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>What he did was certainly wrong, but certainly not a firable offense. It's probably not his first offense. It's more likely that this was just the straw that
by zalzane 14y ago
>What he did was certainly wrong, but certainly not a firable offense.
It's probably not his first offense. It's more likely that this was just the straw that broke the camel's back rather than his first infraction.
>Also, I don't understand the hate and DDoS directed towards SendGrid.
4chan's politics+/b/ boards are chiefly responsible for the DDOS, as far as I know. Those guys love mob mentality and eye-for-an-eye, so it's likely their motivation was to get Richards fired rather than to redeem the guy who made the jokes.
- dohertyjf 14y agoAlso, "wrong"? It was immature to be sure, but "wrong"?? There are no ethics at play here.
- bigiain 14y ago"It's probably not his first offense." Even if that's true (and I've got no clue either way), it's at least in retrospect turned out to be a _spectacularly_ bad PR move for them. If they wanted him gone - they should have fired him "privately", doing something like that as such an obvious response to "internet drama" was _always_ going to be "the wrong thing". (Even it it _was_ "the last straw", they should have waited a week or two - if only just to publicly disconnect their HR processes from being twitter/forum shitstorm driven.)