Update on an Employee Matter • Hacker News Board

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by shiftingleft » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

renewiltord wrote: post #2

Wow, well, that's the biggest move any big org has taken on an employee matter in recent years.

Quite sad actually

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by redis_mlc » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

> It was appalling last week to watch a violent mob, including Nazis and white supremacists, attack the US Capitol.

Entrance to the US Capitol was led by a BLM/antifa activist, with several more spotted.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by bmiller2 » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

Well they left all the juicy parts out

Context: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees...

I can’t believe people talk like this on a work public channel.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by santoshalper » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

chmod600 wrote: post #8

What was the improper reason for termination? I'm guessing that the employee had some distant political alignment with the insurrectionists, but not close enough to warrant disciplinary action?

Sounds like the opposite.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by pjc50 » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

> Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub yesterday morning, Saturday, January 16th.

You don't normally see consequences for senior officers for this kind of mistake. I would be curious to know who this person was and if they had any odd political affiliations.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by pjc50 » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

chmod600 wrote: post #8

What was the improper reason for termination? I'm guessing that the employee had some distant political alignment with the insurrectionists, but not close enough to warrant disciplinary action?

The alleged reason was "using the word Nazi on Slack", in the context of "“stay safe homies, Nazis are about.”" in relation to the events of the 6th and afterwards.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by londons_explore » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

"We did something wrong which we don't want to talk about, and as part of an agreement to save ourselves from a lawsuit we are now apologising publicly for that bad thing we did and we promise not to do that bad thing again"

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by input_sh » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

jlrubin wrote: post #10

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/github-fires-jew... seems to be about this?

I mean no way of knowing, but I believe so too. Screenshots here: https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1350159432282357760

Other sources: https://gizmodo.com/github-fired-a-jewish-employee-for-warni... https://boingboing.net/2021/01/12/github-fired-a-jewish-empl... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9143169/GitHub-fire...

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by aerovistae » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

bmiller2 wrote: post #13

Well they left all the juicy parts out Context: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees... I can’t believe people talk like this on a work public channel.

Thanks for the link! And yeah agreed.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by bmiller2 » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #15

> Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub yesterday morning, Saturday, January 16th. You don't normally see consequences for senior officers for this kind of mistake. I would be curious to know who this person was and if they had any odd political affiliations.

> Earlier this week, the company hosted an “empathy circle” to “build understanding with members of the team on things that affect us.” It did not go over well with employees.

Maybe they got fired for this terrible idea