by Tyler Durden
Saturday, May 15, 2021 - 04:10 PM
A former Facebook project manager, author, and journalist who uprooted his life in Washington to take a job with Apple is
livid, after a woke mob of employees circulated a petition demanding his ouster over controversial statements from a book he wrote five years ago.
The petition took aim at Cuban-American Antonio García Martínez over his book,
Chaos Monkeys (dedicated to all my enemies ) - an autobiography which traces his journey from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Martínez has described the book as total Hunter S. Thompson/Gonzo mode.
According to woke Apple employees,
Apple hires, then fires controversial ex-Facebook employee
Antonio García Martínez is no longer with Apple after a petition called this hiring into question.
body>After a petition circulated inside Apple yesterday calling for an investigation into the recent hiring of Antonio García Martínez as an ad engineer, Apple responded in a decisive way: Martínez no longer works there.
The backlash was mainly centered around Martínez s Silicon Valley tell-all book, Chaos Monkey, which was published in 2016. The book, which Martínez describes as written in total Hunter S. Thompson/Gonzo mode, is an unfiltered sort of real take on what it is to go through the Silicon Valley roller coaster, as he described it in a Vox interview.
In a rare move, Apple Employees circulate a Petition demanding an investigation into the company s misogynistic new hire
On Monday Patently Apple posted a report titled Apple has hired the Ad Executive who wrote Chaos Monkeys, a one-time NY Times Bestseller. Today, the news has surfaced that Apple employees have circulated a petition demanding an investigation into the company s misogynistic new hire.
A group of Apple employees has written a petition asking for an investigation into the hiring of Antonio García Martínez a former Facebook product manager and author of the book Chaos Monkeys.
In the petition, the employees expressed concern about García Martínez’s views on women and people of color. His hiring “calls into question parts of our system of inclusion at Apple, including hiring panels, background checks, and our process to ensure our existing culture of inclusion is strong enough to withstand individuals who don’t share our inclusive value
In the petition, Apple employees expressed concern about the views Antonio García Martínez expressed in his book Chaos Monkeys. Martínez was a former Facebook product manager.