After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him

Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by corty on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:33PM (#28101581)

But that works in all directions. There are many kinds of people who cannot work together. I for one, despise the "lets all be friends and never say a bad word" crowd. They drive me mad and drive me to leave. I'd rather have a frank exchange of views with someone.

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Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by paulryanrogers on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:41PM (#28101641)

In the toxic positivity sense, "please don't be vulgar", or something else?

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Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by corty on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:56PM (#28101737)

There are many variants. "Don't be vulgar", but also "don't criticize" or "invent something positive to say, only then can you criticize". "Be lavish in your (insencere) praise".

All this leads to a (despicable to me) culture of always-smiling emotional liars. If something I did is shit, say "it is shit". Make an unhappy face. Don't smile, praise my performance when cooking coffee and on the side mention that my last project "made some people somewhat happy".

But I'm not sure if that answered your question, I didn't fully understand it.

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