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 doesn't exist outside of Reddit. And now your Google results will, for the rest of your life or until you invent the cure for cancer, have this dumb fiasco tied to your name.
And for what? I would think a Reddit insider, of all people, would know how transient karma and internet fame is. Some employers are going to reject him because he now has a history of spectacularly ripping on his own company. But I have a negative opinion of him because at best, he's someone who shoots his mouth of when it's just not worth it, and at worst, he's a chronic attention seeker.
Rebels are fun. But this isn't Jimmy McNulty complaining about unpunished murders in Baltimore. This is an engineer complaining about business strategy above his pay grade...even worse, he takes the side against the (purportedly unwise) do-gooders at Reddit, so he doesn't even young-headed idealism to blame.
And this isn't even taking into account whether the CEO was speaking truth, in which case, if you were fired for alleged incompetence and you try to play it off publicly as if you were fired for taking a stand...that's just a whole different level of shortsighted stupidity.
That said, the CEO should've taken a few deep breaths before posting what he did. Wrestling with a pig in mud and all...it's not his job to be part of the sideshow and I'm having a hard time imagining that employees feel satisfied about this resolution...other than the fun of water cooler gossip.
edit: The worst part of the CEO's comment..."we're pulling our punches, if you can believe it"...no, I can't believe it, nor did I really care. But now you've shown that you'll play the stupid innuendo game, a rhetorical maneuver that has no upside to the company at all. Christ.
> Some employers are going to reject him because he now has a history of spectacularly ripping on his own company
The worst part for him is that his actions are being flagrantly exaggerated, like you've done right here. He very lightly criticized his employer and speculated in a mild-mannered way on why he might have been fired. The fact that he was fired wasn't even ever intended to be the topic of the thread; he was just willing to respond to a few questions about it. Compared to how most people talk about former employers who have fired them, this guy was downright courteous.
Was it irresponsible for him to start the thread in the first place? Yes. Did he "spectacularly rip" on his own company? Definitely not. His former employer did spectacularly rip on him, though.
It is the part of the CEO that really gets me. Was the employee in the wrong? Certainly. But the way the CEO handled this is just god awful.
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.
People who take the "moral high ground" always have to deal with the same criticism. Edward Snowden? Doing it for attention. Assange? Total attention whore
At some level its true. People take principled stands in the hope that somebody pays attention. That doesn't mean their criticisms or opinions are invalid.
>And now your Google results will, for the rest of your life or until you invent the cure for cancer, have this dumb fiasco tied to your name.
I'm not sure how much harm that will do. Reddit has essentially zero credibility, and yishan even less. If someone told me "the guy you are interviewing was badmouthed by the reddit CEO" it would probably make me view him more favorably.
And for what? I would think a Reddit insider, of all people, would know how transient karma and internet fame is. Some employers are going to reject him because he now has a history of spectacularly ripping on his own company. But I have a negative opinion of him because at best, he's someone who shoots his mouth of when it's just not worth it, and at worst, he's a chronic attention seeker.
Rebels are fun. But this isn't Jimmy McNulty complaining about unpunished murders in Baltimore. This is an engineer complaining about business strategy above his pay grade...even worse, he takes the side against the (purportedly unwise) do-gooders at Reddit, so he doesn't even young-headed idealism to blame.
And this isn't even taking into account whether the CEO was speaking truth, in which case, if you were fired for alleged incompetence and you try to play it off publicly as if you were fired for taking a stand...that's just a whole different level of shortsighted stupidity.
That said, the CEO should've taken a few deep breaths before posting what he did. Wrestling with a pig in mud and all...it's not his job to be part of the sideshow and I'm having a hard time imagining that employees feel satisfied about this resolution...other than the fun of water cooler gossip.
edit: The worst part of the CEO's comment..."we're pulling our punches, if you can believe it"...no, I can't believe it, nor did I really care. But now you've shown that you'll play the stupid innuendo game, a rhetorical maneuver that has no upside to the company at all. Christ.