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by justanorherhack 893 days ago
It's actually the opposite imo. With polarizing events like some people will indeed dislike her greatly and judge her for it but others who agree with her position will rally behind her and go out of their way to hire her. As long as there are people in her camp, she has likely received an outcry of support and multiple interview requests with likely some leadership opportunities.
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My point above was that this is more of a social media story than anything.

I can't imagine any reasonable organization looking at this and thinking it's positive. I see an irresponsible, attention seeking social media addict with serious boundary issues - violating everything from more-or-less professional standards (again gray, perspective), to her employment agreement, to the law for clicks/likes and/or "dunking on"/"owning"/"calling out" her employer.

As I keep saying this is all very gray and a matter of perspective. Anyone in a hiring position has to look at this and think "when are we going to do something she arbitrarily takes issue with and puts US on blast with an illegally recorded conversation, stolen documents, etc"?

It's like cheating on your wife, marrying your mistress, and then her being surprised when you cheat on her. If she did it to a previous employer she'd do it to you.

>With polarizing events like some people will indeed dislike her greatly and judge her for it but others who agree with her position will rally behind her and go out of their way to hire her. As long as there are people in her camp, she has likely received an outcry of support and multiple interview requests with likely some leadership opportunities.

It's not going to help her much if everyone rallying behind her are /r/antiwork type people.

Yeah, at that point you'll just have several videos of everyone looking bad, instead of just one.

I truly do believe that if/when people like this finally get their way and have nothing left to rail against, they'll simply look inward to their own group for something to take issue with, and around they go.

Honestly ask yourself, would some of the more vocal activists truly be happy if their mission was suddenly accomplished? Or would they discover that their existence now feels empty, and that their entire modus operandi actually revolved around eliciting strong emotions from others?