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Oh and it won't be done until June 1st, so the employees can have some anxiety until then. As a treat.

I see a theme here...... :)

I didn't realize that. How sketchy and frustrating.

Why be responsible for your own actions when you can have everyone else be responsible for you?

That's fair. You definitely are NOT part of the problem at all and I should have been more clear and separated the two frustrations. I apologize for letting my emotions mislead and lumping you in as part of the problem.

They aren't telling us anything because of "privacy" concerns. Here is what the official response from Sid was:

"There was an article published in The Register today regarding the recent departures of female leaders from our company. There were multiple inaccuracies in the article. Because we value the privacy of our current and former employees, we do not discuss personnel issues publicly."

EDIT: the official response does go on to point to recent blog posts and other diversity "efforts" as well as ways to anonymously send in complaints or concerns.

Yeah pretty much. If you don't agree with the exec team, or otherwise to improve the situation you'll get the axe.

Yeah, this sounds about right. We're discussing it a lot internally and it doesn't look like much will happen. They are working to discredit the register, saying it is inaccurate. Although they won't explain what exactly is inaccurate about it. Jamie even commented on here that they aren't being honest even about why she was fired (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231548).

At this point the legitimacy of my account has even been called into question internally. It certainly seems like they are interested in discrediting everyone they possibly can. We wouldn't want anyone to actually be moved to action or anything.

It used to be welcomed for anyone in the company to discuss these things. That is still in our values that anyone and anything can be questioned that can be seen here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#anyone-and-anythin...

That isn't entirely true anymore since there is a strong fear of retaliation, so many have chosen to stay quiet.

You're totally correct. It is such a hard decision tbh and one I often think about, especially after the past few weeks. Would losing my job for trying to do the right thing be worth it? Could I even make it happen? Are there other GitLab team members out there thinking the same way that would be willing to stand with me? Its kinda overwhelming honestly, but I do absolutely agree.

Honestly, I so very much appreciate you saying this. We have so little recourse to discuss these things. I've talked to everyone I feel safe talking to internally at this point and it seems the execs are just running wild. Clearly they aren't even listening to their legal team. It is nice for someone to offer a sympathetic ear, truly.

Absolutely. I think this is one of the strongest things keeping people here. The golden handcuffs. Everything sucks, but our situation is unique. Many positions have lots of personal freedom such as flexible working hours. You can work from wherever, you can travel. That's hard to leave.

I've considered this as well. They can't fire you but they'll find a way. See what happened to some of the Kickstarter people for example.

We have to manually skip posts by random people.

Nah, we did decide to not hire them. The issue blew up before we merged the change. As far as I can tell we are going to continue with the policy.

Can confirm, transparency is rapidly degrading internally too.

I've thought about this a lot. We could, but we are all literally terrified for our jobs and of retaliation.