1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Chappelle

Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by lkey on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:33PM (#28901019)

The missing context in this article is that two trans employees were suspended for attending a zoom meeting they were linked to by a director. One of those employees had written a twitter thread critical of the special on their personal account.

The second thing to note is they fired an organizer of this protest claiming that they leaked how well this special did (broke even basically) just a couple days ago.

This is obviously going to have a chilling effect within the company no matter what the intent of the special or the executives was.

More broadly, Chappelle seems to have a lot of empathy for his trans friend, but the actual effect seems to have been a fresh supply of TERF ammunition for the next few weeks. The 'discourse' around this is pure poison, and he probably could have predicted this based on how the last special went.

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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by InvertedRhodium on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:39PM (#28901066)

> The missing context in this article is that two trans employees were suspended for attending a zoom meeting they were linked to by a director

Were they invited to the meeting, or did they just acquire a link? Just because I find your conference call number doesn't give me any inherent right to sit in on it.

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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by lkey on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:56PM (#28901182)

Can you imagine being suspended for simply entering the wrong call at the meeting's start?

I'd be extra-shocked if something like that happened at my workplace, which is similar in size to Netflix.

Regardless, since you asked, Netflix backpedalled and reinstated her in writing. https://twitter.com/RainofTerra/status/1448097310026747908

Speaking for myself, when a director who is also attending a meeting sends me a zoom link, that's an invitation to attend.

Edit: More context, it was just a friggin stream: https://twitter.com/RainofTerra/status/1449667391865044994

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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by arthur5005 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:55PM (#28901821)

The person suspended (and then reinstated) intentionally crashed the meeting, and the person let go, leaked the amount paid to David for the special, which is the #1 no no at Netflix, given their business works primarily on information asymmetry. It’s the one thing you definitely shouldn’t do at Netflix, and they knew that.

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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by lkey on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:29PM (#28913175)

s/intentionally crashed the meeting/clicked on a streaming link sent to them by a director that was attended by 1000s of people/

If you want to back up your claim of 'crashing', please cite something other than Netflix PR's quote to journalists before the reinstatement letter.

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