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To be clear, RC is run by friendly people that encourage learning (i did it last year). This situation isn’t great, but it can’t really be mapped to a universal

To be clear, RC is run by friendly people that encourage learning (i did it last year). This situation isn’t great, but it can’t really be mapped to a universal RC experience. With the new remote setup, I’m sure there’s a balance between the staff letting anyone limp through virtual engagement with the “programming” (of which there is very little — edit: I think this is a great thing about RC, very few mandatory events) and kicking people out based on a strict set of rules. On the one hand, you have less of an engaged community. On the other, you might make harsh seeming decisions sometimes to try to ensure all attending are “all in”.

krisoft 6y ago
They might be very friendly, but they sure seem to pull the trigger very quickly. That's the problem here. I understand that they don't want less engaged members in their program. It sounds like there is a misunderstanding on expectations. The school expected people to be all present for that meeting. I don't know how well they communicated that expectation, but if it's a fireable offence to miss it without recourse or chance of pardon then they should have made that abundantly clear. The other missed expectation is that probably the school officials don't see this as a firing. After all they just moved his batch back by one. What's the big deal? Lot's of new people come in, some joins now, some joins 6 weeks later. That's perfectly sensible from the schools perspective. But from an individual's perspective, who just put their life on hold to do stuff with them for that specific 6 month, the next batch might very well not be a viable option. So these very friendly people sure seems to be also either lacking in empathy, or not really big on second chances. I will make sure to do my best to avoid them, less them be friendly with me too by accident.
- maximp 6y ago
  Another RC alum, and I'm surprised by this. When I was in batch, there was a different sensitive situation regarding another alum, and it was handled slowly, methodically, transparently, and with all the values RC espouses.

krisoft 6y ago

They might be very friendly, but they sure seem to pull the trigger very quickly. That's the problem here. I understand that they don't want less engaged members in their program. It sounds like there is a misunderstanding on expectations. The school expected people to be all present for that meeting. I don't know how well they communicated that expectation, but if it's a fireable offence to miss it without recourse or chance of pardon then they should have made that abundantly clear. The other missed expectation is that probably the school officials don't see this as a firing. After all they just moved his batch back by one. What's the big deal? Lot's of new people come in, some joins now, some joins 6 weeks later. That's perfectly sensible from the schools perspective. But from an individual's perspective, who just put their life on hold to do stuff with them for that specific 6 month, the next batch might very well not be a viable option. So these very friendly people sure seems to be also either lacking in empathy, or not really big on second chances. I will make sure to do my best to avoid them, less them be friendly with me too by accident.

maximp 6y ago
Another RC alum, and I'm surprised by this. When I was in batch, there was a different sensitive situation regarding another alum, and it was handled slowly, methodically, transparently, and with all the values RC espouses.