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Basecamp is a well known tech company (if you travel in those circles), primarily for their project management tools and also as the genesis of Ruby on Rails.

This is a full-throated denunciation of the woke culture by its owners/founders.

They’re being attacked across social media by the usual suspects, but also finding support.

They’re putting their business interests first.

Let this be the start of a tsunami.

1 posted on 04/27/2021 7:09:57 PM PDT by IncPen
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I’d work for these people in a red hot heartbeat.

L


2 posted on 04/27/2021 7:13:15 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. , )
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Wow! That’s great.


4 posted on 04/27/2021 7:24:34 PM PDT by House Atreides
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Wow, that is an AMAZING and POSITIVE letter to employees. It sounds like a great company with excellent leadership and a good place to work.


6 posted on 04/27/2021 7:30:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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Sounds like they know things are going to get REALLY BAD under Biden, so they don’t their people discussing just that - fine to hate Trump, but Biden/Harris is off limits for hatred.


7 posted on 04/27/2021 7:34:05 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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Well-stated.


9 posted on 04/27/2021 7:38:25 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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bfl


10 posted on 04/27/2021 7:39:09 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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I am shocked. In such a good way. I can’t imagine how happy some of the ‘worker bees’ are....not to have to navigate the ever changing, ever more ridiculous WOKE guidelines, Maoist struggle sessions, memos of the new rules on Word Speak. God Damn! That is great.


11 posted on 04/27/2021 7:39:31 PM PDT by Pigsley
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Sounds like a sensible company to work for.


13 posted on 04/27/2021 7:44:26 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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It’s interesting that the Communist-style BS that’s been foisted on our whole culture refers to itself as “woke-ism”; when I read something like this, I get the very refreshing sensation that parts of our culture and society are “waking up” from a really, really bad nightmare.

Hope this goes mega-viral.

And I ain’t takin’ no stinkin’ vaccine, neither.


14 posted on 04/27/2021 8:18:18 PM PDT by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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We need more standing up to stupidity and denouncing woke PC bulls#it for what it is.


15 posted on 04/27/2021 8:27:08 PM PDT by bigbob
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About time to see some companies making change! Cheers to them!


16 posted on 04/27/2021 8:49:55 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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Like a spell being lifted. It would be interesting to know what exactly caused the change of heart. Did somebody in their upper tier read a Jordan Peterson book or something?


17 posted on 04/27/2021 9:14:43 PM PDT by Yardstick
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A refreshing perspective in these “woke” times with a throwback to when “the business of business is business” rather than trying to be everything to everybody. I’d go to work there with only one qualm in the paragraph about committees being a thing of the past.

It makes reference to “DEI work” (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) returning to HR. I’d prefer to see a full-on denunciation of DEI as a legitimate function with more of an endorsement of the themes in the rest of the letter where work is done organically because it has relevance to the company function. DEI will occur organically because the company gets the best people to deliver the best work to the customer and it does not matter one whit how those people look to outsiders.


18 posted on 04/28/2021 4:22:40 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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