Misogynistic former employee shoots back at Apple
- Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former Apple ads engineer, was fired earlier this week after a series of reports of misogynistic comments.
- More than 2,000 employees signed a petition to have Martinez removed from the company.
- In a Tweet, Martinez claimed that Cupertino was fully aware of his books.
Apple recently hired Antonio Garcia Martínez (an ex-Facebook product manager and the author of the book “Chaos Monkeys”) earlier this week to join their advertising team. However, just hours after being hired by the company, Martinez was fired on the grounds of misogynistic comments that he made in the past. The comments were found in his book “Chaos Monkeys”, where he repeatedly degrades women.
From The Verge:
“We are deeply concerned about the recent hiring of Antonio García Martínez,” employees wrote. “His misogynistic statements in his autobiography — such as ‘Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit’ — directly oppose Apple’s commitment to Inclusion & Diversity.”
On Friday afternoon, Martinez spoke out against Apple in a series of Tweets, claiming that Apple actively tried to recruit him for the ads team. He also stated that Apple actively knew about his writings.
1. Apple actively recruited me for my role on the ads team, reaching out via a former colleague to convince me to join. Apple found my experience in the ads space, specifically around data and privacy, highly relevant to their efforts and persuaded me to leave my then role.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) May 14, 2021
More than 2,000 employees signed the petition to have Antonio Garcia Martínez fired from the company.
In a statement made earlier in the week, an Apple spokesperson said: “At Apple, we have always strived to create an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted. Behavior that demeans or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here.”
Shortly after, Martinez made a Tweet bragging that his books are now the #1, #2 and #4 best-selling books in Amazon’s ‘Computer & Technology Biographies’ section — and that his book is selling better than Steve Jobs' famous autobiography.
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