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You are welcome to your opinion. ;) But anyone who responds to being called out publicly, isn't retaliating imo.
It's not being called out, it's the tone. The tone sounds almost like a playground spat. Which hints at it being personality conflict, rather than a performance thing.
The CEO has responded to the criticism of how it was handled: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditCensorship/comments/2ifd3p/ud... "Hiya. It was a harsh response, I agree (there's actually more, but we're pulling our punches, if you can believe it), and in fact all day yesterday I didn't want to post a reply, hoping his AMA wouldn't get too much traction or he wouldn't spout too many misconceptions and we could all just c…
Without knowing any of the sides here, all I can say for sure is that the ex-Reddit employee is showing a baffling amount of bad judgment here, even when benchmarked against other young-techie-implosions. Maybe he thought, "Oh no biggie, I can always delete this thread later and my real name isn't on it"...yes, until the thread explodes and now one of the many tech-news blogs jumps on it...the "no doxx allowed" rule…
When you see a pissed of shopper going off on a sales person, the sales person knows they have to stay calm and must not reply with the same kind of attitude that they are met with. Because whatever they say may reflect negatively on the company. You would think a CEO would also know how to do that. So now I know that the CEO of reddit is a bad example of a CEO. No professionalism to speak of and has no problem getting petty in public just cause he is personally pissed of. With all that money he recently received he should think about taking some PR or general management classes in order to learn how to handle things like this cause he is clearly as incompetent in that area as he accuses this ex employee to be in the area he was hired in.
And with all the remarks here about how its "politically correct" to put on the HR spin about never going this low, i'm just shocked and amazed. I can see why its hard for these companies to find staff for HR.
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> being stupid enough to lie about his termination You might want to reevaluate that position. You're reflexively siding with the CEO. You don't know that he's lying and saying "I think was fired because I did this" is not lying either way anyways. I'm not saying you have to side with the ex-employee either, doing an AMA like that was pretty stupid as well. But the CEO's level of basic professionalism here leaves any…
> You might want to reevaluate that position. You're reflexively siding with the CEO. You don't know that he's lying and saying "I think was fired because I did this" is not lying either way anyways. You're right, thank you. I got carried away.
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You are taking the CEOs words as fact when the reality of the situation is, we don't know what the truth is right now. Judging from the fact that the CEO responded in such a childish manner I really have no reason to believe anyone in this situation. What if the CEO just posted what he thought was the reason why this employee was fired. What if there is no documentation backing up the CEOs statements.
First of all, I wouldn't call CEO's response childish, I'd call it exactly right . Honest, clear and straight talking is what we need to have more, and not some corporate contentless PR fluffs. Secondly, CEO just exposed himself to a potential lawsuit and a total loss of respect from his subordinates if he lied even a little bit in that statement. That is kind of a whole lot of evidence favouring trusting him over th…
And admin didn't clarify things that would make judgment easier like: Did you tell the employee they were fired? Are you calling him a liar? That isn't clear to me... too many employers hide firings behind other, less obvious reasons.
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Tech companies fire people for dissenting opinions. I'm not sure that it's news, or even especially wrong. That's an unwritten rule of the workplace: don't question or embarrass your boss or his boss. Ever. This kid had very little credibility. Oddly enough, though his situation is overall worse now that Yishan responded, he has more. What we now have is a factual event, not speculation, and it's far more damaging th…
It is absolutely unusual, and undoubtedly wrong, to be fired because you disagree. I disagree to the fullest extent with the project I am currently on and its overall direction and I have made that clear to my management. We've identified that opportunity to scope it better and, amazingly, my badge still works. That you think you were "pushed out" of Google because you disagreed with the direction of G+, and that the…
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You mean he realized that the PR-speak version (which judging by the comments in this thread, people want for some reason) went over like a turd in a punch bowl, and then he reverted to plain English? Am I supposed to see that as a negative or something?
Your posts reek of intellectual dishonesty. It is not logical to conclude that he decided to be one kind of an asshole about one thing because being a different kind of asshole about a different thing wasn't popular. His response is based on his relation with the subject, not time or learning a lesson.
Ok, I don't get it. So everyone here says that CEO's statement was childish, and yet next time when another company issues a professional statement, people will be calling it content-less cover-your-ass PR fluff, and crying for more honesty and straight talk. Make up your mind. As for me, personally, I think CEO's response was exactly what it should be. Honest, clear, straight to the point. Reddit just earned my resp…
The short answer is HN values the top contrarian voice regardless of which side is actually in the right.
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Your posts reek of intellectual dishonesty. It is not logical to conclude that he decided to be one kind of an asshole about one thing because being a different kind of asshole about a different thing wasn't popular. His response is based on his relation with the subject, not time or learning a lesson.
You're the one who brought "being an asshole" into this, and the entire rest of your post is completely nonsensical.
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The point of TL;DR is to summarize a longer piece. It literally means “Too long; didn't read”
I don't think you can summarize without first interpreting.