Whenever Kevin O’leary says anything, everything comes into context if you know how he got to be as rich as he is today.
The short version of the story is Kevin O’leary destroyed the entire educational game industry by buying everyone out and took on massive amount of debt, misrepresented his company’s financial condition so Mattel was left holding the bag when they acquired The Learning Company in what was called one of the worst acquisitions in history, was subsequently fired and almost took down Mattel with him, and he has been coasting on that money he took from Mattel ever since.
This has lead directly to the resignation of then Mattel CEO Jill Barad, the woman who made Barbie what it is today.
I find it incredibly ironic for him, of all people, to be talking about conducting employment background checks.
Great name for a Barbie and Mattel related comment.
I mean, clearly she did her research for that movie.
Would you expect anything less from esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie?
Fuck Kevin and his stupid face
I don’t watch shark tank I have no idea who this guy is. And I don’t think I am going to change my mind.
I feel very good about all these choices.
He got rich making shovelware “educational” games and then selling the company with a gross overevaluation. He’s a conman through-and-through.
He sounds terrible. I am going to stick with my don’t know don’t want to know on this one
how was that a con?
The gross evaluation part? Selling a turd as gold
isn’t that more of a ding on the other person not seeing through the BS?
If you get mugged and beaten, is it your fault for being weak?
You don’t even need to go that far. By his definition cons can’t exist because they depend on people not seeing through them.
If a company wouldn’t hire me for my beliefs chances are I don’t wanna work there anyway.
When these students/people in general are searching for somewhere to work, a company’s values should align with your own.
Amazon’s got this system for ratcheting up pressure on new hires and then rapidly firing everyone who misses a quota. As a result, they’ll often churn through an entire town’s workforce looking for people they haven’t hired and fired in rapid succession. This leads them to hire you, fire you, and then call you back up to see if they can get you to take your old job back… and then fire you again, and then call you back again, and then remember who you are and blacklist you but then need to fill quota and try to hire you again.
This is modern corporate AI. Six different Rube Goldberg Devices operating in a tangle, while individual workers have no clue whether they’ll be employed tomorrow.
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary still trying to distract from close association to FTX.
Also, he says that like future employers will care… and that all of us don’t have awful pictures out there that aren’t equally problematic.
And from saying everyone does fraud like trump when it comes to property valuations
Oh man he’s gonna be pissed when he learns plebs know his name and own sharp objects
The things about stochastic terrorism is the person doing it is too much a coward to do it themselves.
“Star” lol
Blacklisting people for exercising their first amendment rights is going to get you sued.
The first amendment prevents the government from restricting your speech. It doesn’t say anything about other organizations.
So you’re saying all of these people should go work for the government at some level? Great!
Question (for anyone who knows the answer), lots of universities and other orgs get federal money. Could this make first amendment more applicable?
Free speech doesn’t apply to employees at work.
