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(Edit: Taken in isolation:) Over-reactions all around. Price's initial reactions were over the top (they are linked here), as well as ArenaNet's reactions. Whe

(Edit: Taken in isolation:) Over-reactions all around. Price's initial reactions were over the top (they are linked here), as well as ArenaNet's reactions. When a dev drops a production database by accident, you shouldn't fire the dev. You train the dev, fix the issue, and get better policies in place. Yet they fired Price for something much more easily repairable. What do I think the proper solution entails? You get her a separate business twitter account, publicly apologize for the farce, and instigate a good personal/work social media separation policy. Edit: I think the company lacks integrity. Instead of taking responsibility for a problem, they burned their employee.

ndiscussion 8y ago
Dropping a production DB would generally be an accident - this seems more like poor judgment.
ars 8y ago
> Yet they fired Price for something much more easily repairable. Being a touchy dev is repairable. But trying to turn this into some sort of women developer issue is much worse, doing that is toxic to all the other women you work with because it makes people disregard them with: "oh she's just being a women". They did the right thing firing her. And she has made life much worse for all other women developers, who are normal and can take criticism as humans without saying "I'm a woman, you can't criticize me".
- swsieber 8y ago
  I think her post-firing reaction made this unrepairable and very toxic, but I think even her second tweet about being a female developer could have been worked around with an official apology. Her reactions are unwarranted though - the small nit pointed to her on twitter is something I would raise with somebody, regardless of gender (disclaimer - not the one who posted it).
guitarbill 8y ago
That's assuming this was the first and only incident - we don't know if it was.
- swsieber 8y ago
  In the article Price states this was the first time the company talked to her about her twitter account - I'm willing to believe that. I think she's overly dramatic, but not a liar.
  - dogma1138 8y ago
    I find it hard to believe considering she caught flak before the previous incident before this one was her celebrating the death of TotalBiscuit who died from colon cancer by twitting “I’m glad he won’t be around to cause harm anymore”. And this is just one of many such pearls of wisdom and tolerance from Price. Honestly she’s simply an asshat and if you are being an asshat in public while also being a prominent public figure of your company don’t expect your company to tolerate it. She could choose to be an anonymous asshat but she doesn’t want too in fact many of her outbursts mention or point to her employer directly.
- wolco 8y ago
  We know she was fired for similiar actions before. We also know that going forward chances are she gets fired again for similiar actions.
  - swsieber 8y ago
    Links please. I'm curious.

ndiscussion 8y ago

Dropping a production DB would generally be an accident - this seems more like poor judgment.

ars 8y ago

> Yet they fired Price for something much more easily repairable. Being a touchy dev is repairable. But trying to turn this into some sort of women developer issue is much worse, doing that is toxic to all the other women you work with because it makes people disregard them with: "oh she's just being a women". They did the right thing firing her. And she has made life much worse for all other women developers, who are normal and can take criticism as humans without saying "I'm a woman, you can't criticize me".

swsieber 8y ago
I think her post-firing reaction made this unrepairable and very toxic, but I think even her second tweet about being a female developer could have been worked around with an official apology. Her reactions are unwarranted though - the small nit pointed to her on twitter is something I would raise with somebody, regardless of gender (disclaimer - not the one who posted it).

guitarbill 8y ago

That's assuming this was the first and only incident - we don't know if it was.

swsieber 8y ago
In the article Price states this was the first time the company talked to her about her twitter account - I'm willing to believe that. I think she's overly dramatic, but not a liar.
- dogma1138 8y ago
  I find it hard to believe considering she caught flak before the previous incident before this one was her celebrating the death of TotalBiscuit who died from colon cancer by twitting “I’m glad he won’t be around to cause harm anymore”. And this is just one of many such pearls of wisdom and tolerance from Price. Honestly she’s simply an asshat and if you are being an asshat in public while also being a prominent public figure of your company don’t expect your company to tolerate it. She could choose to be an anonymous asshat but she doesn’t want too in fact many of her outbursts mention or point to her employer directly.
wolco 8y ago
We know she was fired for similiar actions before. We also know that going forward chances are she gets fired again for similiar actions.
- swsieber 8y ago
  Links please. I'm curious.