This was about asking for answers, not about cancelling season tickets. Both of which are reasonable things IMO.
Alleged Sexual Harassment at NYCFC
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On the fan's right to know:
Without checking, can you answer what brand/company is/are your:
Ask any brand marketer and they will tell you the holy grail of branding is not that you like the product but that you identify the product with your sense of self.
So the objective NYCFC pursues - fan identity with the team - is exactly the mechanism that drives the fans feeling of both desire and right to know. (As an aside, this is the reason that Apple is a very poor counter-example. Apple's ardent fans absolutely identify with their products and absolutely do demand the same kind of inside info we seek from NYCFC. Bic users not so much.)
None of that translates into the "right" to know. Rights are granted only by society or by god (if you believe in god). But great branding certainly gives people the insatiable desire to know.
Without checking, can you answer what brand/company is/are your:
- Stove
- Office chair
- Mattress
- Car
- Toilet
- Pots and pans
- Computer
- Phone
- Pen
- TV
- Scissors
- Couch
- Soccer team
Ask any brand marketer and they will tell you the holy grail of branding is not that you like the product but that you identify the product with your sense of self.
- I'm an American
- I'm a New Yorker
- I'm a [insert religion]
- I'm a [insert college] alum
- I'm an iPhone user
- I'm an NYCFC fan
So the objective NYCFC pursues - fan identity with the team - is exactly the mechanism that drives the fans feeling of both desire and right to know. (As an aside, this is the reason that Apple is a very poor counter-example. Apple's ardent fans absolutely identify with their products and absolutely do demand the same kind of inside info we seek from NYCFC. Bic users not so much.)
None of that translates into the "right" to know. Rights are granted only by society or by god (if you believe in god). But great branding certainly gives people the insatiable desire to know.
While some of you are still grappling with whether or not you really care, The Athletic has taken the article off the paywall if you haven't read the whole thing:
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From the CEO -- I can't believe he tried to steal a player's post-game interview thunder:
NYCFC has always been a Club committed to aligning with industry best practices in the area of harassment prevention and workplace conduct training, but we are now committing to do even more. Our focus is first on preventing such behavior by building upon our existing education and awareness trainings and improving our current policy to institute clearer protocols around such misconduct:
Put simply, we adopt a zero-tolerance approach in matters of this nature. While we cannot change what happened, we have taken immediate action and will do everything in our power to ensure that something like this does not ever happen at the Club again.
NYCFC has always been a Club committed to aligning with industry best practices in the area of harassment prevention and workplace conduct training, but we are now committing to do even more. Our focus is first on preventing such behavior by building upon our existing education and awareness trainings and improving our current policy to institute clearer protocols around such misconduct:
- While NY law requires sexual harassment training 1x a year for all employees, we have increased our trainings to 2x a year
- We will include interns and those individuals employed by third party staffing agencies in all employee trainings going forward
- We are revamping the intern program including reviewing and revising the process in which interns are recruited, hired, trained, supervised and managed during the course of their internships
- We are exploring additional methods of educating players in addition to the mandatory MLS training, including training on Club policies and procedures
- We are enhancing our existing reporting processes for victims of misconduct (e.g. reporting directly to HR and/or legal)
Put simply, we adopt a zero-tolerance approach in matters of this nature. While we cannot change what happened, we have taken immediate action and will do everything in our power to ensure that something like this does not ever happen at the Club again.
Muller acted like a pompous and fatuous asshole in asking that in that time and his tone and manner. He was out of line.
I can think CFG are scum and also say that john acted (less egregious, but still also) scummy.
it just wasn’t fair to Keaton with the timing. I just wouldn’t do that to someone. Keaton was within his rights to tell him to go screw himself. Extremely well done by him to hold it together.
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Dude, that totally came off as a wannabe gotcha question from Muller.
I thought it was way out of line.
Depends. Did John Muller RSVP?
Doesn't look like it, also his name doesn't match those in the article. This guy looks like he was well loved by the whole team, based on all the comments from current and former players.
Kitman Jr? Absolutely not. And he’s going to Austin.
Got it. We already knew this guy was leaving.
Wonder if Mata leaving had anything to do with all this harassing
We really should not be asking questions like this without evidence. It's deeply unfair to Matarrita to make that insinuation without evidence.
There was a deeply reported piece about it from The Athletic, which I assume you've read.
Being friends with an accused harasser, or being someone who leaves a company where someone was accused of harassment isn't generally considered to be on the same level, as far as evidence goes.
Timeout. Aren’t we all sh*tting on the Club for not handling this stuff? How can they handle it if this guys friends weren’t reporting it
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