We Are a Place of Business
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We Are a Place of Business
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#2If it's a place of business that has banned politics, why does he keep blogging things that make him sound like a deranged culture warrior?
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#4If it's a place of business that has banned politics, why does he keep blogging things that make him sound like a deranged culture warrior?
Exactly… if it’s about business WTH does what Google does have anything to do with Hey?
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#5IBM / Dehomag was a place for business as well. Good thing management ignored calls for boycott and told employees to leave their personal politics and support for “the current thing” at the door.
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#6Ah great, the Oppenheimer "Not my Department" school of business ethics.
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#7If it's a place of business that has banned politics, why does he keep blogging things that make him sound like a deranged culture warrior?
Because the unspoken part of all this "we've banned politics" stuff is that in this case it's actually "we've banned politics because you all kept disagreeing with me and I don't like it."
There's plenty of reasons to avoid being overly political at work, but fundamentally, Hey/Basecamp were extremely political, and fine with it, until employees' opinions started diverging from their leadership's. Then, suddenly, it wasn't OK anymore.
And like, fine, it's their company. But all these bizarrely self-satisfied proselytizing blogposts about it don't look as good as Hansson seems to think they do.
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#8While I agree with the sentiment espoused here, as a capitalist and business owner It's not a good look to praise other companies for sacking their workers.
Most likely he's trying to validate his own decision to remove politics from his workforce by praising and aligning himself with Google.
Well done! They sacked some SJWs! Good job boys!
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#9If it's a place of business that has banned politics, why does he keep blogging things that make him sound like a deranged culture warrior?
Because the unspoken part of all this "we've banned politics" stuff is that in this case it's actually "we've banned politics because you all kept disagreeing with me and I don't like it." There's plenty of reasons to avoid being overly political at work, but fundamentally, Hey/Basecamp were extremely political, and fine with it, until employees' opinions started diverging from their leadership's. Then, suddenly, it…
From all the "interesting" links in that blog post, I wonder if rather it was the leadership that became political (in a "wokism is the new theocracy" sense) and they were annoyed the employees didn't follow.
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#10If it's a place of business that has banned politics, why does he keep blogging things that make him sound like a deranged culture warrior?
Because the unspoken part of all this "we've banned politics" stuff is that in this case it's actually "we've banned politics because you all kept disagreeing with me and I don't like it." There's plenty of reasons to avoid being overly political at work, but fundamentally, Hey/Basecamp were extremely political, and fine with it, until employees' opinions started diverging from their leadership's. Then, suddenly, it…
The founders got older, and soon they were at odds with younger, woke workers.
I agree he doesn’t look as good as he thinks he does.