Chicago’s Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions – TechCrunch

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5 years ago

Heard they didn’t want to do business with a client. When your employees decide who you can do business with because of politics, it’s a path to insolvency.

Rick
5 years ago

Good the boorish snowflakes that annoy everyone are gone, now the company can get down to business. Constant political speech and opinion from a coworker is no different than any form of harassment. When a lefty at work starts coming at me every day with their crap, I call HR, no lie.

debtsor
5 years ago
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Apparently nearly all, if not all, the employees who poasted on twitter that they were leaving had pronouns in their Twitter bio. So, really, it’s kind of genius what this CEO did. Last year the Supremes ruled you can’t fire someone for their gender identity (treeself, they, it); but if you get them to voluntarily quit……

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