After being lured to Apple and then promptly fired after an employee-driven petition over passages from his 2016 book Chaos Monkeys, Antonio Garcia Martinez commented briefly on the situation in an online chat.
Mikey Campbell for AppleInsider:
In a Twitter Spaces chat with tech journalists Kara Swisher and Casey Newton, Garcia Martinez characterized his axing as a “snap decision” on the part of Apple management. Citing a strict non-disclosure agreement, he offered no additional information regarding the move and claims to have been in the dark about the petition prior to a news blitz.
Garcia Martinez said the sentence was taken out of context, an explanation he gave Swisher when interviewed shortly after his book was published five years ago. Elaborating on the line on Thursday, the ad specialist and author said it was meant to cap off a joke made about his then-girlfriend.
The book was written in an over-the-top style invoking Hunter S. Thompson, Garcia Martinez explained, adding that the section in question was, in fact, a “paean” of praise about the unnamed woman… “In retrospect, I would not have written it that way,” Garcia Martinez said.
When pushed on the subject, he said, “Why shouldn’t Dr. Dre’s lyrics be different?”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s weak leadership shrank like violets from a vocal minority, defaming Garcia Martinez in the process.
They should try to grow a backbone for the next time this inevitably happens, given their bad choices in select current employees.
Antonio Garcia Martinez should be compensated for Apple’s ill-taken knee-jerk reaction to an inane petition.
MDN’s acerbic chaos dance monkey, is here to entertain you! Donations welcome via the MDN Contributions page – no to me, your chump chimp, but to the 800-pound alpha male gorillas that squish equally acerbic Dilger corrections of MDN – please support MDN so I can be your dancing chaos monkey forever!
Huh? English please. Maybe you should start by pointing on the doll where MDN hurt you?
Sure pulled your handle out of your @$$!
There’s only one thing you do with turds. Flush em.
Exactly. And Tim Cook is one very large turd.
Rubbish! That dubious honor belongs to @PPLcynic and his Fleshlight. Or perhaps that should be Flushlight.
The hit and run BANNED brown clown from San Diego is back. Changing his screen name three times targeting AC with his foul stench turd breath, guess he is bored with stalking Dingler LA Artist. Consistently nothing intelligent or constructive to say. Run along home now little man, your momma is crying…
You refer to people you obviously don’t like as “brown” or mock their connection to rainbows, and you expect us to believe that you aren’t racist or homophobic. Incredible!
Good Morning Commissioner of Politically Correct WOKE Police, not surprised you showed up.
Correct, I don’t have to like A-Holes stalking, mocking good people here and misrepresenting who they are and add NOTHING positive to this forum. I don’t expect you to believe anything and could not care less, is that simple enough for you?
Funny, you don’t have a problem with the racist comments and sexual harassment documented in videos of Biden the last 50 years. You don’t have a problem with Clinton sexually harassing dozens of women for three decades and then lying about Monica on national TV. You don’t have a problem with the most vile hate filled rap lyrics directed at gays, women, Jewish, whites, cops, religious people and others. Why is that Mr. Self Righteous?
ANSWER: Like all woke Leftists, you are a HYPOCRITE of the worst kind…
I used to be an Apple fan. Not any more. I have no brand loyalty. I only buy their products when it is my best option. In fact, when other options are possible, (like music and books) I try not to buy from Apple. Unfortunately, Apple is the best choice most times which is why I am still here, not from any kind of brand loyalty. Those days are gone. Apple has become a little too “Woke” for me. I would switch to Android but Google is even worse. I am keeping one eye on the progress of the “Linux Phones” and next time I will buy a Roku before an Apple TV. These are small steps on a very long journey away from Apple.
Most excellent post and I agree with you 100%.
The only reason I buy Apple products since 1982 is the same, best tools for the job.
Since Jobs passed, I have no choice but to hold my nose and look the other way as Tim Cook royally screws up the company with REGRESSIVE woke politics.favoring some customers over others.
Disgraceful!…
The real Apple died on October 6th, 2011
And actually got less douchy!
Exactly!
Apple today is all about obscene profits at any cost and no conscience taking advantage of slave labor with Cook leading while tied to the corporate LEASH…
MDN: “Apple’s weak leadership shrank like violets from a vocal minority, defaming Garcia Martinez in the process.”
Indeed!
It is absolutely sickening woke CEO Cook CAVED so easily and quickly to a noisy minority of INTOLERANT CANCEL CULTURE SNOWFLAKES that could not tolerate Antonio’s First Amendment rights!
Sue the bejesus out of Apple for a setup and illogical firing of a great professional and take EVERY SETTLEMENT PENNY out of Tim Cook’s salary and DEMAND a published public apology from Cook!!!… 😡
GeoB, I hope that someday you have a supervisor at work who writes a letter to the local paper calling you an incompetent sexist piece of shit, and then you get fired when you complain to management. Perhaps you might be less adamant about companies encouraging abusive “free speech” against its own employees.
Not interested in your tedious boring DEFLECTIONS. Come back when you can address my post DIRECTLY as an adult without the Liberal La-La_Land red herrings…
It’s not a red herring or a deflection. The man said that nearly half the people that he would be supervising as an Apple manager were stereotypical weak females who could not handle complex problems. He did not say it in some obscure private Facebook chat but in a best-selling book. The employees that he had insulted complained to management that it would be difficult working with him if that was really his attitude, and that his hiring made them question Apple’s commitment to equal treatment of its female employees.
When he was confronted with the problem, the best-selling author did not apologize or promise to reform, but basically doubled down on his “right” to call his co-workers names and question their competence without even having individually met them. His supporters, like MDN and you, seriously suggested that the women should be fired for filing their complaint. It was an untenable situation, and Apple took the least bad of the available alternatives… to lose one employee rather than potentially thousands and to get a little extra criticism from right-wing bullies who hate the company anyway.