On 4/5/14 5:46 PM, Doug Warner wrote:
Your company has shown they will force an employee to resign
Doug,
I believe you misunderstand what happened here.
What happened is that Brendan chose to resign. He did this because of
external pressure (which included nonstop harassment and death threats,
as I understand), not because of internal pressure for him to resign.
I agree that this getting to the point where he felt like he had to
resign for his sake, his family's, and the Mozilla project's (not in
that order, I suspect; knowing Brendan he would have put his family and
the Mozilla project ahead of himself) is completely unacceptable. But
if you must place blame for it, place it on the media's sensationalistic
and nearly fact-free reporting and the knee-jerk responses of people to
that reporting.
Can you imagine the uproar it would cause if an employee had been forced to
resign
because they supported gay marriage 6 years ago?
Yes. It would be much like what we're seeing right now, because both
situations are, imo, completely unacceptable. Assuming, that as in this
case the resignation were forced by a media circus and death threats and
the like.
Again, if you feel that you have to punish someone for their actions in
this, you may want to start with the Wall Street Journal for their
mendacious and unretracted article about board resignations, as well as
various other media outlets that didn't bother to fact-check anything
and went for page views over accurate reporting. But trying to punish
Mozilla for the actions of the media in this case is not going to be
very productive, unfortunately.
It is of course up to you which browser you choose to use, but I would
like you to stop, read
http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/ and
https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2 and perhaps reconsider your decision.
If you've read this far, thank you.
-Boris
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