Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work

Post by rawland » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC

    > [...] I understand the motivations behind the
    > policy change but they are misguided: GitLab,
    > please show that the concerns of your community and
    > staff are our first priority by reverting
    > this change.

Post by magduf » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #198

JDiculous wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem isn't the discussion of politics, it's the fact that that would even matter or influence your job in any negative way.

America has become very polarized over just the past decade. We say we want diversity, but that doesn't include that one fundie Christian person who reads his or her Bible at lunch and believes that homosexuality is wrong, but still wants to be friends with and accept everyone. We want diversity of people, but not diversity of ideas or ideology. People are afraid to talk about anything remotely controversial today, b…

Post by TeMPOraL » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

microtherion wrote: post #248

vowelless wrote: post #18

I am glad Dang changed the title as the original one was unnecessarily inflammatory. I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product. Why do anything to disturb that? > Such a declaration could run afoul of legal boundaries in some circumstances. Whi…

> Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product Do you think the Gitlab CEO's policy declaration helped or hurt team cohesion?

Post by throw_xyzyz » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

shadowgovt wrote: post #151

So when do you imagine they'll be implementing Navajo language support in their UI? Or is someone going to have to make the judgement call that Navajo users don't constitute a big enough political block to influence their l10n priorities? Someone has to make those calls

Post by Nullabillity » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

aantix wrote: post #154

Nullabillity wrote: post #107

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> I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product. Why do anything to disturb that? The health of the democracy is far more important than your company's profit margin. And besides, enforcing silence is still a political move that strongly favours th…

Democracy is fine. The health of my family is more important than your politics.