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The issue becomes one of consistency, according to Moran. If two employees of the same firm did the same thing, but one was fired and one wasn’t, questions of fairness arise. For instance, was the person fired a woman or person of color? Was he or she a C-suite executive or an administrative assistant? … [Read more...] about Can you fire an employee who was a U.S. Capitol rioter? In a word, yes

There was little fresh insight from the President, but it was a defining moment for the site that bills itself as “the front page of the Internet.” What started out as a single collection of user-submitted links created by two University of Virginia undergrads in three weeks has spawned thousands of sub-communities (or subreddits, in the site’s parlance), each with its own topic of obsession–from corgis to college football. Each subreddit is combination of links out to other sites and text fields for original reader content. … [Read more...] about IAmA Community-Focused Innovator: The Secret To Reddit’s Success

The Fellows program isn’t the site’s only engine for expansion. BuzzFeed just hired a food editor, and they’re starting a Los Angeles office with longtime entertainment journalists Kate Aurthur and Richard Rushfield. The California outpost will be “a new exciting cultural experiment,” says Peretti. Aurthur and Rushfield will be able to create their own workplace environment that’s not necessarily a carbon copy of BuzzFeed’s New York HQ, because it will feed off the particular energy of L.A. “We’re not in a bubble in an office park, we didn’t invent [our workplace culture] out of whole cloth,” Peretti explains. “We’re a part of what’s out there in the world, and that gives us energy and feeds us.” As long as that culture keeps providing the audience with unintentionally obscene GIFs of Jill Biden, BuzzFeed’s web dominance should continue apace. … [Read more...] about 19 Photos Of BuzzFeed’s Offices And 4 Things That Drive BuzzFeed’s Culture Of Win

Last summer, I was at a board meeting and a member from New York was talking about how much he loved surfing, and asked me if I surfed. A week later I was with a friend in Boulder and surfing came up again. I live in one of the world’s best surf spots and my answer was always “No, I don’t surf.” Frustrated at my own answer, I got in the water the next weekend, got up on my second wave (with a push), and have been surfing every possible day since. … [Read more...] about Learning To Brave The Big Waves Of Innovation

Feigning a lack of awareness, in some situations, is perfectly harmless: sarcasm, for instance, or professional acting. It’s fine to pretend not to know certain letters of the alphabet and give one’s toddler nephew a little ego boost. When a friend is clearly delighted to share some juicy nugget of gossip that’s actually more of an open secret, it’s only polite to pretend to be surprised. … [Read more...] about The dire consequences of Republicans ‘just asking questions’ about whatever doesn’t go their way