Apple employee fired for calling women shit in his book, claims Apple knew about his writings
Martinez was removed from his job after 2000 Apple employees signed a petition demanding an investigation into his inclusion.
Ankita Chakravarti | May 15, 2021 | Updated 10:11 IST
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Former Apple employee Antonio Garcia Martinez, who was fired within two months of his hiring, has finally broken his silence.
Martinez was removed from his job after 2000 Apple employees signed a petition demanding an investigation into his inclusion.
He was accused of calling women soft and full of shit in his book Chaos Monkey, which is an autobiography.
Former Apple employee Antonio Garcia Martinez, who was fired within two months of his hiring, has finally broken his silence. Martinez was removed from his job after 2000 Apple employees signed a petition demanding an investigation into his inclusion. He was accused of calling women soft and full of shit in his book Chaos Monkey,
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I’m biased, because I know Antonio Garcia-Martinez and something like the same thing once happened to me, but the decision by Apple to bend to a posse of internal complainers and fire him over a passage in a five-year-old book is ridiculous hypocrisy. Hypocrisy by the complainers, and defamatory cowardice by the bosses about right for the Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style era of timorous conformity and duncecap monoculture the woke mobs at these places are trying to build as their new Jerusalem.