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was gonna say this needs a 2017 tag but after reading it this actually belongs on 8chan. The author has a whole blog dedicated to ostracizing this guy. Lot of o

was gonna say this needs a 2017 tag but after reading it this actually belongs on 8chan. The author has a whole blog dedicated to ostracizing this guy. Lot of one-sided drivel and hate there. Would be interesting to hear the other guy's opinion not just the view of somebody with an axe to grind. Hope the author gets sued for defamation. Author calls himself Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Procore Technologies according to his LinkedIn. I wouldn't want to work in a company where a senior manager is unable to let go of disagreements with his underlings and goes on to publicly crucify those he disagreed with. What an arse-hat.

ColinWright 7y ago
It's interesting that you say that. I have war-stories that are so similar to this as to come close to giving me PTSD. If you've never been in a situation where you have the "one hero who's smarter than everyone else" then perhaps you can't empathise with this. But I can. My purpose in sharing this was to help people recognise situations like this early, and thereby possibly to avoid it going the way this one did. Ignore it if you will.
- DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
  I have been in toxic places like this but I also wonder if being sucked into a dynamic so deeply that one would go out to ostracise another person on a several month long campaign is well spent energy and healthy for the person doing it. Maybe that person really was so horrid that they deserve it idk but it says as much about the accuser as it does about the alleged culprit. Most work place dynamic I have seen there was always one person that stuck out in a negative way, and the places where this wasn't as much an issue was when all the others (who were normal) were able to see the BS and not give that person a platform to begin with. Maybe this should have been spotted earlier and management should have responded quicker rather than letting things become this toxic, but since the author seemed part of the management the whole thing just seems off. Hard to say as an outsider what the situation there was other than something doesn't gel.

ColinWright 7y ago

It's interesting that you say that. I have war-stories that are so similar to this as to come close to giving me PTSD. If you've never been in a situation where you have the "one hero who's smarter than everyone else" then perhaps you can't empathise with this. But I can. My purpose in sharing this was to help people recognise situations like this early, and thereby possibly to avoid it going the way this one did. Ignore it if you will.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
I have been in toxic places like this but I also wonder if being sucked into a dynamic so deeply that one would go out to ostracise another person on a several month long campaign is well spent energy and healthy for the person doing it. Maybe that person really was so horrid that they deserve it idk but it says as much about the accuser as it does about the alleged culprit. Most work place dynamic I have seen there was always one person that stuck out in a negative way, and the places where this wasn't as much an issue was when all the others (who were normal) were able to see the BS and not give that person a platform to begin with. Maybe this should have been spotted earlier and management should have responded quicker rather than letting things become this toxic, but since the author seemed part of the management the whole thing just seems off. Hard to say as an outsider what the situation there was other than something doesn't gel.