Whenever Kevin O’leary says anything, everything comes into context if you know how he got to be as rich as he is today.
The short version of the story is Kevin O’leary destroyed the entire educational game industry by buying everyone out and took on massive amount of debt, misrepresented his company’s financial condition so Mattel was left holding the bag when they acquired The Learning Company in what was called one of the worst acquisitions in history, was subsequently fired and almost took down Mattel with him, and he has been coasting on that money he took from Mattel ever since.
This has lead directly to the resignation of then Mattel CEO Jill Barad, the woman who made Barbie what it is today.
I find it incredibly ironic for him, of all people, to be talking about conducting employment background checks.
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary still trying to distract from close association to FTX.
Also, he says that like future employers will care… and that all of us don’t have awful pictures out there that aren’t equally problematic.
Blacklisting people for exercising their first amendment rights is going to get you sued.
The first amendment prevents the government from restricting your speech. It doesn’t say anything about other organizations.
Question (for anyone who knows the answer), lots of universities and other orgs get federal money. Could this make first amendment more applicable?
Exactly. Historically the left cancel culture has been in the private sector, which is protected. A company can fire you for saying racist shit, and you can be shunned by your community as they are individuals exercising their right to shun.
Right wing cancel culture exists in Congress and local governments, where they pass laws to silence teachers, make it illegal for trans people to exist, and send the national guard to beat up protesters.
This is an instance where a left wing group may experience the other side of the former.
Edit:
It seems I didn’t communicate my idea clearly and people think the exact opposite of what I meant. I meant left wing folks tend to cancel people through social means, like when no one wants to see a film with Kevin Spacey, whereas the right wing folks cancel people legally, like how you can’t be a communist in office or it’s illegal for an atheist to hold office in 7 states.
My last statement is how students having trouble getting a job is part of a “social canceling”.
I was super confused as to why I was getting down voted since I was trying to agree with what was being said and add to the conversation.
Brother did you know it’s currently a crime in the United States of America to be a government employee and identify openly as a communist?
There are 50 states, at least one of them will not look kindly on this. It is easy to tie your anti war protest to religious believes, a protected class.
Smart companies don’t fuck around with hiring. Anyone that has taken hiring training knows how thin the line is.
Your search history on a corporate network is logged.
Don’t stand up for what you believe in because corpos don’t like it.
If a company wouldn’t hire me for my beliefs chances are I don’t wanna work there anyway.
When these students/people in general are searching for somewhere to work, a company’s values should align with your own.
Amazon’s got this system for ratcheting up pressure on new hires and then rapidly firing everyone who misses a quota. As a result, they’ll often churn through an entire town’s workforce looking for people they haven’t hired and fired in rapid succession. This leads them to hire you, fire you, and then call you back up to see if they can get you to take your old job back… and then fire you again, and then call you back again, and then remember who you are and blacklist you but then need to fill quota and try to hire you again.
This is modern corporate AI. Six different Rube Goldberg Devices operating in a tangle, while individual workers have no clue whether they’ll be employed tomorrow.
