Posted on 05/04/2021 3:02:31 AM PDT by USA Conservative
About one-third of the employees of software developer Basecamp have quit their jobs after the company’s founders asked them to focus on developing software, rather than get involved in politics at work.
Basecamp co-founder and CEO Jason Fried told employees that “every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant.”
“We make project management, team communication, and email software. We are not a social impact company,” Fried added, encouraging employees to focus on their jobs rather than politics while in the workplace.
Days later, “about one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts,” following “a contentious all-hands meeting,” according tech reporter Casey Newton.
Newton reported at Platformer that one employee told him, “we’re hired opinionated people, we’ve created opinionated software, and now basically the company has said, ‘well, your opinions don’t really matter — unless it’s directly related to business.'”
“A lot of people are gonna have a tough time living with that,” the employee added.
The situation escalated in December, after a new Basecamp hire reportedly volunteered to help the company work on “diversity issues.” The employee posted on a thread in the Basecamp software, seeking to find volunteers to start working on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues.
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They better not cave.
We’ll see more of people checking companies political policies in determining where they will work. This nation will continue to split.
All who quit should have a mark in their file, “Not for rehire”
The CEOs mistake was offering thr wokesters a buyout.
I would have paid them a month’s salary...to just move on and admit they can’t produce products in a capitalistic environment. I’d even write the quote on their acceptance paperwork.
Geez dude, all those caps are obliterating your message.
Great NO unemployment for any of them!
Good riddance. That can go work for Coca Cola or Major League Baseball.
I wonder if there’s more to this story than the political side. These employees didn’t just quit. The company PAID THEM TO LEAVE.
The Woke are using their postmodern ideas to fill that vacuum and the power of their belief is evinced by the willingness to act on it.
Hence, quit.
“A lot of people are gonna have a tough time living with that,” the employee added.
Boo hoo. They’re going to have a tougher time living without an income...but they’ll still have their mind-numb “woke” opinions to fill their bellies and keep them warm.
“I wonder if there’s more to this story than the political side. These employees didn’t just quit. The company PAID THEM TO LEAVE.”
Yeah that struck me too. As you suggest, there is likely more to the story.
After reading several descriptions of their software products, I still have no idea what their software does, or why anyone would buy it.
The linked article forgot to mention that Basecamp has just 34 employees.
So, 11 or 12 total employees asked for a buy out.
They could hire 11 or 12 H-1Bs in one day just by standing on the sidewalk with one of those arrow signs!
The CEO was kind enough to offer a buyout.
The NFL refuses to make its EMPLOYEES stand for the national anthem and in fact encourages racist rhetoric.
What a difference.
Good for Basecamp.
Yep.
I have a feeling that the reason management have done this is because productivity is way, way down. Management has discovered "Go woke, go broke" is a lot more than a slogan.
When an employee quits and goes on unemployment, the employer’s unemployment insurance rates go up and never come down again. That might be one factor.
well, your opinions don’t really matter — unless it’s directly related to business.’” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Spoken like a truly WOKE liberal fascist.
When you attempt to dictate your tyranny to an employer, it will not end well.
Your employer knows that his company depends on a free, unhindered capitalist economy. That’s why the employer would sooner be rid of you.
You WOKE baftards are a bunch of totalitarians who do not want myriads of competing ideas, you want one idea and lock step.Take it to the streets you idiots.
The toilet needed flushing.
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