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by wand3r 2637 days ago
When I read it I thought of this definition of executive:

A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization. Suitable or appropriate for a senior business executive[0]

The actual content was a bit of a surprise/different than my expectations based on the title but may not have been intentionally misleading. Consider this article title:

Top Manager fired from Facebook, alleges pregnancy discrimination

With the content being something like:

Alice, a top project manager in charge of development for an upcoming internal tool for Spanish speaking Facebook employees, alleges her termination was due to discrimination.

Again, pregnancy discrimination is dumb from a legal standpoint, a cultural/employee motivation standpoint, a PR standpoint and generally just bad practice all around. I am simply discussing how the article title seems to frame this as a higher level Netflix internal problem when it seems likely this is just one bad actor who had autonomy over a project and abused his authority.

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=Dictionary#dobs=executive