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Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by nailer »

diarmuidc wrote: post #81
nailer wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further: the employee was seen to be mischaracterising the protestors/rioters (take your pic) as nazis. The claims 'there were literal nazi flags' (see https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=... ) seem to based on the very broad assumption that Confederate, Kekistan, upside down US flags, 'release the kraken' etc flags are Nazis. See https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionis...…

Here's a literal Nazi rioter. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shir...

Yep, acknowledged. That man is a nazi.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by [deleted] »

silexia wrote: post #40
surfer7837 wrote: post #25

I've just seen the screenshots from https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees... You just shouldn't be speaking like that in a company Slack channel. Politics should really not be discussed at work, and especially not in a public Slack channel. It's not the right place for it. It makes me not want to work there if they are discussing politics all day in a public Slack channel

I agree completely... Then to try to hold a "empathy circle" to resolve the concerns raised by it... Glad I don't work there!

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Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by Griffinsauce »

chanakya wrote: post #57

There's detail missing, so it's hard to be sure, but this just seems like HR incompetence more than anything else, and it's right that the head of HR left. Companies shouldn't have political discussions in work forums, so the comment about Nazis was inappropriate. But was it a firing offense? They do talk about a "pattern of behaviour", but this comment can't trigger a firing. If they had just reinforced that work fo…

The comment warning coworkers about dangerous people out in the streets was inappropriate?

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Post by bastawhiz »

surfer7837 wrote: post #84
bastawhiz wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain? On January 6 there was a man wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie with the word "staff" printed on the back, on national television. Do you believe this man is not a Nazi? And do you believe that Jewish people do not have a right to warn their coworkers to stay safe in light of people like this committing violent acts? I'm genuinely curious to understand what part you believe is political here, because…

I just don't think a company Slack channel is the right place for this, when tensions are high people can get upset and offended and it just creates a bad work environment. There are time and place for things like this, not over a Slack channel. I don't know about any about that, I haven't been keeping up on the news

This was in their DC slack channel. Do you honestly believe that employees should avoid talking about ongoing riots in their city in their city's slack channel? I genuinely cannot believe that you'd think that an event where five people died was not appropriate for discussion in a city chat, especially to warn people to stay safe.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shir...

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Post by jVinc »

Giving the reporter the benefit of the doubt, the person might actually have been completely oblivious to current events, and taken offense to what seemed like someone calling all republicans nazis. It really speaks to the absurdity of the resent events that this is where we are, that absolutely correct warnings that litteral nazi's are assaulting the Capital are discarded because reality cannot be distinguished from hyperbole.

That said, I for the life of me cannot understand how any HR employee would look at that conversation and decide to reprimand, let alone fire someone for issuing a warning that could quickly be backed up by checking the news. I would not be surprised if both the reporter and now fired head of HR where republicans and Trump supporters, who have a cognitive dissonance around what transpired on the 6th.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by gnusty_gnurc »

> the sacred seat of our democratic republic

If it's so sacred, why does it have a 15% approval rating?

And this "sacred democratic republic" talk that's pivoting around the woke narratives that pervade tech seems to conflict with the 1619 project line that we're irredeemably corrupted and evil by design.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by nomdep »

blueplanet200 wrote: post #31
surfer7837 wrote: post #25

I've just seen the screenshots from https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees... You just shouldn't be speaking like that in a company Slack channel. Politics should really not be discussed at work, and especially not in a public Slack channel. It's not the right place for it. It makes me not want to work there if they are discussing politics all day in a public Slack channel

I don’t think pointing out nazis at the capitol is politics. Healthcare policy is politics, the election is politics. Pointing out nazis at an armed insurrection? No.

Calling all Trump supporters "nazis" is.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by marcinzm »

benjohnson wrote: post #83
marcinzm wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn't call all protestors nazis in the slack message. They just said there were nazis protesting which is factually true.

My best attempt at equivelent from the right would be "stay safe, the Thugs are rioting" during a BLM protest. If that doesn't seem fair and feels condescending to you, then you can probably imagine how some on the right feel.

I mean if that particular protest had known violent looters in it (ie: Thugs) then I would appreciate the heads up. I don't want to end up with a brick thrown at me while walking home or something.

edit: My liberal friends were generally concerned about our safety during the early BLM protests in our cities. Supporting the cause doesn't mean supporting the violent participants or wanting to get entangled with them.

Re: Update on an Employee Matter

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Post by BuildTheRobots »

kybernetyk wrote: post #76
BuildTheRobots wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Nazis gave the Jews free healthcare" It's not a joke. I can only assume this is a reference to the abhorrent "medical" experiments the Nazis were doing on prisoners, Dr Death being one of the more famous proponents. The wikipedia article barely scratches the surface of the depravity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

The third reich had free health care. Maybe he’s referring to that? The post is from 2016 and out of context so it might be from some discussion over health care costs. Reading all this drama I’m glad that I don’t have to work for a living anymore. Looks like you wouldn’t get any work done over the constant drama. Very depressing.

According to wikipedia it wasn't free healthcare, it was health insurance, which people were mandated to have as of 1941.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_People's_We...

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