Thread by @nullvoxpopuli

Today I was let go from @CrowdStrike because I was standing up for people too afraid to speak up.

If you have any #EmberJS jobs where you're interested in moving to Glint / gjs/gts (Basically Polaris before it's out), lemme know

They're reasoning: I was now considered an "insider threat"

For a security company this a serious business, however their evidence for coming to this conclusion was the following:

In April of 2022, I recommended to co-workers, per IT recommendation to me over slack, to move their code to a folder outside their HOME directory so that the backup software had less to do. As with JS projects, there are tons of tiny files and this stresses backup software.

The code is already backed up in bitbucket, so this is in compliance with the "everything must be backed up and restorable" policy.

Second, over the past week the company released a "Return to Office Policy" which many remote employees were furious with.
The policy is phrased in a way that made returning to the office seem mandatory - people associate mandatory with possibility for punishment upon violation

Yesterday, there was a Q&A with leadership where they explained that the policy is actually optional, but they won't change the phrasing.

Lots of people were more mad after the Q&A than before.

In slack, in the #waterheater channel, lots of folks were letting off steam to help cope with the new policy.

I had encouraged folks to do the inverse of the policy, since that's what leadership *means*, even though it's not what they *wrote*.

There was also someone who said something about Malicious Compliance, and, me, being a person of the internet, and familiar with the fun subreddit: reddit.com/r/MaliciousCom…
said, "Malicious Compliance is the best Compliance".

lots of things were said in #waterheater over the past week, but that's the main thing they cherry-picked.

These 3 things are the reasons they used to make me not a problem anymore.

I was not given a chance to defend myself, or explain context

Nor was leadership willing to admit that the policy is worth updating the phrasing of

If they had just updated the policy's mandatory phrasing - be more encouraging, and welcoming, all of this would have been avoided

So now, more people will be afraid to speak up.

People who voiced concerns to me over the past week have already started updating their resumes.