Whenever Kevin O’leary says anything, everything comes into context if you know how he got to be as rich as he is today.
The short version of the story is Kevin O’leary destroyed the entire educational game industry by buying everyone out and took on massive amount of debt, misrepresented his company’s financial condition so Mattel was left holding the bag when they acquired The Learning Company in what was called one of the worst acquisitions in history, was subsequently fired and almost took down Mattel with him, and he has been coasting on that money he took from Mattel ever since.
This has lead directly to the resignation of then Mattel CEO Jill Barad, the woman who made Barbie what it is today.
I find it incredibly ironic for him, of all people, to be talking about conducting employment background checks.
Great name for a Barbie and Mattel related comment.
Blacklisting people for exercising their first amendment rights is going to get you sued.
Happens all the time though, authorities don’t give a shit
There are 50 states, at least one of them will not look kindly on this. It is easy to tie your anti war protest to religious believes, a protected class.
Smart companies don’t fuck around with hiring. Anyone that has taken hiring training knows how thin the line is.
Your search history on a corporate network is logged.
Don’t stand up for what you believe in because corpos don’t like it.
I don’t watch shark tank I have no idea who this guy is. And I don’t think I am going to change my mind.
I feel very good about all these choices.
He got rich making shovelware “educational” games and then selling the company with a gross overevaluation. He’s a conman through-and-through.
He sounds terrible. I am going to stick with my don’t know don’t want to know on this one
I’m gonna ask you some questions and we’ll need you to assign either a happy face or a sad face in order to asses if you are burger king material.
First question
Palestine.?!
Fuck Kevin and his stupid face
Oh man he’s gonna be pissed when he learns plebs know his name and own sharp objects
Things like this continue to show how people don’t understand AI at all. Facial recognition does not work to this degree, it isn’t a 1:1. The way employers would know is through police records.
You just need to look at all the false police arrests around facial recognition systems and the like to know that you can’t get that level of fidelity.
Is this news tho?
“Star” lol
Good thing I don’t care about Kevin O’Leary.
If a company wouldn’t hire me for my beliefs chances are I don’t wanna work there anyway.
When these students/people in general are searching for somewhere to work, a company’s values should align with your own.
Amazon’s got this system for ratcheting up pressure on new hires and then rapidly firing everyone who misses a quota. As a result, they’ll often churn through an entire town’s workforce looking for people they haven’t hired and fired in rapid succession. This leads them to hire you, fire you, and then call you back up to see if they can get you to take your old job back… and then fire you again, and then call you back again, and then remember who you are and blacklist you but then need to fill quota and try to hire you again.
This is modern corporate AI. Six different Rube Goldberg Devices operating in a tangle, while individual workers have no clue whether they’ll be employed tomorrow.
