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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would imagine she knew full well trying to be the CEO of X/Twitter with Musk so heavily involved was going to be a losing venture as far as her own goals from the jump. But she took the job for the huge pay day and being able to have "CEO" in her list of previous positions on her resume.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

[taps microphone]

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Ahem.

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Yaccitey-Yacc, Don't Talk Back.

...

[leaves stage]

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess you could say she's the...

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...ex-CEO.

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[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 17 points 4 days ago

I wonder if she signed an NDA that prevents her from saying she was greeted on her last day by a manic sweaty wide-eyed Elon musk demanding he be referred to as mechahitler.

[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

In possible defense of this woman...

So initially, she's a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around... And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there's still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there's still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn't mean the struggle for woman's rights is over and that there's not some value to women taking top positions at large corporations.

And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things...

AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?

And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new AI change (which she almost certainly had nothing to do with and completely sucker punched her out of nowhere) completely undermined her.

So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she's moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She's a businesswoman.

Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.

Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.

Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn't kill us all), and so shouldn't woman be able to succeed?

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You talk too much like a bot.

[–] reliv3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get that we need to be wary of AI slop, I really do; but If speaking academic English with decent grammar becomes associated with talking "like a bot", then we are cooked.

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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Sounds like Ashley Barrett

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[–] GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured?

Getting into bed with the world's most famous bigot doesn't exactly bode well with regard to her moral character.

She's not a smol bean, she's a grown adult who made her own choices. As a businesswoman she should've spotted the glass cliff from a mile away, instead she gave in to greed and willingly walked over the edge because she thought she was the exception. Painting her as a modern-day suffragette seems a bit tone deaf.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now

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[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!

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[–] percent 8 points 4 days ago

Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wish we could've heard what they discussed so bad

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"So it never worked?"

"No."

"And been a team of people in Wokeistan this whole time?"

"Angola, but yes."

"And it's been saying this woke crap becuase you've been paying them to? ... Why?"

"Because you're a jackass Elon. And nobody likes you."

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[–] LarryDanieldson@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.

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