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Kristin Cabot: HR exec in viral Coldplay clip speaks of abuse, threats and trying to find a new job (www.bbc.com)

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The former tech executive says she was bombarded with abusive and threatening messages after being filmed with her boss on the 'kiss-cam'.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"I think as a woman, as women always do, I took the bulk of the abuse. People would say things like I was a 'gold-digger' or I 'slept my way to the top', which just couldn't be further from reality," she said.

I'm normally very willing to agree with this sentiment, but I think she's deliberately under thinking this. Yeah, he also did the bad thing. She was the HR director, though. There really isn't anything more hypocritical that you can do as the head of HR, and I think that's a big part of why people aren't letting her off the hook.

If I got caught going to random sites and downloading viruses while storing all of my passwords in plaintext, that would be a pretty major offence for an IT guy, but not as much for a quality control director. This isn't really any different.

Is it problematic that the CEO was involved? Absolutely. Should he have known better? Of course. Is one of his main duties to discourage other people from this exact behavior? No.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

Also, she's the HR director - she's the person employees are meant to come to about sexual abuse. That's a huge conflict of interest

An HR director can't have even the appearance of sexual impropriety. Their job is to protect the company by showing they were not negligent in preventing sexual abuse or a hostile work environment

Who the hell would hire her? You'd have to be insane... You'd have to defend her image in every single court case for her entire tenure