[The] moderator starts to rejoice the lack of women in the room. “The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy” he says. “What are you actually doing here?” he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room.
...[He] finishes of by asking all (men) in the room to promise him that they will go home and say, “shut up bitch!”.
Goodness only knows why Dell hired him as their corporate voice. Shocking.
At a corporate event. I know PR is boring and stuff, but your fillers at corporate events represents you, the host of the event, in the general public. The fact that Dell didn't immediately apologize shows that they were either quite okay with it or didn't give the issue much thought.
Should someone lose their job over this? Sure. Maybe even a few someones. /Someone/ knew who this guy is and hired him.
Should the whole of Dell be cast as misogynist for hiring someone that I bet Micheal Dell couldn't name if you asked him this morning? I don't think so.
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From what I can tell, Dell hired a known, misogynistic and offensive comedian called Mads Christensen to work as the event's moderator:
http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male...
Taken from the blog post:
[The] moderator starts to rejoice the lack of women in the room. “The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy” he says. “What are you actually doing here?” he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room.
...[He] finishes of by asking all (men) in the room to promise him that they will go home and say, “shut up bitch!”.
Goodness only knows why Dell hired him as their corporate voice. Shocking.
He wasn't a "corporate voice", he was a filler between speakers.
At a corporate event. I know PR is boring and stuff, but your fillers at corporate events represents you, the host of the event, in the general public. The fact that Dell didn't immediately apologize shows that they were either quite okay with it or didn't give the issue much thought.
Known in Denmark.
This guy is not world famous.
Should someone lose their job over this? Sure. Maybe even a few someones. /Someone/ knew who this guy is and hired him.
Should the whole of Dell be cast as misogynist for hiring someone that I bet Micheal Dell couldn't name if you asked him this morning? I don't think so.