Can we still not like people and say it? Is it still ok to say that we don't get along with someone, that we're happy to not work with them anymore without having it cataloged as "hate speech"? Just because I don't validate your beliefs, or your ankle tattoo or your pink hair cut or where you spend your vacation doesn't mean that I hate you! I just disagree with you, get the F over it.
And the whole "He commented as a Mozilla employee so that's not ok" is BS. Are they gonna start a witch hunt for all the commenters on HN and Glassdor who speak about what it really is to work there?
Wasn't there some outrage a while ago when an employer decided that they didn't want to financially help their employees use contraceptive or abortion? Based on what you are saying it was their right to push their beliefs down their employees' throat. Maybe they should have fired the employees who didn't fully embrace their values too.
Did this employee ever misbehave with the person who left? Did the fact that he/she didn't embrace her belief get in the way of his/her work? I doubt it, otherwise the comment wouldn't have triggered this whole thing.
Most people are grown ups, and can be around and collaborate with other people who don't necessarily fully agree with them.
You do not, then, even approximately understand the comment.
There's a pretty big excluded middle between, on the one hand, fully embracing one's employer's values, and, on the other, publicly, forcefully, and vitriolically propounding one's hatred for working with particular individuals and wide classes of people within one's industry.
Sure!
But calling them "batshit insane", "asshole" "the industry will be relieved with this class of people gone" in public goes a bit further than that, though.
The outrage at those comments is quite surreal. I can't fathom for the life of me, why would the CEO of a company (and the commenters on the thread) would spend so much energy at being outraged by a RANDOM INTERNET COMMENT.
That. shit. is. INSANE.
But of course to the perpetually offended, no problem is too small or trivial not to be blown out of proportion.
How is that not what Mozilla is doing?
Or do you mean, only those people who are "perpetually offended" by things you agree with, rather those "perpetually offended" by the things that you too are "perpetually offended" by?
When the smoke clears, the rest of us shake our heads and move on to the real work because we don't let our knee jerk emotions rule over every aspect of our lives.