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> On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee.

What an absurdly passive corporate euphemism for GitHub wrongfully firing one of their employees.

I don't know if I'd read that much into it. It's possible that the employee was asked to resign for severance instead of getting fired outright, and Github just wants to make sure they're being accurate. After all, the rest of the post makes it pretty clear they acknowledge their mistake.

Saying they coerced the employee to resign would be accurate too then. The euphemism isn't needed.

Wasn't there a similar, but different euphemism used in the Google vs the histrionic AI researcher? I try to remember, but can't. Yet.

I think that with google she resigned. She offered her resignation if her demands were not met.

She proposed discussing a resignation date if her conditions weren't met. Google fired her immediately.

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