Apple Inc. parted methods with a outstanding advertising-technology govt weeks after hiring him, following complaints from some workers about passages in a memoir about his time in a previous job at Facebook Inc. that they deemed sexist and misogynistic.
Antonio García Martínez, who wrote the guide “Chaos Monkeys” about his expertise working at Facebook, is not with Apple, a spokesman stated late Wednesday. Apple didn’t disclose extra particulars about his departure.
“At Apple, we’ve got at all times strived to create an inclusive, welcoming office the place everyone seems to be revered and accepted,” an Apple spokesman said. “Behavior that demeans or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here.”
Mr. García Martínez didn’t instantly reply to a number of messages in search of remark late Wednesday. A LinkedIn web page for him listed him as working in “Product Engineering, Ads Platforms” at Apple, and says he began there final month.
Apple has largely averted the kind of public controversy amongst workers over problems with gender and race which have shaken different huge tech firms lately. Chief Executive Tim Cook has made it a pillar of his management on the firm to publicly champion range and equality.
Some Apple workers communicated their concern and anger Tuesday over Mr. García Martínez’s hiring on Slack messaging teams, one Apple worker stated. Several Apple workers complained publicly Wednesday in regards to the firm’s resolution to rent Mr. García Martínez, citing passages from his 2016 guide. A gaggle of workers circulated a letter to Apple senior govt Eddy Cue, who oversees web software program and companies, asking for an investigation into how Mr. García Martinez was employed, in response to one of many workers who signed it. Technology-news website the Verge reported on the letter earlier Wednesday.
The letter described as misogynistic statements in Mr. García Martínez’s guide that it stated run counter to Apple’s commitments to inclusion and variety, in response to a replica reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The letter highlighted the best way wherein various passages within the guide discuss with girls. In one, Mr. García Martínez wrote: “Most girls within the Bay Area are delicate and weak, cosseted and naive regardless of their claims of worldliness, and customarily stuffed with shit.”
In different passages, he referred to girls primarily based on his attraction to their our bodies and stated “most ladies” at Facebook and in the Bay Area didn’t know “how to dress.” In one other passage coping with fundraising, he stated an “fairness spherical is having to persuade 5 girls to do a sixsome with you,” he wrote.
This story has been revealed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content.
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