Reports say one-third of Basecamp employees
exit in the wake of new company etiquette
ZDNet,
by
Asha Barbaschow
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/2/2021 11:36:13 PM
Last Monday, Chicago-based software firm Basecamp issued a statement that said it was making a number of changes, including a ban on political discussions on its company Basecamp account.
"Today's social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant," the company said. "You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target."
The changes were touted as a "new etiquette regarding societal politics"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 5/2/2021 11:38:51 PM (No. 773708)
Workplace efficiencies achieved through the mechanism of careful woke reflection and self-selection.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/2/2021 11:43:41 PM (No. 773709)
Excellent way to get resignations from troublemakers in the workplace.
33 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
LadyVet 5/2/2021 11:44:16 PM (No. 773711)
No doubt the other 66% were happy to see them go. No more moral preening and virtue signaling to distract from business. Teamwork will probably improve tremendously.
34 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vesicant 5/3/2021 12:39:05 AM (No. 773731)
Millennials = Thousand year stupid. "Pay me for talking libterd politics on company time -- it's muh hipster right."
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
john56 5/3/2021 12:39:37 AM (No. 773732)
If I had to work in Chicago, I'd quit too.
11 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
chase9365 5/3/2021 1:29:48 AM (No. 773757)
Might have to buy some stock in this company that actually treats its business like a BUSINESS. Do your job and keep your opinions to yourself.
18 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/3/2021 7:11:43 AM (No. 773820)
I have a couple Grandkids, College Grads, class of 2020, still hanging around home hoping and wishing for a job. Maybe they could apply. They live in the Chicago Burbs where people have no problem commuting. But wait! That would mean getting up early, EEK! Then driving 40 minutes, working ALL day, driving 40 minutes home and really not seeing any "ME" time in this scenario! Hmmm Maybe I will pass! Don't really need money anyway, have free living quarters where mom does my laundry, has delicious meals on the table, gives me gas money so I can meet my friends at Starbucks....Life is good! Good luck to the Owner of this company finding Young People who really want a JOB!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
worried 5/3/2021 7:50:11 AM (No. 773850)
My son used to have that same problem getting new hires, #7. He would hire a young person and they would show up for work four days, and then take Friday off for a long weekend. I asked him if it bothered him to have to fire people, and he said at first, but after the first dozen or two it no longer did. That was quite a few years ago, but I see things haven't changed that much.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/3/2021 8:03:11 AM (No. 773861)
Gotta love high-tech jabberwocky!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
janjan 5/3/2021 8:35:51 AM (No. 773901)
A very effective way to clean house. A lot of parents are going to have their basements turned into free living quarters by these geniuses who quit their jobs. Good luck to them.
4 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Laotzu 5/3/2021 8:36:19 AM (No. 773902)
I find the "Best Names" list funny. I review personal data daily and its impossible to ignore the fact that Black Americans' names are largely onomatopoeia with a French prefixes or suffixes. Alternatively, they give their girls stripper names. Saw a family once that named its twin daughters with the same first name, but spelled it differently.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Cindiana 5/3/2021 9:06:26 AM (No. 773933)
Please take the time to read the article. It will make you feel there are glimmers of hope out there in the corporate world. The introduction of the new company policy, backed up with very generous "outs" for those slackers and troublemakers who are toxins in the workplace, is an ingenious model that other leaders can and should follow. Corporations small and large should not be breeding grounds for employees who don't want to be team players, or who use their employe'rs investment as a free space for doing social justice advocacy. So brilliant, and BRAVE.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 5/3/2021 9:26:40 AM (No. 773965)
Ha, number 11...one woman was asked why she named her child 'Exit'...and she replied 'dat' was the first sign I saw coming out a da delibery room'...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
D S Craft 5/3/2021 10:53:26 AM (No. 774053)
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
texaspast 5/3/2021 11:10:21 AM (No. 774070)
As to the Best Names thing in the article: I teach a college class that is an intro to a profession. One of the first things I teach them about looking for a job is to get an email address that doesn't look like a high school freshman on the make made it up, so that when you correspond with potential employers, they don't judge you based on your email address. . I collected examples of former students' 'not professional' email names such as tricknasti503, stansally-67, baybegyrl401, Emawee20, flwrchik94, milfguinn3, hottiesharyn24, alcpunkprincess . . . and the list goes on!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/3/2021 12:15:44 PM (No. 774138)
I was talking to the owner of a company last week, and he told me that one of his employees quit because he "could make more from unemployment than working." Turns out the employee was an apprentice learning a trade and had some hours to go before he earned journeyman wages. So he left with no chance of being rehired, and no references. Way to go dude. BTW - journeyman wages start at $30/hour.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/3/2021 12:16:49 PM (No. 774141)
Why are they paying severance packages to snowflake employees who dislike the policy change? If this change is so morally repulsive to them, they should leave for free! These coddled snowflake adult children are not used to being told what to do or how to behave at work. Work is just a big social scene where they get to drink their Starbucks and wear too small cardigans and manbuns. They work in an artificial environment insulated from the real world. I would love to see one of these people work one day on a steel factory or as an oil rig worker.
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