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If you’re talking about this one, I just read it.

https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...

When I read that, I see business leaders who engaged for months then asked people to move on when they realized it was never going to go away.

Searching the chat logs and posting in front of everybody was a jerk move for an executive, absolutely.

Everything else seems entirely reasonable.

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Same here, read it when it was posted elsewhere in this thread with an implication of “this’ll show you how basecamp management’s in the wrong” and that was the only part that stood out to me as wrong in their handling of this. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, as I read on, but it never did.

I read that as well, and even read the open letter that was included in that post. Seems like maybe Basecamp is better off without those employees who've decided to quit.

Just from the open letter (https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-...) take a look at the kind of attitudes they have; these are some serious snowflakes:

    "As you know, I am writing this while on medical leave from Basecamp, a condition that was necessary in large part because of the extreme emotional duress I have experienced as an employee at the company."

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