Exceptions are not indicative of the rule. And especially when you compare Damore to someone rescinding their offer, which are nothing alike.

Do you think that the majority of people that had their reputations tarnished and lost their jobs were re-hired later in another place of equal or higher stature?

IOW, do you really think that Damore is the exception to the rule?

I think that the bar for "had their reputations tarnished" is far higher than "rescinding an accepted offer" which is the topic of this thread.

I additionally think that trying to compare someone rescinding an offer with Damore and co is irrelevant when the actions are nowhere near equal, and therefore the reactions would also not be anywhere near the same.

You are arguing a different thing, then.

The point that was being discussed was whether or not "bad reputations are hard to repair". GP argued that this is not the case and did use an example of someone who got a bad reputation and (to my understanding) has not managed to establish himself in a prestigious position as the one he had.

"Bad reputations are hard to repair" within the context of a comment thread talking about people renegging on their accepted offers, yes.

According to his Linkedin he's working at an undisclosed startup. Who knows what his compensation is like, but it's not as if going from Google to an early-stage startup is particularly uncommon.

I think the comment you're replying to was supposed to be a 'gotcha', I don't think an actual response was intended.

Shrug. I could be wrong, I'm terrible at these things sometimes.

It won't be a "gotcha" if you can provide a better example to support your argument that "reputations are easy to repair".

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