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If you are a founder/exec tweeting about how Basecamp is the worst company ever and did not first share your company handbook in fine-grained detail, please delete your tweet and try again
Most sections of the Basecamp announcement vary from disappointing to terrible, but it& #39;s important to note that many tweeters about it have not found magical solutions for these issues at their own workplaces and are throwing stones from very glass houses
HR stuff is difficult and while it can be good to all gather around and point out when an abomination happens, it would genuinely be helpful to see even 1 link to a better set of policies for every 50 angry tweets I& #39;ve seen this evening.
I am 100% confident that many of the people mad at BC right now do not have a coherent policy in place that explains what to do if someone posts "MAGA" in the company chat.
Also — lest this thread brand me a techbro apologist — these policy changes, particularly the decision to not throw the brand& #39;s weight behind issues of social and moral import, are a huge disappointment from a company I have always looked up to, most of all for BEING outspoken.
And there is a severe dissonance between this decision from Jason and David to say that ones& #39; personal choices/opinions are wholly separate from work, and their long history of personally authoring books that are completely about, and promoted by, their place of work.
I hope to write about all this in more detail at some point, along with — importantly — how I these things have been thought about at our own company. I hope other leaders tweeting about their discontent right now (or even threatening to unsubscribe) will do the same.
