Netflix Fires Employee Over Internal Conflicts From Dave Chappelle Special Grow

An unnamed employee from the digital streaming service Netflix has been fired after being connected to internal blowback the company is facing over Dave Chappelle’s most recent comedy special The Closer. This story was reported by The Verge, which stated Netflix employees plan a walkout on Wednesday over transphobic comments made in the special. According to a spokesperson from Netflix, the company alleged that the unnamed employee leaked “confidential, commercially sensitive information” that eventually ended up in a Bloomberg article. Netflix stated: “We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company.”

Other Netflix employees were suspended then re-instated for crashing a digital meeting among the company’s higher-ups. One of these employees was software engineer Terra Field, who is transgender. Field tweeted:

Netflix has reinstated me after finding that there was no ill-intent in my attending the QBR meeting. I've included the statement I requested below.

I'm going to take a few days off to decompress and try to figure out where I'm at. At the very least, I feel vindicated. pic.twitter.com/lYxemYgRkJ

— Terra Field (@RainofTerra) October 13, 2021

Source: NPR