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Yeah agreed - the emails they show also have bad grammar and misspellings too along with the general writing. It's basically understood that unlimited PTO mean

Yeah agreed - the emails they show also have bad grammar and misspellings too along with the general writing. It's basically understood that unlimited PTO means untracked and within some reasonable amount - if you were at an At Will company in the US they don't owe you much. Obviously you can't just take 3 years off of 'unlimited PTO' so it's hard to claim you truly believe it's limitless imo. Expecting a promo when you're not working and expecting to be able to just take infinite vacation (even when dealing with tragedy) is just not realistic. There are other options (medical leave, extended leave, etc.) - some companies will go out of their way to be kind, but I wouldn't have that as my expectation. This kind of rant doesn't look great either - my take away is this person was probably just difficult in general, there may have been other reasons they were not promoted.

function_seven 5y ago
> my take away is this person was probably just difficult in general, there may have been other reasons they were not promoted. My general impression is that it's the difficult people who use terms like "toxic" to describe those they clash with. His "Interesting fact 1" is also a red flag. Dirty words in some internal memo? I'm scandalized! I don't like Atlassian for their slow software, but I'm sure it's a fine company to work for.
- redonyo 5y ago
  It's in the company values - "Open company, no bullshit" and "Don't fuck the customer". When you know the company is Australian it makes more sense.
- arp242 5y ago
  "Gaslighting" is another one that seems quite a decent heuristic; I find that people using this to be less than reasonable in a well above-average number of cases. Of course, as with any heuristic it's far from perfect, and the author may very well be in the right here. It's impossible to tell from this piece and there are a few eyebrow-raisers – so all I can give this story is a shrug.

function_seven 5y ago

> my take away is this person was probably just difficult in general, there may have been other reasons they were not promoted. My general impression is that it's the difficult people who use terms like "toxic" to describe those they clash with. His "Interesting fact 1" is also a red flag. Dirty words in some internal memo? I'm scandalized! I don't like Atlassian for their slow software, but I'm sure it's a fine company to work for.

redonyo 5y ago
It's in the company values - "Open company, no bullshit" and "Don't fuck the customer". When you know the company is Australian it makes more sense.
arp242 5y ago
"Gaslighting" is another one that seems quite a decent heuristic; I find that people using this to be less than reasonable in a well above-average number of cases. Of course, as with any heuristic it's far from perfect, and the author may very well be in the right here. It's impossible to tell from this piece and there are a few eyebrow-raisers – so all I can give this story is a shrug.