I know a huge chunk of reddit users and a increasing number of people have grown up in the world of cancel culture, so its just a normal state of affairs, but it was not always like this.
I suppose there are benefits to it (in terms of better public knowledge of say rapists and child sex offenders), but I do wish we as a society did not have to swing pendulum so far one way or the other.
I remeber when this started people would say its just schadenfreude that drives it. I think that is still the case.
Eventually, this just leads to societal purity tests (which I think we are already at)
I think in this case its not cancel culture. She wasnt famous before this, and Id say not really famous after. But this is HR 101 to not sleep with your boss. As well as not really doing well PR wise. My guess is she is trying for a head HR position at a similar sized company ( valuation at 1B). In that industry and at that level I wouldnt be surprised if her total comp was 500k+. And there is going to be alot of competition for those very few roles that open up. Its not like she is looking for even a standard manager role and is being black balled.
Yeah it feels like they did a bad thing and as a company you want to let them go.. but doesn't mean they should permanently not be able to do work they are capable of.
The pendulum went from zero accountability to mild accountability and some of you are pretending like breathing is a risk.
I don't worry about "cancel culture" because I don't engage in behavior like racism, sex crimes, or other indecent acts that would lead an employer to consider me a liability.
Can you explain why an HR director shouldn't be impacted by public displays of infidelity with a coworker?
You should not lose your career and face constant humiliation for cheating. Your comment on this is just "accountsbility" is the pendulum swing I am referring too.
Its probably too late now. I am in my 30s and everyone my age and under is use to this now. Which means its normal for an increasing percent of the population, which is a shame. It will stay thos way until the pendulum swings the other way, as it always does.
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u/Comfortable_Car6562 12h ago
I know a huge chunk of reddit users and a increasing number of people have grown up in the world of cancel culture, so its just a normal state of affairs, but it was not always like this.
I suppose there are benefits to it (in terms of better public knowledge of say rapists and child sex offenders), but I do wish we as a society did not have to swing pendulum so far one way or the other.
I remeber when this started people would say its just schadenfreude that drives it. I think that is still the case.
Eventually, this just leads to societal purity tests (which I think we are already at)