Walter Mosley Quits ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ After CBS HR Called Him on Using N-Word in Writers Room

[hewontgo]

Black Author Walter Mosley Quits 'Star Trek: Discovery' After CBS HR Called Him on Using N-Word in Writers Room https://t.co/kyAroy66qF
- TheWrap (@TheWrap) September 7, 2019
Novelist and screenwriter Walter Mosley has quit as a writer on the CBS All Access series “Star Trek Discovery” after disagreeing with the company’s human resources department

Comments

[backwardsjoker]

🙄 Disgusting. Someone cost this man a job because he used a word fully in his right in saying. Fucking stupid

[mimblexwimble]

He left of his own accord. HR didn't take any action against him.

[300psychosis]

The word 'quit' is literally in the title.

[brokecouture]

[mimblexwimble]

Oh come on. It's a writer's room with a history of unprofessional and abusive conditions. We don't know who made the complaint. We don't know the precise circumstances. But you want to sit here a decide that a bunch of writers with far less power and fewer opportunities than Walter Mosley cost him his job when HR specifically refused to take any action? He wrote an op-ed airing his concerns in The New York Times, for Pete's sake, where he characterizes those writers as snitches who surveiled him. He had the security of leaving a new job without even notifying anyone--just stopped showing up. But people with less power in the workplace should not be able go to HR if they're uncomfortable and should not have their concerns taken seriously if they do

[mikochin]

Agreed 100%.

[backwardsjoker]

It's okay, they don't get it

[j___adore]

yikes, at the above.