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Looks as if he was asked to leave. No surprise given the terrible optics they've been under for the past year. NPM is such a vital tool and I really enjoy using

by cols 7y ago

Looks as if he was asked to leave. No surprise given the terrible optics they've been under for the past year. NPM is such a vital tool and I really enjoy using it. I hope their next CEO makes better decisions in regards to the humans who work there. Good luck to all the NPM staff! I'm rooting for you! From the Register... "According to people familiar with the matter, Bogensberger was asked to leave by the company's board of directors." [0] For more context...from Jonathan Cowperthwait, NPM's former vice president of marketing... "Many of us spent the last year watching our friends and colleagues' struggle through our fingers, but I'm still profoundly confident in the company's ability to turn this around. Sometimes bad executives happen to a good company." [1] [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/npm_ceo_bryan_bogensbergers_off/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/npm_ceo_bryan_bogen... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-ceo-bryan-bogensberger-resigns-2019-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-ceo-bryan-bogensberger-r...

sneak 7y ago
Why was he asked to leave? To which “terrible optics” do you refer? Your implied context is opaque.
- cols 7y ago
  If the context is opaque to you then I would encourage you to read the articles and to read the other comments on this thread.
  - sneak 7y ago
    The comment to which I replied is top-level, and has no prior thread context.
  - kanox 7y ago
    As far as I can tell a bunch of people are upset because they got fired - so what? Companies fire people all the time.
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]
- fharper 7y ago
  Here is some background on some of the things that happened while he was CEO: https://twitter.com/fharper/status/1111694552262459393 https://twitter.com/fharper/status/1111694552262459393
  - asciident 7y ago
    Maybe I didn't read too far into the thread, but it sounds like they laid off a guy, provided some severance, and there weren't many managers that sent him a goodbye note? I don't see the connection here... what was the bad thing they did?
    - gkoberger 7y ago
      (The person you're replying to+ who submitted this article _is_ the person they laid off)
      - fharper 7y ago
        *one of the person who was laid off.
    - fharper 7y ago
      Yep, no goodbye note was really the highlight of everything that happened at npm in the last couple of months. This article about union busting https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies... and this one about working conditions at npm https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-employees-open-letter-2019-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-employees-open-letter-20... or The Register who covered mostly everything that happened since the first layoff mentioned in my Twitter thread https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_union_complaints/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_uni...
      - skissane 7y ago
        I don't know anything about NPM's board of directors. I don't know who is on it. So this should not be read as some sort of criticism of them. But I know there are some boards of directors out there, who would view the ability to bust unions (and get away with it) as a reason to hire, not a reason to fire. I don't know why they let go of their CEO. I wouldn't assume it was necessarily for any of the reasons you mentioned. It certainly could have been, but it also could very easily have been for completely unrelated reasons.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Elsewhere in thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029344

by cols 7y ago

sneak 7y ago

Why was he asked to leave? To which “terrible optics” do you refer? Your implied context is opaque.

cols 7y ago
If the context is opaque to you then I would encourage you to read the articles and to read the other comments on this thread.
- sneak 7y ago
  The comment to which I replied is top-level, and has no prior thread context.
- kanox 7y ago
  As far as I can tell a bunch of people are upset because they got fired - so what? Companies fire people all the time.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
fharper 7y ago
Here is some background on some of the things that happened while he was CEO: https://twitter.com/fharper/status/1111694552262459393 https://twitter.com/fharper/status/1111694552262459393
- asciident 7y ago
  Maybe I didn't read too far into the thread, but it sounds like they laid off a guy, provided some severance, and there weren't many managers that sent him a goodbye note? I don't see the connection here... what was the bad thing they did?
  - gkoberger 7y ago
    (The person you're replying to+ who submitted this article _is_ the person they laid off)
    - fharper 7y ago
      *one of the person who was laid off.
  - fharper 7y ago
    Yep, no goodbye note was really the highlight of everything that happened at npm in the last couple of months. This article about union busting https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies... and this one about working conditions at npm https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-employees-open-letter-2019-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-employees-open-letter-20... or The Register who covered mostly everything that happened since the first layoff mentioned in my Twitter thread https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_union_complaints/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_uni...
    - skissane 7y ago
      I don't know anything about NPM's board of directors. I don't know who is on it. So this should not be read as some sort of criticism of them. But I know there are some boards of directors out there, who would view the ability to bust unions (and get away with it) as a reason to hire, not a reason to fire. I don't know why they let go of their CEO. I wouldn't assume it was necessarily for any of the reasons you mentioned. It certainly could have been, but it also could very easily have been for completely unrelated reasons.
dredmorbius 7y ago
Elsewhere in thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029344