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It should be made known that "about one-third" of basecamp employees would be what 15-16 or so? It's not difficult to imagine that you'd have a handful of peop
by monkeywork 5y ago
It should be made known that "about one-third" of basecamp employees would be what 15-16 or so?
It's not difficult to imagine that you'd have a handful of people who felt politically / socially strong enough to take the buyout for their stated reason and another handful that saw 6 months of pay and a high demand job market and went for it as well.
1/3 sounds like a big deal if you are thinking basecamp is a massive company but in reality they are less than 60 people last time I checked.
If I have a company with 2 other people and one of us leaves due to some sort of dispute, that's also a 1/3 but has a very different feel than if a 1000 head count shop loses 333 people.
- faitswulff 5y agoThey lost the entire iOS development team, among others.
- monkeywork 5y agoGreat how many people was that team?
- faitswulff 5y ago"They lost an entire leg in that accident..." "Oh yeah? How much did it weigh?"
- monkeywork 5y agostrawman argument. The # of people completely matters - if they were all from the same subteam of the company or not doesn't really matter.
- faitswulff 5y agoNobody on this site seems to understand what a strawman argument is. I'm saying they lost an entire functional unit of their engineering team. That's momentous no matter how many people were in it.