Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has threatened to fire an anonymous person complaining about "social justice bullies" at Mozilla on Reddit, should the person be discovered to be an employee.
Chris Beard stated that the Reddit user aoiyama's complaints "crossed the line" in a series of posts about the women in the company, including recently departed community organizer Christie Koehler. In a series of tweets earlier this month, Koehler complained about Mozilla's lack of diversity in the workplace and its failure to address accessibility issues.
The Reddit user's comments:
"Frankly everyone was glad to see the back of Christie Koehler. She was batshit insane and permanently offended at everything," the user wrote. "When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief." It was that remark that appeared to trigger Beard's warning today. "When I talk about crossing the line from criticism to hate speech, I'm talking about when you start saying 'someone's kind doesn't belong here, and we'll all be happy when they're gone.'"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Tuesday August 25 2015, @09:49AM
Because, you know, firing always fixes moral problems.
Hmm, can't seem to find anyone to do the work now, I wonder why? Oh, time for HR to bring in their golden-brown h1b buddies.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @09:53AM
Who needs employees? We have this trendy new compiler now that writes your code for you. We call it clang.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @12:10PM
You don't need employees when you can just ship in interns by the crateload.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:48PM
I actually have fun punching that one down.
"we are going to try and get a bunch of interns to do this work"
"sooooo in your budget how are you going to pay for them?"
"what they are free"
"not under the labor laws of this state you need to pay them at a minimum, minimum wage"
"oh I dont have the budget for that"
"guess you are not hiring a bunch of interns for free labor then"
At which point they slink off and try to get HR to do it. Poof no interns.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:50PM
LOL - you meant morale - but maybe moral problems work just as well. I've gotta think about that for a bit . . .