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Netflix celebrates National Coming Out Day by releasing statement defending Dave Chappelle & suspend trans employee who spoke out against the special
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All depends on what they use for meeting software, honestly. I work at Google and I'm 99% sure any employee with the right link could attend whatever meeting they wanted. If there's a password, that's usually trivial to get if you know someone that will be there. We also livestream some of our bigger calls as a simulcast, but presenters can't see who's watching those so, in my case, it would need to be the former scenario to even know Terra and the other two employees were there. If none of them said anything, there were probably moderators that knew to look for them (or others). Otherwise the normal attendees would have to know EVERYONE that should and shouldn't be there. Which I find nearly impossible to believe is the case.
Sure, but this is my point.
Either there's no real system to enforce limited attendance, which would suggest it's not considered an especially important issue or the kind of breach that would usually result in possibly losing your job, or there's a strict filtering policy — even zoom gives you the option to have a person serve as a kind of security who has to manually allow each user in — and they still allowed people in that they shouldn't have, presumably with the intention of creating a breach to then punish. Either it's such a non-issue that they don't do anything to preserve the integrity of the meeting, but they're going to pretend that it is now so they can use it as an excuse. Or they do normally enforce security and deliberately didn't so that they could use it as an excuse. Either way, it's absurdly transparent.
It's not like it was some kind of in person event where they barged past security or made a spectacle. With 500 people attending a chat room or call, how do you even notice three random people unless you are explicitly looking for a reason to go after those particular employees?
You're overthinking it. There's a level of "trust" that large corporations have of their employees (talking office workers here). It's usually extremely easy to violate that trust, but people don't do it because they could lose their jobs. As to how they knew they attended? Could be an automatic software thing, or a meeting organizer scanned through the attendees list. In any case, we don't really know if them attending the meeting is the true reason for the suspension, but also I can definitely understand the company's perspective on why they had to in this case. Hopefully employees will still get a chance to voice their concerns about the special and other situations in the future.
Yeah, as if they would straight up say they fired her for the Twitter thread critical of them.
Ah, yes...suspending an employee for...*checks notes*...attending a virtual meeting with 500 people in it. That's a new one, Netflix.
The Fetishism around some corporations is wack and unhealthy.
"Sarandos also said that Chappelle's last special, Sticks & Stones, is Netflix's "most watched, stickiest, and most award winning stand-up special to date."
This tells you all you need to know. They don't care about people, they care about what people watch.
This tells you all you need to know. They don't care about people, they care about what people watch.
Making both trans and transphobic content.
Truly the shining example of corporate egalitarianism.
The pearl clutching at those meddling LBTQIA+ folks criticising their cash cow 🤡 Really transparent of Netflix higher ups in where their priorities lie.
Hey it works on some, just look at the several posters here giving Netflix the benefit of the doubt about that for no reason at all.
It will never not be dumb how he's focused on anti trans/TERF jokes. Like you said a million other things and this is what he's using to define himself right now
Good to see. Absolutely insane that we're even here in the first place, but good to see.
Let's just hope people don't forget that at the end of the day, Netflix's leadership showed who they really were.
It was an ONLINE meeting?!
Fucking loooooooooooooooooooool
Good to see. Also, no shit, Netflix.
Fucking loooooooooooooooooooool
Good to see. Also, no shit, Netflix.
OK sure, then explain all the rainbow themed products during Pride Month. /s
Also there was a nanonsecond-long lesbian kiss in Star Wars, so homophobia is over.
A fucking >500-person Zoom meeting, at that. As if a single person, who likely wouldn't even have privileges to speak, would ruin the whole company for sitting in on an earnings discussion. It's insane.
Suspending an employee for joining a 500 person meeting cause they sensed "ill intent"
I think Netflix is the real snowflake here.
Seriously. Did an AI handle this situation?
Was thinking about re-subscribing but not anymore.
It's not an earnings discussion, it's a 2-day conference for the leadership to review strategy and for the board to get more unfiltered information. It makes complete sense that they don't want every employee in attendance. At any rate, suspending someone for "attending a meeting" would be pretty stupid. In my line of work, I've joined meetings at my boss's invitation only to be scolded by their boss and told to leave but that was always the end of it
I don't understand it. Like not one iota. At the same time I also don't understand people being surprised about the things corporations do either. It's like yeah be outraged all you want, but people always act surprised.
Can you believe this mega corporation is doing (insert shitty thing here that makes piles of money) this?!
Why yes, yes I do. And they will continue doing that until it stops.
Lmao incredible.
I can't believe Shinra said "Gay rights" right there on their official page. They really do care!
Netflix and Chappelle, Spotify and Rogan. these techbros love their 'uncancellable' problematic balds
It's critical that netflix maintain its corporate integrity and stand by the artists who speak their truth on the platform... except when the Saudi regime asks them to pull episodes that are critical of it, that's no problem at all, consider it done
Honestly, fuck Hastings, Sarandos, Chapelle, Netflix.. the lot of them.
Honestly, fuck Hastings, Sarandos, Chapelle, Netflix.. the lot of them.
I actually know Terra (the woman who got suspended) IRL, lol. She's great and obviously didn't deserve to get suspended. I don't have any doubts that she'd be able to find a job elsewhere and survive, she seems to be a very talented person, but this is still incredibly shitty of Netflix. Also, it's surreal seeing some random person I know have a topic be made about her here.
I highly encourage everyone to read her thread that was posted earlier. It's powerful.
I highly encourage everyone to read her thread that was posted earlier. It's powerful.
Ding ding ding.
Some director or other senior manager 2+ steps above her used the meeting thing as an excuse to try and fire her because they were displeased. Other senior management or someone even higher stepped in to force a reversal.
Whole thing reeks of someone in management flexing their ability to fire people for whatever bullshit they make up.
And now this is when I wonder if we know each other since I'm also an IRL friend of Terra's. >.>
Probably not, I've only actually met her once or twice and we don't know each other very well. It's likely we have mutual friends as we're both probably close friends with bay area trans people working in tech/interesting in gaming and I find people in that space tend to intermingle a decent amount, though.