Layoffs happen; these kind of whiny twitter rants aren't really helpful for anyone.
> so the lesson for me is that signs of success at work do not guarantee future rewards or even continued employment. i already knew this, but it's been useful to remember that i should never entirely trust a company, even if it seems like my goals and success are aligned w theirs
of course you can - that shouldn't be a surprise.
Firing someone specifically so they can't get the stock options without any notice is a dick move and I'm perfectly within my rights to criticize them for it.
I'm drawing some inferences here, but she's contrasting the perceived lack of support from the company for those affected by the npm layoffs with npm's public brand on the Internet. If layoffs happened and npm did the minimum legally required, that's a fair criticism to make, IMO. npm's hiring page says:
> We are responsible adults with diverse backgrounds and interests, who take our careers and our lives seriously. We believe that the best way to iterate towards success is by taking care of ourselves, our families, our users, and one another.
> We aim for a sustainable approach to work and life, because that is the best way to maximize long-term speed, while retaining clarity of vision. Compassion is our strategy.
@seldo (npm co-founder) frequently tweets about people in the community who he perceives are not performing to his moral standard.
I don't have any details, so I'm taking all of this with a grain of salt, but if it's true, it's something of a betrayal of their brand.
There’s nothing responsible or adult about that tweet. If she wasn’t affected by the lay offs, then she’s doing a huge disservice to the people who were laid off by associating them with a Twitter train wreck.
The adult thing to do would be to realize that “compassion is our strategy” is an empty platitude and that all companies exist to make money.
Just because someone lost their job doesn't mean an ex-colleague can't post about Netflix or their interests on their social media anymore. Twitter isn't an office space they can do what they want.
I get that Twitter must feel a lot more real to people who post 30 times a day, every day for 10+ years but to that majority of people it's just a silly distraction they use to post things to their friends, not a work environment.