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Landing On Her Feet

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From ESPN:

FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco told ESPN.com on Tuesday that the company’s internal data showed that DraftKings employees won 0.3 percent of the money the company has awarded in its history.

I remember there being concern that Sacco’s life was permanently ruined due to her ill-fated Tweet.  Assuming this is the same Justine Sacco (and I can’t confirm that it is but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…), it seems she has rebounded nicely.  Which is probably what we ought to want.  My position at the time was that Sacco likely deserved to be fired — or at least disciplined — not because she was an Awful Evil Racist Monster (TM) but because she proved to be pretty bad at her job.  If you are charged with maintaining a social media presence that is favorable for your employer, Tweeting out a joke that can so easily be perceived as insensitive and racist would reasonably call into question her ability to do that.  I hope her employment at FanDuel means she has learned from the episode and positioned herself for a successful career.  That would seem to be the ideal outcome: she received sufficient consequence to necessitate positive change while receiving an opportunity to recover.


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