Comments on: Yale Dean Just Lost Her Job for Rude Yelp Reviews

By: Gary Dumais

Gary Dumais — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:27:47 +0000

I think it’s important to keep in mind that her reviews went beyond being unrefined, or something off-the-cuff that was written in an overly relaxed manner. Rather, there were elements of hate and attacks in her reviews (even if passive-aggressive in the very least). There is a broader issue here of using online “reviews” to attack and disparage people or groups of people. It’s a serious and growing problem. I’m glad to see someone has been held accountable for the damage they’ve done by using online media as a weapon.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:33:53 +0000

When I think of a Deans at Yale, I think of someone distinguished, serious, erudite, refined, classy. Her reviews show no trace of any of these qualities. So whether or not her firing was warranted, how did she get the job in the first place?

By: Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:10:31 +0000

In reply to jdgalt. I tell managers not to follow their employees on social media because I do think you should be able to have a separate work and personal life. But, she's in a position of power over students, and that makes things like this very different.

By: Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:09:26 +0000

In reply to grannybunny. This is true. She had a bunch more. Not the type of person you'd want advising college students.

By: Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:08:48 +0000

In reply to Dorothy. People seriously don't get this. I have a rule and that is I always comment under my real name. It keeps me from thinking that I'm anonymous.

By: Observer

Observer — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 02:12:12 +0000

In reply to Tana. Exactly. There is no doubt that the racism and classism is what got her. I can't imagine any student of any race going to her if they were in school on a scholarship since Poor = trash according to her.

By: Goober

Goober — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 01:55:48 +0000

Privacy on the internet is inherently impossible, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something. It is a public forum, and always will be.

Never say anything on the internet that would embarrass you for your mother to see on the 6:00 o’clock news.

By: Elizabeth West

Elizabeth West — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 01:31:37 +0000

Sounds like she thought she was being snarky and clever. Not so much.

By: fposte

fposte — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:56:07 +0000

In reply to jdgalt. She also apparently brought her status as an elite Yelp reviewer to the attention of her students, so she'd connected this with her workplace on her own.

By: jdgalt

jdgalt — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:13:29 +0000

A good moral case can be made that employers generally ought not punish their employees for political commentary not connnected with the workplace. But I don’t think this principle should extend to an employee who has the power to hire and fire, or to grant or deny college admission, because in that case any bigoted comment casts real, reasonable doubt on her willingness to use those powers in a color-blind manner.