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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hope he wins. There’s two sides to every story of course, but the complaint puts Jen Cotter in a very bad light. [/quote]

On FB there are people who know her who say this doesn't sound like her, and FWIW (since this is all speculation) she has an LGBT kid, and Daniel has been liking a lot of anti trans anti vax stuff on social media.

I have to admit I agree with others that Peloton must have had a very good reason to let him go with a fairly paltry severance package. They know their press has been bad, and they know he's a popular instructor and it would have benefitted them to pay him off. They chose not to. And I have learned a lot of less than flattering things about him lately. I mean liking Candace Owens on twitter is enough all by itself almost. Which is a real bummer because he was my favorite strength instructor. I'm not going to say I know for sure who is right or wrong, but I know there are always three sides to every story and we're only hearing the first one, which in the world of PR gets a big advantage. And when there is money at play, the stories are always biased.

As for overpaying instructors you guys are nuts. Cody would be close to irreplaceable for them. The instructor salaries, even in the 6/7 figures, are drops in the bucket for the overall overhead and people fall in love with them. The fact that they don't have a rotating door of instructors honestly says a lot and it keeps butts on the bikes. People get attached, they get followings, people feel personally connected to their favorite instructors. Cody, with his 2-3 classes a week, is probably viewed by at minimum hundreds of thousands of users a week. And if he quit, I bet they would see a not insignificant of app users cancel. He's worth the million bucks or whatever he's getting. When you think about what the 'instructor salary' line item is at say, soul cycle? Its likely FAR more than peloton because they pay hundreds of instructors all over the country, instead of 50 like peloton is doing. [/quote]

100%. I was actually never a fan of Daniel- not that I disliked him but just prefer other instructors. That said, his liking of Candace Owens is enough for me on its own to never take a class of his again- it’s just totally antithetical to my personal values and I can’t stomach it. I don’t have an opinion on this lawsuit bc I want more info, such as Peloton’s response.. BUT my feeling was always that his firing had something to do with his social media behavior and that stuff being in direct conflict with their brand, their general vibe, and the values shared by their instructors who are a very diverse and inclusive bunch.[/quote]

What’s nuts is that he would feel so strongly about keeping up his Twitter stuff that he must have refused to take them down when asked. [/quote]

I can see where he's coming from, though -- other instructors openly talk about politics in class and on social media.  You may disagree with his views, as I do, but it doesn't help Peloton's cause if he's given disparate treatment over old likes on Twitter (the ones I saw were from March) when others who talk politics more openly in class aren't.[/quote]

No one was forced to become a Peloton instructor. No one is owed a platform by their employer. Peloton picks what values they want to embody, and they can choose not to give a platform to someone who is opposed to the values they espouse. And this applies as much to people who work at the My Pillow company as it does Peloton.

But generally lawsuits like this are supposed to paint a villain and a victim. And it does. There is 110% stuff he has left out (as he should, you don't hand the opposition your weak points). Certainly he got a bunch of warnings about this and chose to keep doing it. They don't owe him a job. [/quote]

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