After a petition circulated inside Apple yesterday calling for “an investigation” into the current hiring of Antonio García Martínez as an advert engineer, Apple responded in a decisive approach: Martínez not works there.
The backlash was primarily centered round Martínez’s Silicon Valley tell-all e book, “Chaos Monkey,” which was revealed in 2016. The e book, which Martínez describes as written in “complete Hunter S. Thompson/Gonzo mode,” is an “unfiltered type of actual tackle what it’s to undergo the Silicon Valley curler coaster,” as he described it in a Vox interview.
However that’s not what some 2,000 Apple staff took subject with. Within the petition, Apple’s staff wrote that the hiring “calls into query elements of our system of inclusion at Apple, together with hiring panels, background checks, and our course of to make sure our current tradition of inclusion is powerful sufficient to face up to people who don’t share our inclusive values.” They pointed to a number of passages that waded into “misogynistic” waters, together with one which described Bay-area ladies as “gentle and weak, cosseted and naive regardless of their claims of worldliness.”
It didn’t take lengthy for Apple to behave. Hours after the petition circulated on-line, Apple reduce ties with Martínez and stated in an announcement, “Apple, we have now all the time strived to create an inclusive, welcoming office the place everyone seems to be revered and accepted. Conduct that demeans or discriminates in opposition to individuals for who they’re has no place right here.”
Martinez has responded with a Twitter thread blasting Apple for the transfer. He says the corporate “actively recruited” him for the place and that he upended his life to work in Cupertino. He additionally says Apple “was properly conscious” of his writings earlier than providing him the place and that he was questioned concerning the e book and his “actual skilled persona.” You possibly can learn the complete thread beneath.
Michael Simon has been masking Apple because the iPod was the iWalk. His obsession with expertise goes again to his first PC—the IBM Thinkpad with the lift-up keyboard for swapping out the drive. He is nonetheless ready for that to return again in type tbh.