Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
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Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#2Aw man. This is totally gonna get taken down by YC management/altman...
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#3Aw man. This is totally gonna get taken down by YC management/altman...
Why would it? Seems like a perfectly reasonable and professional response by yishan, shows investors that he isn't going to take crap from ex-employees trying to bad mouth the company.
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#4Aw man. This is totally gonna get taken down by YC management/altman...
If the discussion is about the general topic of publicly airing private employee information, it could stay as it could be something founders could learn from. If this topic goes into drama mode about specific people or this specific instance, it should probably end up getting moderated.
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#5Aw man. This is totally gonna get taken down by YC management/altman...
Why would it? Seems like a perfectly reasonable and professional response by yishan, shows investors that he isn't going to take crap from ex-employees trying to bad mouth the company.
Entrepreneurship in the making?
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#6Is this legal? Where I live, I'm pretty sure this kind of public disclosure isn't allowed due to privacy laws.
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#7Is this legal? Where I live, I'm pretty sure this kind of public disclosure isn't allowed due to privacy laws.
"When an employee is dismissed from employment at a company, the policy of almost every company (including reddit) is not to comment, either publicly or internally. This is because companies have no desire to ruin someone's future employment prospects by broadcasting to the world that they were fired. In return, the polite expectation is that the employee will not go shooting their mouth off about the company especially (as in your case) through irresponsibly unfounded speculation. Signing a non-disparagement indicates that you have no intention to do this, so the company can then say "Ok, if anyone comes asking for a reference on this guy, we needn't say he was fired, just give a mildly positive reference." Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement, the company will give you the benefit of the doubt and not disparage you or make any negative statements first. Unfortunately, you have just forfeited this arrangement." -Yishan to former employee
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#8Forcing employees to sign a non-disparagement agreement? -- Screw that. (Edit: force, compel, persuade, strongly hint: semantics.)
Saying that a former employee violating a non-disparagement agreement means that it's now a good idea for the company to take use an eye-for-an-eye policy in return? -- What.
No (American) non-executive employees should ever be forced to sign anything. I never have for any job. Employers are in too powerful of a position by default.
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#9Forcing employees to sign a non-disparagement agreement? -- Screw that. (Edit: force, compel, persuade, strongly hint: semantics.) Saying that a former employee violating a non-disparagement agreement means that it's now a good idea for the company to take use an eye-for-an-eye policy in return? -- What. No (American) non-executive employees should ever be forced to sign anything. I never have for any job. Employers…
I don't think you're forced to sign. That point is also lightly touched on in the comment - "the non-disparagement we asked you to sign" and "Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement".
I've signed these before, and I was under no impression that I was being forced.
Re: Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
#10Sounds like a toxic environment. Whatever the employee may have done to deserve separation, it is profoundly weird and troubling (and also, implicitly threatening to all employees, whatever their rank or standing) to see a CEO discuss those reasons in public.