Tell HN: Please Stop Submitting “An Open Letter to My CEO”

13 points·minimaxir··8 comments

It was discussed yesterday, yet there are still tons of submissions being made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086

The CEO did reply to it, and that might be the end of it: https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/701091286325985280

Medium links apparently do not play well with the HN dupe detector since they append an unique identifier at the end of the URL.

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Maybe we should blame the medium rather than the messenger?

That last sentence is critical.

I was skeptical when it went through and created a new submission. I should have searched.

Can we submit that she is fired? Another classy move by Yelp

That happened pretty soon after the original submission.

I'm really struggling to think of a company that wouldn't fire an employee for writing a widely shared blog personally attacking the CEO for not being more forthcoming with solutions to her own personal finance misjudgements, complete with suggestions that any idiot could get more money working for CVS and she didn't really want to be in customer support anyway.

I mean, I'm sure she's fundamentally right that Yelp isn't particularly high on the list of attractive entry level opportunities in SF and buried beneath the invective might be a couple of genuine issues with their operations. But even as someone whose approach to questioning management decision-making was once described as "approaching my career the way a lemming approaches a cliff" I wouldn't have written a letter like this without intending to be fired for it.

Yeah I just posted but saw about 2 more as a scrolled down. Will delete mine now.

Anyone know why Medium do that / what the identifier is for?

It is a way to track users without using tracking cookies.

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