Basecamp Employees Flee Company After CEO Rejects Woke Capitalism
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I actually approve of what the CEO said. Leave your politics at home when you go to the office. All through last year I had to sit quiet while the rest of my TDS colleagues moaned and bitched about Orange Man Bad and some lives mattering. I could have completely done without that.
While we're at it, same goes for sex, leave that at home as well. I am tired of LGBTQ+ webinars all the time at work. I don't care what my cow-orkers like to do with their genitals but just don't bring it to where I am.
they're now on my list of places to think of next time i look for a job as a software engineer
careful, they've apparently already created 'opinionated' software - wont be that great to work on, even if you are doing the Lords work by de-politicizing it. Not to mention that the other 2/3 of the employees who didnt quit tolerated the woke bullshit to begin with
See my other comment, “opinionated software” is a tech term.
I've never heard that term before and I work in the industry myself.
From the article:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/802050/what-is-opinionated-software#802064
I think context is important here, look at the quote from the article. In my opinion it is VERY CLEAR that they are not referring to what you are referring to
And to demoralize the rest of the staff. Only 1/3 quit that is telling.
I hope they scrap their crap and rewrite their code
That (opinionated software) refers to a software engineering principle aka Cathedral model where one thinks from first principles instead of copying what everyone else is doing.
Yeah it’s not a well understood term outside the the tech circle.
I’m surprised more didn’t quit.
They’re not the majority
Wow, people are searching for micro aggressions when we have full out riotors bullying Americans sitting down to dinner. Nevermind the CCP enslaving workers to make the iPhones used to organize the riots. iPhones that cannot be cracked unless your President Trump’s Attorney.
It will be better software now.
Rails will get better too.
Likely a blessing for Basecamp. I've been following DHH for a long while, and Basecamp is one of the innovators in remote working... They have been a 100% distributed company from the beginning, I believe. I've long been impressed with them.
Seems that they found a shortcut to trim the fat (more like toss the garbage) of their labour force, at their company... Given the amazing benefits, and culture for geeks Basecamp supports, I suspect that all those that quit over this have been being ugly entitled snowflakes, which I'm sure the company will benefit in losing in the long run. Pity our society has been making people like this :( Fuck gender/diversity/womens studies, and anything else like it!
Can I get a job? ?♀️ All my woke company wants to do is talk about groups of people...I’m like, “ I thought we were here to run a business that pulls a profit.”