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Apple separates from employee for being labeled as misogynist

2021-05-15T12:28:15.925Z


Thousands of Apple workers asked to investigate how the man who posted a misogynistic text was hired.


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(CNN Business) -

Apple fired a new employee after thousands of workers asked the company to investigate how it hired the man who had previously published an autobiography they said contained misogynistic statements.

Antonio García Martínez, former product manager for targeted advertising on Facebook and author of the autobiography "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" in 2016, joined Apple's ad team in April, according to his LinkedIn profile. .

García Martínez's book chronicles his life on the San Francisco Bay Area tech scene from 2010 to 2014. His career began as a quantitative strategist for Goldman Sachs before departing for Silicon Valley, where he eventually started a

startup

or technology endeavor. AdGrok, which he later sold to Twitter, and later worked as a product manager at Facebook between 2011 and 2013. In addition to his book, García Martínez has written for publications such as Wired.

On Monday, Business Insider noticed García Martínez's new position, quoted on his LinkedIn profile.

On Tuesday night, some Apple employees began circulating an internal "letter of concern," pointing to various passages from Garcia Martinez in "Chaos Monkeys" as problematic.

Apple employees argued, in a letter seen by CNN Business, that the passages oppose Apple's commitment to inclusion.

To illustrate his point, the letter, which was first seen and reported Wednesday by technology site The Verge, after it amassed more than 2,000 employee signatures - included excerpts from his writing.

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"Most of the women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, spoiled and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and they are generally full of shit," says a sentence in a passage from "Chaos Monkeys." She continued: 'They have their selfish feminism and they boast incessantly of their independence, but the reality is that, with the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they would become precisely the kind of useless baggage that you would trade for a box of shotgun shells or a gun. can of diesel '.

Another excerpt from the book cited in the letter detailed the initial funding of a

startup

and included this sentence: “To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after another, whereas an investment round [equity round] is having to convince five women to do a six with you.

“We are deeply dismayed by what this hire means to Apple's commitment to meeting its inclusion goals, as well as its real and immediate impact on those who work close to Mr. García Martínez.

It calls into question parts of our inclusiveness system at Apple, including hiring panels, background checks, and our process to ensure that our existing culture of inclusion is strong enough to resist people who do not share our inclusive values. " it reads on the letter.

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The letter also required the company to investigate how García Martínez's published views on women and people of color were ignored in the hiring process, as well as to develop a "clear plan of action to prevent this from happening again."

“Given Mr. García Martínez's record of posting openly racist and sexist comments about his former colleagues, we are concerned that his presence at Apple contributes to creating an unsafe work environment for our colleagues who are at risk of public and private harassment. ”The letter said.

García Martínez did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNN Business, although he did appear to see a direct message sent to his verified Twitter profile.

CNN Business (then known as CNN Money) reviewed "Chaos Monkeys" in June 2016, indicating at the time that the book reads like four years of "Medium posts by a despised man."

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While employees at tech companies like Google and Facebook have publicly raised issues of internal culture in recent years, this episode has been a rare display of dissent among Apple's workforce.

Numerous Apple employees took to Twitter on Wednesday to communicate openly about it, underscoring how important it was for the company to address the situation.

"The reason I accepted this letter rather than some other method is that while I trust Apple culture and leadership to do the right thing, this was still totally contradictory to that trust and those feelings," said Cher. , an Apple engineer who asked that her last name not be shared for privacy reasons, told CNN Business.

By Wednesday night, Apple confirmed to CNN Business that García Martínez no longer worked at Apple.

“At Apple, we have always strived to create an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted.

Behavior that degrades or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here, "said an Apple spokesman.

Source: cnnespanol

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