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Christina Hoff Summers doing a Reddit interview (AMA?) on Oct 4

hierophage

September 29, 2013

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https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/384146844609425408

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Title	Christina Hoff Summers doing a Reddit interview (AMA?) on Oct 4
Author	hierophage
Upvotes	35
Comments	27
Date	September 29, 2013 3:26 AM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1ncqe9/christina_hoff_summers_doing_a_reddit_interview/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/christina-hoff-summers-doing-a-reddit-interview.1162633 https://theredarchive.com/post/1162633

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Reddit doesn't give you the option to edit the title of a post, and discussion in the comments had already started. Tell me, Boss, how should I have rectified the error to your liking? Delete the whole thread (and the comments with it) and re-post it? That seems like a totally reasonable thing to do over a single misplaced letter.

And this is how you would handle such a minor mistake from an employee? Rather than point it out calmly, issue forth a barrage of verbal berating and insults? And then fire the employee for objecting to such treatment? Sounds like a company I'd be thrilled to work for.

I'm not sure what industry you work in, but that's not how you treat employees. If you were under me you'd never get promoted to a leadership position in the first place. Source: I'm actually CTO of my own company that I co-founded completely without the help of self-righteous authoritarian assholes such as yourself.

Edit: Misspelled a fucking word.

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No it doesnt. You should have deleted the thread with the whole 3 posts you had about and started over. You fix a fuck up instead of let it sit there and fester. You objected to it and let it fester. I dont care if you are Donald Trump. In the real world you take responsibility and fix the errors you make. You did neither.

You seem to be under the illusion that you can fuck up and act like a child about it. I dont know about you, but I would never work for a company like that. In fact thats the definition of a shitty company. If you had read my post. You would of been sat down and informed. When you were informed you acted like a 3 year old that didnt get his way. That may fly in your company but it sure as hell doesnt fly any where else buddy.

If you are a CTO. I feel bad for your subordinates and hopefully your company works out. Although chances are youre a CTO of a company that is small as shit which is why you havnt learned any of these lessons.

Edit: Please also tell me the name of your illustrious company so I know not to do business with you. I mean when I have an issue with your company and I submit a ticket. I wouldnt want to hear some whiny reason on why you dont want to deal with the ticket.

[–]hierophage[S] 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

There were more than 3 posts by the time the error was pointed out. I looked for a way to edit it immediately, at which point I discovered Reddit doesn't allow editing post titles. Darn. Then /u/ThinkProcessThenRage flew off the handle over my response, which included an apology and a light jab in response to the fact that he felt the need to curse while pointing out a minor mistake. I'm not sure how he comes off to you looking like he handled anything maturely whatsoever.

Another thing you do when you run a company: You respond to human error with the necessary degree called for as a function of the actual damage caused by the error. In this case, you think a small spelling mistake or the response I gave to a minor error being pointed out (which started with an acknowledgement and apology for the mistake) is grounds for firing someone. Pro tip: If you treat every error of this magnitude with this degree of response, you will soon be left without any employees at all, and good luck hiring anyone to replace them after they hear what a power-tripping megalomaniac the guy in charge is.

Similarly, if you treat every ticket that comes in as a show-stopper, the term "show-stopper" loses its meaning. Triage is a thing for a good reason. To that end, I've already put way too much effort into arguing over something so utterly devoid of consequence as a typo (my God look at it, still festering, the humanity, someone needs to lose their job!), so if you really need to get your jollies off calling people out anonymously, feel free to call me out on that.

I won't tell you the name of my company because I prefer to preserve my anonymity under this Reddit account. But I don't have anything to prove to you anyways. Suffice it to say we were founded in Dec 2011 as an LLC and just a few weeks ago completed the paperwork to become a Delaware S-Corp. But please, let me know what valuable business I'll be losing from you so I won't taint your holy ground with my incompetence.

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Sure there was buddy. Keep telling your self that. Your post was so important you couldnt fix it when you had 3 comments 2 of which were making fun of you for your mistake. In terms of your response it was laughable at best. Everything youve said you did here you didnt do. You didn't triage shit. So stop acting like you some how know what youre talking about. You didnt even respond you started crying and acting like a 3 year old and started downplaying it. That isnt triaging. Its acting like a 3 year old. Sorry, but you get treated like a 3 year old when you act like one in the real world. Keep thinking youre some how legitimate in the way you handled this, I am sure it will do wonders for your company that you probably founded off legal zoom if you handle tech problems the way you handled this.

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