or not, good luck to anyone expecting Microsoft to admit they had a racist running things for years and their HR department found no wrongdoing.
Why would people even consider that a multimillion dollar deal between two giant companies could be thrown together in half a day? Of course Mixer going to Facebook was unrelated. I'd feel kind of bad for Facebook if they weren't Facebook, getting the resources of a company that was just revealed as a toxic cesspool.
I don't think the effort to get the specific person fired needs a new thread, no. It's still the same conversation.
It's also something that is doubtful to happen until Microsoft perform due process in investigating the claims - including probably interviewing this person for their version of events.
It's also something that is doubtful to happen until Microsoft perform due process in investigating the claims - including probably interviewing this person for their version of events.
well idk, since it's new news and it's not just milly denouncing her, there seems to be multiple cases and instances were it was reported and ignored by Microsoft themselves, that's why I said thread update or new thread. But I ain't making a new thread. I hate making threads.
I'll leave it up to Armadilo
Hmm I smell a Karen
Well she did double down on the racist remarks, plus apparently she sent an email to milly from a secondary email and then said she was hacked:
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easily.
As much shit that EA gets they treat people amazingly (for the most part, obviously gonna have some bad apples when you have that many people)
EA is only better now because people like "EAWife" spoke out about their incredibly abusive practices back in the day. If this toxic culture extends beyond Mixer and into Microsoft at large, hopefully more people will come forward to force changes.
Corporate culture tends to suppress real issues within the workplace. You're always asked to assume people's comments and actions are well-intended even when they're clearly not, and that to improve the company culture you should work on yourself to raise its overall level.
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have updated to show that she currently still works at Microsoft even after Mixer got shut down
Did I say otherwise ? I just expected more information on what kind of action they would take to prevent similar situations in the future.
That would be a bit pointless/empty platitude now till an internal investigation is done and internal correspondences have occurred.
weird, it quoted me instead of the actual poster that actually said that
Microsoft did dealings with USA borderguard regarding the internment camps. Managers on upper scale have a different mindset
I thought for sure that Shilpa Yadla was bad and maybe it was her, but I guess they've got someone else even somehow even more terrible in there. This is just pure rot, needs to be cleared.
In mechanical engineering we have similar terminology regarding for controls systems. It's mostly been changed to primary/secondary. Master/slave is completely inappropriate.
Unfortunately in corporations large enough, some amount of those people will always filter through. They'll pay lip service to the right ideas and principles with the right people, then act otherwise.
No I don't think it happened like that, i think it was pure coincidence that the accusation came out almost at the same time the announcement happened. Although the silence since the meeting leaves a lot to think about. I mean yes, Phil and Milly had a meeting, but at the end looked like nothing happened, Millys tweet after the meeting felt like the core issue wasn't addressed, and Phils tweet after that felt like PR, but that's just me, but then again seeing how after that, the whole #FireNataliaDomingo thing went, that it was reported multiple times all the way back to 2018 as seen from WesWilsons letter. Yea makes me think Milly wasn't pleased with the outcome and didn't have no other option than name her publicly.
The fact that she made him google it is like the chef's kiss of idiocy.