Separates Apple from the controversial Antonio García Martinez ????

Update 13/05, 4 pm – Well, it won’t be too late: despite protests from many of its employees, Apple has simply decided to split from Antonio Garcia Martinez, who was hired at the beginning of the week to join the team responsible for advertising in the app. Store and Apple News.

« At Apple, we’ve always strived to create an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted. », The manufacturer announced to the American press. ” There is no place here for behavior that humiliates or discriminates against people This story highlights the flaws of Apple’s hiring process, but the process does involve a background check and multiple interviews.

Original article, 5/12 – From Recent employment with Antonio Garcia Martinez Doesn’t suit some Apple employees. Several of them have petitioned to demand an investigation into his nomination, reports said common. The problem isn’t that he’s a former Facebook employee – the open conflict between the two companies isn’t terribly drastic – but he made comments that were against Apple’s values.

The petitioners refer to dozens of excerpts from Anarchy monkeysAntonio García Martinez’s autobiography, released in 2016, made a lot of noise at the time, as it paints a sour picture of Silicon Valley and many of the statements were already controversial. Most of the women are in the Gulf region [la région de San Francisco, ndr] They are cute, frail, spoiled, and gullible despite their everyday claims, and generally disgusted., Writes, for example, a former Facebook product manager in the advertising industry.

In a 2016 article dedicated to this book, Gizmodo He indicated that Antonio Garcia Martinez was happy to describe the hoaxes that took place on Facebook and elsewhere, but that he was guilty of misconduct himself. The journalist noted that the fire broke out with homophobia and misogyny.

Antonio García Martinez’s controversial statements contradict Apple’s commitments to inclusion and diversity, the petitioners (number unknown) tell officials responsible for these issues. Employees are asking for an investigation to determine how these comments were ignored during the recruiting phase, along with measures to ensure that this does not happen again. They are not calling for the firing of Antonio García Martínez, but they are demanding that at the very least, he be deprived of power in making decisions.

Apple has not commented on the situation for now.

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