Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term “Nazis” in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing
Roughly 200 employees have signed an open letter asking for answers — GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee … Source: Business Insider .
There's a pattern in tech company firings where an outspoken employee has a manager eager to take advantage of any situation to finally fire them. Then it blows up, because the reason was inappropriate/illegal, and leadership has to try and fail to cover everyone's asses. https:/…
A not very specific response from Microsoft (which owns GitHub) “We take all complaints of this nature very seriously. We are engaged with GitHub leadership to conduct this investigation.” https://twitter.com/...
In case you hit the paywall, it says that on January 6th “an employee at Microsoft-owned GitHub took to an internal Slack chat room to warn coworkers in the greater Washington DC area to ‘stay safe homies, Nazis are about,’ with a sad emoji.” https://twitter.com/...