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Earlier this year, we discussed how UC Davis detailed in a report that it spent $175k with a reputation management firm to try bury the 2011 pepper-spraying incident that has become so infamous, as well as to bolster the positive reputation and search results of its former Chancellor, Linda Katehi.
[...] A new report has been issued that makes it clear that the $175k with the one reputation management vendor was just the tip of the iceberg, and that Katehi's obsession with her own online reputation was far more serious than anyone had known. Indeed, her attempts to meddle in her own online search results started long before the 2011 pepper-spraying incident.
[...] While the initial reporting indicated a single vendor had been paid $175k on Katehi's request to try to control messaging about the school and herself through a barrage of good, but trumped up, press, UC Davis actually hired three different reputation management firms to do this, all to the tune of over $400k. And she appears to have been more concerned with her own reputation than that of the school she was to be stewarding.
[...] It goes without saying that as we, the link above, and several other online media outlets are discussing these revelations, and placing them alongside the original 2011 incident for context, the work of the three vendors and the nearly half a million dollars paid to them has failed.
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University of California in Davis Spent $175k on SEO and "Reputation Management"
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday August 18 2016, @09:13PM
That's because they were put there by some other person, and that "other person" wants to save face.
Marissa Mayer, for example. She was placed where she was by fellow Jews, did a tacky photo-shoot for Vogue in which she showed a (heavily airbrushed) underarm, [image.gala.de] and is now on her way to Fat City for being an utter fuck-up. Fiorina could be considered her right-wing counterpart for her own likewise ability to gut American business at the expense of the Middle-class.
In my somewhat limited personal experience, I have seen that women who deserve to "be there" and move up or take greater offers "out of there" have earned the respect of their peers and supervisors alike and keep politics the fuck out of work. They aren't loud about identity politics or other bullshit, in fact, they don't believe in it, because identity politics are "picking the scab" to a wound that should be otherwise healed.
Any sane corporate whore, male or not, smartly realizes that those they promote are good at their jobs. Being good at a job other than politics means -- first -- being good at that job and otherwise cleverly avoiding the politics and other non-job-related obstacles which pop up from time to time.
Unfortunately, hiring often occurs due to nepotism and word-of-mouth. That's the weak link that incompetent workers get bailed from, whether it be because the boss was fucking her or because she was a friend of a friend of a friend of the boss and needed work.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 18 2016, @11:02PM
I have seen that women who deserve to "be there" and move up or take greater offers "out of there" have earned the respect of their peers and supervisors alike and keep politics the fuck out of work. They aren't loud about identity politics or other bullshit, in fact, they don't believe in it, because identity politics are "picking the scab" to a wound that should be otherwise healed.
I would like to second this.
The women who call me sexist simply because of my assigned gender and choice of profession: they completely suck at their jobs. The women who keep the politics out of it (one I didn't even know was a “feminist” until recently) and just git-r-done: some of the most competent people I've worked with. The women who believe in git-r-done instead of identity politics will always find, even in the face of gaslighting, sexually harassing, asshole managers and women supervisors who have loads of internalized misogyny and think it's still 1916, that in the end, once they demonstrate their value over and over again, they can rise to whatever level they wish to without any help from white knights or radfems.
Glass ceilings only exist these days because of biological factors that won't change and dipshits who play identity politics and think the world just owes them a six figure salary and a corner office for being born with their reproductive system on the inside.