No surprise here, but it does remind me of a story ...
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Was that wrong? should I not have done that?
… Group Vice President for Marketing Daniel Blake and Bud Light Marketing Vice President Alissa Heinerscheid are “gone gone,” according to obtained text messages with a current regional head of marketing. The [Dailly] Caller is granting anonymity to the source to discuss legally fraught internal company policy.
“To my understanding if we publicly announced the word ‘fire’ it opens up the potential for them to sue us. Thats why we said leave of absence,” the source said in a text message obtained by the Caller.
And here’s the unfortunate part, to my mind:
“To be fair- Daniel Blake was actually awesome. I think he was just caught in cross fire. But also he did hire her… so that’s a fault,” the source continued.
Which reminds me of what a friend of mine, the head trader of a major Wall Street firm told me way back in the early 90s:
“We used to hire kids off the streets of Brooklyn”, he told me. “A lot of them turned out great, and we just canned the schnooks, end of story. But things began changing in the 80s, when new bosses came in, and if one of Brooklyn kids really screwed up, the higher-ups would look around and ask, ‘who the hell hired that guy?’ and then go after whoever had done it.
“So the team started hiring only MBAs from top schools — if they fucked up, the only feedback we got from the top floor was ‘geeze, (he used a coarser expression) Harvard’s just not turning ‘em out like they used to.’ They didn’t blame us.”
Sadly for poor Mr. Blake, the Harvard Defense is apparently no longer operative, and even hiring a Harvard/Wharton grad couldn’t protect him from being canned. Harvard’s just not turning them out like they used to.
Probably time to go back to looking for talent on the streets of Brooklyn; in fact, talent scouts should never have stopped looking there in the first place.