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Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards

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The mob got what it wanted.

What a shame...

It started as a childish joke but she was right to complain to PyCon if she felt uncomfortable by this. Instead she decided to publicly shame the men and that is too far.

The guy who made the joke shouldn't have been fired from his job. And she should have apologised to him when she heard he got fired. Now a DDOS has gotten her fired, too...

The irony is that the status quo hasn't been affected at all. Nobody re-evaluates their opinions. There are still extremely politically correct people, there are still people that don't want to make a fuss, there are still people that feel persecuted, and there are still outright sexist/bigoted people.

edit; I hope the mob settles down and that both her and the developer that was fired soon find new employment.

These articles keep disappearing from the front page. I wonder if they're being caught up in some sort of upvoting-too-fast detection or if it's manual intervention?

While we generally are sensitive and confidential with respect to employee matters, the situation has taken on a public nature.... As we continue to process the vast amount of information,...

I don't think you're supposed to actually say that firing her was a knee-jerk reaction.

What a monster cockup that all turned out to be. Instead of some minor embarrassment for saying something silly two people are now out of work.

When an overreaction is met with an overreaction, does the threat of mutually assured destruction solve anything?

Is this the nuclear option in the war of the sexes?

This is just an "Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind" over and over again.

Don't we all have more important things to do than watch fools tweet pictures and sip the corporate koolaid.

The best thing in the world that could happen right now would be for Adria and the two gentlemen from PyCon to start a company together. Why? Because it would be the biggest PR story around, they'd get great traction; all they need is an idea!!

But in all due seriousness; who works in HR at these companies? I would be expecting a lawsuit if I were SendGrid and perhaps rightfully so.

Now two people are out of a job because they chose to act like 13 y.olds

A slap in the wrist for both involved should be sufficient, but apparently only 'tough' measures are ok?

For those of us who had no idea what this was about: http://www.dailydot.com/society/pycon-dongle-joke-misogyny-s...

I know it should not, but somehow it makes me feel better.

I wonder if you could re-create this whole debacle in 3 months with fake people; you could use your post-mortem to tell people that you faked them out and announce your startup PR firm.

Oh the irony of everyone involved being ~shafted~.

what a fucking mess.

this has made everyone look bad.

Awesome. Great on the company's part not to tolerate this puerile shit from an employee.

How about firing that man or woman who fired first developer?

Good job everyone. You made a bad situation worse. This makes me want to puke.

Sigh. The internet can be a dark place. She overreacts, people get fired, internet bullying and threats, now she gets fired. I feel a net karma loss for everyone involved.

Let's hope this never happens again...

Poor decisions all around.

Seems kind of fishy that they'd announce her being fired with a FB post.

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