What I find very dysfunctional is that rarely anything ever happens to the ones doing the shaming.
They are most toxic to an organisation's culture in the long run.
It is a failure of management that people fuelling the outrage cycles via public shaming, virtue signalling and grandstanding feel empowered to exercise mob justice.
Are you saying that the entire concept of shame should be disregarded? On the other hand, might he be guilty of something? Of creating a hostile workplace, of destroying his own credibility with regard to performance reviews and interviewing, or at least, at Google, supporting his reasoning with bad science? Even outside of his employment environment, there's something to be said about his skills as a scientist as they are illustrated by the essay, about whether he was a false positive that slipped through GOOG's hiring filters.
> about whether he was a false positive that slipped through GOOG's hiring filters.
IIRC he mentioned in an interview that he got the highest performance rating and a promotion last cycle.
There is a middle ground to shaming. People can overshame and instances of overshaming have been very toxic. For example, calling for violence or for a coworker to be fired. These instances are never punished.
They are most toxic to an organisation's culture in the long run.
It is a failure of management that people fuelling the outrage cycles via public shaming, virtue signalling and grandstanding feel empowered to exercise mob justice.