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Re:Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive,... by bfg on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:06AM (#10644740)
You hold CEOs to a different standard because they are the public face of an organization; their personal brand impacts the brand of the company. That's not elitism, that's common sense. If a common employee holds some unpopular opinion, why should anyone care? But if the CEO does, it damages the company, and the company should care about that.
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Re:Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive,... by Frondo on Sunday November 29, 2015 @11:09AM (#10644943)
Well, and go one further: if a common employee does hold an unpopular opinion and they publicize it widely, think how long they'll last at the company anyway.

Take a totally fictional example, a product manager at Intel who, on the weekends, has been leading neo-nazi marches and getting on the news. The reporters ask him, "what do you do to pay for all these flags and banners and tattoos?" "Oh, I work at Intel during the week. I'm a product manager in the networking hardware division."

Think how many weekends they'd give out that interview answer before Intel let them go for whatever reason.

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