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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 1 year ago

Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters

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Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters

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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 1 year ago
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Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.

archive: https://archive.is/AKASQ

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    So he’s added 50% more severance (6 -> 9 months) to this round of loyalty purges, AND is snooping on employees email?

    Part of me is sad, but the rest of me wants more popcorn since I can’t wait for Act 3.

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    mullenweg pissing you off? you should totally replace WordPress with [static blog generator using an idiosyncratic variant of markdown], i wrote it yesterday in [nightly rust/perl 4/ocaml]. It doesn’t have [list of basic blogging features] because those are wrong things to want

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      acausal robot god, i have sinned, i am deliberately baiting the nerds. what no this isn’t a confession it’s a brag

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      “comments? what do you mean, why aren’t these people just on usenet?”

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      @dgerard

      I feel seen.

      https://freeke.org/ffg/mine-all-mine.html

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      @dgerard Thank you. Me and my three WordPress blogs (self hosted and one on Dreamhost) feel seen.

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      @dgerard oof. Too soon. Too soon.

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    Mullenweg’s plumbing levels of Posting Through It previously unknown to science

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