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sure, but did the CEO have to do it? And if the CEO was to respond, shouldn't "not true, you were fired" be enough? No need to call him incompetent and lazy (even if he is). That's the part that rubbed me the wrong way, especially since the guy didn't actually trash reddit as bad as they did to him.

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If you read the rest of the thread, he was doing a fair bit of trashing the company, management, etc

I don't know, even still it's not really sitting well with me how the CEO handled it

This is an ugly affair, like firings always are. Perhaps an "official" response was necessary to "manage the narrative" as someone above commented, but I can't help but agree that the mud is rubbing off on the CEO here, mainly because of the tone. Badly handled.

I didn't say that. I said it wasn't vindictive.

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