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| For the life of me cannot fathom why PlayHaven | went to the extreme step of firing the dev in | question. | | What he did was certainly wrong, but ce
by pyre 14y ago
| For the life of me cannot fathom why PlayHaven
| went to the extreme step of firing the dev in
| question.
|
| What he did was certainly wrong, but certainly not
| a firable offense. A stern warning from HR
| would've sufficed.
- The ultra-conservative approach is to distance yourself from anything that could be construed as being supportive of a "boys' club" in tech.
- According to CrunchBase, PlayHaven only has 50 employees. It's possible that they don't have an HR person that maybe went through some sort of training for issues like this, and instead decided to go for the approach they thought would be least likely to have fall out (e.g. people up in arms because he's not fired and they are "supporting a misogynist" or something similar).
- They could have paid for his PyCon expenses (therefore he was there representing the company), and they felt that he did a poor job representing the company.
- It's possible there were other reasons they wanted to fire him before PyCon, but this became a good excuse to act on them.
- niggler 14y ago"They could have paid for his PyCon expenses (therefore he was there representing the company), and they felt that he did a poor job representing the company." Doesn't explain why one person is still an employee while the other gentleman was canned. "It's possible there were other reasons they wanted to fire him before PyCon, but this became a good excuse to act on them." I strongly suspect this happened, given the comment in the PlayHaven response: "we will not comment on all the factors that contributed to our parting ways." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5418123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5418123 EDIT: clarifying that one person was not fired.
- Semaphor 14y ago> Doesn't explain why the other gentleman was canned. Which other gentleman got canned?
- niggler 14y agoPoorly worded. One person, identified as "Andy Reid", was not fired but the other person was. Editing parent to reflect the clarification
- cheapsteak 14y agoMaybe they decided to only fire the person who made the joke? It would hardly seem fair to fire the other guy if all he did was listen