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Apple employee gets fired after 2,000 members of staff complain about his women are full of sh t remarks in Facebook expose book he wrote in 2016
Apple confirmed Wednesday that Antonio García Martínez is no longer with the company, saying it is committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming workplace
García Martínez joined Apple in April as a product engineer in its ad business
A group of 2,000 Apple employees signed a petition Wednesday demanding an investigation into the decision to hire him
The group took issue with comments made in his 2016 tell-all book Chaos Monkeys which they deemed sexist and racist
Apple employee who called women weak and full of shit in his book loses job
The book which was published in 2016 had some absolutely undignified comments on women that angered the other employees.
Ankita Chakravarti | May 13, 2021 | Updated 14:13 IST
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Apple employee Antonio Garcia Martinez, who was hired recently by the company, has been removed from his job.
Martinez is an ex-Facebook product manager and the author of a book called Chaos Monkeys.
The book which was published in 2016 had some absolutely undignified comments on women that angered the other employees.
Apple employee Antonio Garcia Martinez, who was hired recently by the company, has been removed from his job. Martinez is an ex-Facebook product manager and the author of a book called Chaos Monkeys. The book which was published in 2016 had some absolutely undignified comments on women that angered the other employees, who then a filed a petition regarding his hiring. Martinez had called women soft and
Apple has cut ties with a controversial new hire after internal pushback from employees over comments the ads engineer made in his book, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to multiple outlets.
Apple employees circulated a petition Wednesday demanding an investigation into the hiring of Antonio García Martínez despite his “overly racist and sexist remarks” about former colleagues in his 2016 book, “Chaos Monkeys.”
García Martínez has left the company after a few weeks in the new job, an Apple spokesperson said in a statement to Bloomberg News.
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“At Apple, we have always strived to create an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted,” an Apple spokesman told Bloomberg. “Behavior that demeans or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here.”
Apple fires misogynistic advertising manager
Antonio García Martínez is fired within days of his hiring, after more than 2,000 employees sign a petition objecting to his published statements.
By
Anders Lundberg
| 6 hours ago
Apple has fired advertising manager Antonio García Martínez, just days after he joined the company and hours after an internal petition called for his removal, The Verge reports.
García Martínez, who worked as a product manager at Facebook between 2011 and 2013, is the author of the book
Chaos Monkeys. The book, which is available on Apple s Book Store here, contains a large number of contentious passages widely denounced for misogyny and racism.