There's a parallel timeline where he admitted he messed up, stepped down, hired a real CEO, put someone else in charge of the nonprofit, and the downward slide he caused started to reverse.

Haven't seen any public reporting on this yet, but from internal conversations this seems to include a 60% workforce reduction at Tumblr, which now only has a few remaining engineers.

I used to be a big admirer of Matt and Automattic, but after this whole WP Engine episode I've lost respect. I shut down my old wordpress blog, still working on importing the posts as org-mode files onto my new site, I no longer recommend WP to non-techies that ask me how to build a website.

I hope WordPress (and Automattic) turn the ship around but its not looking good at this point.

HR wranglers? Damn, that’s simultaneously hilarious and terrifying

>A comprehensive package covering severance pay and benefits.

What does this mean in term of monthly wages?

I was a technical lead for the Romanian branch of an US company. They fired me along with my team and other teams. The reason was they were profitable but they missed the ARR by a million or something. Last year they did the first firing round, this the second.

When they announced they will fire us, they also announced they will hire more sales people. The ratio of business people/tech people was already 7:1 before that. They also said a programmer should produce 5 times the money the company spent with him, and we were at 4 point something.

Now I have found a position at a local company which takes care of its people even in harder times.

"Either I'm an idiot, or something is going on that you don't understand. Let's check back in a month. :)"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1glejno/comment/...

...1 month later...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/64/wpengine-in...

Executive behaves like a child, labor suffers the consequences.

I wonder what this means for the future of Beeper.