> Our rapid growth left the leadership team, myself included, woefully unprepared to properly handle these types of situations. Can we now stop touting immatur

> Our rapid growth left the leadership team, myself included, woefully unprepared to properly handle these types of situations. Can we now stop touting immature companies and bad employership as the future corporate organization? Please? When you put people together in an organization, shit happens. There has to be absolutely no malice involved for things like this to happen. Shit just happens. People fuck up, and sometimes their fuck ups hurt other people. I did it, you did it, we all did. But not creating a decent company structure to deal with that reality and instead make your company an experiment in social Darwinism under the guise of "meritocracy" and "no managers" is utterly irresponsible. It's begging for shit to escalate and people to take advantage. If you have over an x-number of people in your company, you need people to manage that, which has fuck all to do with hierarchy. So Github "recently we hired an experienced head of HR". Over 200 employees, over $100 million in funding, and now they finally fucking bother to hire someone to look out for them. I'm not so much pissed off at Github as I am at the entire tech community that have been cheer-leading running a company so badly. "People are their own managers" works fine when it's just about work. But it isn't. It never is, because they are people. With all the dumb, stupid and sometimes ugly stuff they do besides just work. Employees are not lab rats. P.s. And don't use "rapid growth" as an excuse. It was an ideology. Github's leadership didn't believe they needed to be prepared, that somehow these things would magically not happen in their happy start-up commune.