by Tyler Durden
Saturday, May 15, 2021 - 04:10 PM
A former Facebook project manager, author, and journalist who uprooted his life in Washington to take a job with Apple is
livid, after a woke mob of employees circulated a petition demanding his ouster over controversial statements from a book he wrote five years ago.
The petition took aim at Cuban-American Antonio García Martínez over his book,
Chaos Monkeys (dedicated to all my enemies ) - an autobiography which traces his journey from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Martínez has described the book as total Hunter S. Thompson/Gonzo mode.
According to woke Apple employees,
The Author of the Book Chaos Monkeys has commented about his very public firing at Apple on Twitter
On Monday we had learned that Apple hired the author of the book Chaos Monkeys which was a NY Times Bestseller. He had been with Apple for over two months and his professional title at Apple was noted as Product Engineering, Ads Platform. On Wednesday we posted a report titled In a rare move, Apple Employees circulate a Petition demanding an investigation into the company s misogynistic new hire. On Thursday, we posted a report title Apple Backtracks and Sends their recent Ad Engineer Hire Mr. Martinez Packing after receiving an angry Employee Petition. We ended the report noting: Whether we ll hear from Mr. Martinez on this matter in the future is unknown at this time. 24 hours later, Mr. Martinez took to Twitter.
In addition to the sexist statements, he also came under fire when he compared a co-worker named Chander to a rickshaw driver. In his ill-fitting polyester polo shirts with color palettes stolen from the late seventies, he reminded me of the bored auto-rickshaw drivers in front of Connaught Place, Delhi, who d overcharge you a hundred rupees to go down the street to Paharganj, he wrote.
The hiring of Martínez called into question the system of inclusion at Apple, including hiring panels, background checks, and processes to ensure the existing culture of inclusion is strong enough to withstand individuals who don t share our inclusive values, the petition stated.