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Tough-talking Twitter diversity exec brought in to shake-up company's 'too nice' culture has driven 'snowflake' employees to TEARS
dm ^ | 8/17/2021 | griffith

Posted on 08/17/2021 10:30:58 AM PDT by RummyChick

A Twitter executive hired to shake up the tech firm's 'kind but stagnant' culture left staff in tears with his tough talk and meetings where they were encouraged to slate each other.

Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, 43, was accused of making workers feel 'psychologically unsafe' after blasting poor work, firing staffers he was unhappy with - and sending scathing criticism of them to their former bosses.

Davis, a top design executive with prior experience at Netflix, Yahoo! and PayPal, was hired by Twitter in 2019 as vice president of design, and has since been promoted.

He has spearheaded a number of product innovations, including audio tweets and prompts to encourage reading an article before sharing it.

A champion of workplace diversity and inclusion who often tweets about the topic, Davis was brought on to improve Twitter's diversity efforts as well as shake up the company culture.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 08/17/2021 10:30:58 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

What does “slate each other” mean?


2 posted on 08/17/2021 10:31:59 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

criticize


3 posted on 08/17/2021 10:32:42 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: ifinnegan

No clue, but it sounds like some woke BS.


4 posted on 08/17/2021 10:33:22 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RummyChick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk


5 posted on 08/17/2021 10:33:23 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Don't blame others for the road you're on. That's your own asphalt.)
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To: ifinnegan

insult (slang)


6 posted on 08/17/2021 10:33:33 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
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To: RummyChick

It doesn’t take much.


7 posted on 08/17/2021 10:34:38 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Contempt for truth is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilisation.)
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To: RummyChick

So would snowflake on snowflake attacks be White on White or should it still be red on red? Asking for a friend.


8 posted on 08/17/2021 10:34:38 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
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To: ifinnegan

I imagine it’s like cutting them into slabs (?)
Not a good morale boosting tactic imo. Maybe some employees need to be ‘slated’ but not by their coworkers in group meetings.
But it also sounds like some of these kids haven’t ever had to face honest criticism. Flattery isn’t real kindness.


9 posted on 08/17/2021 10:35:15 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ifinnegan

Hit each other in the heads with slabs of slate.


10 posted on 08/17/2021 10:35:16 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: RummyChick

I wonder if he did his best “You can act like a man” from the Godfather.


11 posted on 08/17/2021 10:35:59 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: RummyChick

“Oh, grow up!”


12 posted on 08/17/2021 10:36:45 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Michael Leroy Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: RummyChick

“Dantley Davis, 43, was accused of making workers feel ‘psychologically unsafe’...”

Bring in a half dozen Marine DI’s to shake up these precious flowers! Give me a f...... break!


13 posted on 08/17/2021 10:37:46 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Or the “Coffee is for closers” speech from Glengarry Glen Ross.


14 posted on 08/17/2021 10:38:04 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: RummyChick
His Twitter profile: Dantley Davis @dantley Chief Design Officer @twitter . Maker of good trouble. @usairforce family. 🐕 lover. 🚗 guy. I ✈️ things. #blacklivesmatter, #StopAsianHate, he/him.

Pronouns, blm, etc...This is the tough talk guy? Looks like group think is his thing.

15 posted on 08/17/2021 10:38:37 AM PDT by Troublemaker
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
So would snowflake on snowflake attacks be White on White or should it still be red on red? Asking for a friend.

Dantley Davis @dantley appears to be Blasian.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 10:38:43 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

What would a snowflake fight even look like? Teo weepy pajama wearing snowflakes quivering In thunderous sobs as they embrace each other in non gender-specific coddling manuevers while profusely apologizing?


17 posted on 08/17/2021 10:39:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bonemaker

this isnt going to end well...
and I am here to watch the fallout from the snowflakes


18 posted on 08/17/2021 10:39:17 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick
company's 'too nice' culture has driven 'snowflake' employees to TEARS

Awwwwww!

19 posted on 08/17/2021 10:39:36 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: RummyChick

This Dantley guy just sounds like a jack@ss and an @sshole who breaks things under the guise of “we are too nice” as a means to get white people out and create his diversity utopia.


20 posted on 08/17/2021 10:40:06 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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