[asveikau]

Maybe he was asked to quit, perhaps rather forcefully. But he is going out in a classy way by saying his prior position was wrong.

The people on this thread calling this "cancel culture" could learn something from the frankness of the statement.

Keep in mind his company has military contracts. If the PR guy is on record opposing women in the military, even a long time ago... Not good.

[apsec112]

This culture of "never forget, no excuses, no forgiveness" is part of why the US has so many people in prison. Suppose someone commits an armed robbery. They should be arrested, certainly, for many reasons. But after they have been tried, punished, and served their sentence, should they be permanently exiled from society? Should they never be able to find employment for the rest of their life? No, because that doesn't help anyone and just creates more crime. This person is probably rich enough to retire, but most people are not - they need a job, or else they'll get evicted and wind up homeless. "You can never work again" isn't that much better than America's history of insanely vindictive prison sentences.

[asveikau]

I totally believe in forgiveness.

But I think you miss the point. This guy's entire job was promote the public image when, among other things, selling to the military. And he wasn't rank and file. He was near the top.

He won't have trouble finding a job that doesn't involve giving a bad image to a military contractor.

[apsec112]

He wasn't re-assigned, transferred, or demoted, even though Boeing is a big company with plenty of positions - he was fired. And many people are willing to fire even blue-collar workers and random small business managers:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...