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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great name for a Barbie and Mattel related comment.

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, clearly she did her research for that movie.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Would you expect anything less from esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie?

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

And from saying everyone does fraud like trump when it comes to property valuations

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Blacklisting people for exercising their first amendment rights is going to get you sued.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 31 points 11 months ago (11 children)

The first amendment prevents the government from restricting your speech. It doesn't say anything about other organizations.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Question (for anyone who knows the answer), lots of universities and other orgs get federal money. Could this make first amendment more applicable?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That depends if they’re state or private universities. Private universities, like businesses, create codes of conduct more restrictive than constitutional rights as part of agreement for admission. Willful violation of the code of conduct is grounds for dismissal.

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[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Happens all the time though, authorities don't give a shit

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Free speech doesn't apply to employees at work.

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[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

Don't stand up for what you believe in because corpos don't like it.

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who was driving the boat Kevin?

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Fuck Kevin and his stupid face

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't watch shark tank I have no idea who this guy is. And I don't think I am going to change my mind.

I feel very good about all these choices.

[–] wwaxen@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He got rich making shovelware "educational" games and then selling the company with a gross overevaluation. He's a conman through-and-through.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

He sounds terrible. I am going to stick with my don't know don't want to know on this one

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] exanime@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The gross evaluation part? Selling a turd as gold

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh man he’s gonna be pissed when he learns plebs know his name and own sharp objects

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

The things about stochastic terrorism is the person doing it is too much a coward to do it themselves.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna ask you some questions and we'll need you to assign either a happy face or a sad face in order to asses if you are burger king material.

First question

Palestine.?!

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago
[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago

Unlike the NAtional ZIonists who wore masks to assault them.

[–] svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The protestors should include this civil engagement on their resumes. Find employers that agree with their stance against genocide.

Any company that would go out of their way like this to exclude candidates who stand up for what they believe in and be on the right side of history is not a place that any of these protesters would want to work for anyway. I can’t imagine anyone besides the extreme far right wanting to work for such companies.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

The protestors should include this civil engagement on their resumes. Find employers that agree with their stance against genocide.

That's going to be hard when the government makes it illegal for companies that take federal money to boycott, divest, sanction, and now even criticize Israel. Just hiring someone with that on their resume could be a problem.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Things like this continue to show how people don't understand AI at all. Facial recognition does not work to this degree, it isn't a 1:1. The way employers would know is through police records.

You just need to look at all the false police arrests around facial recognition systems and the like to know that you can't get that level of fidelity.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 points 11 months ago

A: Yeah! How fucked up is that?

Kevin O'Leary: Oh, no, I was saying it's a good thing

A: ... What?

Kevin O'Leary: What?

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know. There’s plenty of evidence that trump consorted with known sex traffickers and he was elected president. It would seem like quite a specific search. If AI is going to background check us all, it’s likely that they will find dirt on everyone.

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

If my life has taught me anything, it's that the rules no longer apply to you when you're rich.

And if the last few months have taught me anything, it's that the greatest crime any American can commit is criticizing Israel about anything ever.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 points 11 months ago

Oh no, employees with empathy and morals… but how will we build our ever-collapsing shit box companies with those?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 7 points 11 months ago

Like Kevin knows jack shit.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You mean like AI identifies papers written by AI? Like the US Constitution?

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

To which i say, can't he drop dead already?

[–] Boinkage@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Good thing I don't care about Kevin O'Leary.

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