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jadedog  ·  2828 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit is still in Turmoil

That article is horrible. It's like back office gossip with all the names replaced with "sources". That it was written on anything more than toilet paper or someone's personal journal is amazing to me. As lurid gossip, it kept my attention. But it wasn't very illuminating.

There's no substantiation for pretty much anything. The whole article is incredibly vague. It's difficult to tell which employees were laid off and which left voluntarily. The employees leaving voluntarily could have left for any number of reasons. But she lumped them all together when she claimed that there's an atmosphere of being with an abusive boyfriend, which was claimed by one anonymous source.

If the atmosphere was really that bad, it should have been possible to find ex-employees who were claiming the same thing but were now in better jobs. If she had been able to show that, it would have been a more credible article.

The number of visitors by month at the end of the article didn't really say much. It was all just written in a way that implied negativity, even when the numbers were trending positive.





oyster  ·  2828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying but I would really caution against trashing a former employer in an article that will be easily searchable so I could understand why even ex-employees would avoid attaching a name to that. No potential new employer will like finding that and having a new job at the time of the article doesn't mean they won't be searching again some day soon.

jadedog  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because employees and ex-employees are unlikely to speak out against their employers, when they do, an article is noteworthy. That's the reason this article is not noteworthy.

When an article has enough substantiation with names, dates and quotes, management of any company is forced to respond. Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon was forced to respond with this response in August 2015 when an article with facts, names, dates and pictures of ex-employees appeared that claimed that workers at Amazon are overworked. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

Nothing in this article requires a response by Reddit because the claims are not backed by anything substantial.

oyster  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I never said otherwise, I know why an article would like to name sources.