[cj]

I'm not sure what conclusions one can draw about the broader NPM culture by reading a single-sided Twitter thread from a disgruntled former employee tweeting about how he lost his job.

I only made it through the first ~10 tweets before clicking out, so maybe there's something I'm missing further in the thread. But to me, it just sounds like what you'd expect from someone being laid off.

It's a little weird that he didn't have a manager who would wish him well on his way out. But that's about it. The bit about a severance with a non-disparagement contract is absolutely standard, not out of the usual whatsoever (especially for a VC backed company like NPM).

[skissane]

His complaint seems to be, not that he was laid off, but that the way it was communicated to him was insensitive.

That's a very common thing, laying people off in an insensitive manner. Lot's of companies (even big massive successful companies) do that all the time.

That doesn't make it right, but, whatever the reasons their board had for letting go of their CEO, laying people off in an insensitive manner is unlikely to be among them.

[fharper]

Actually, it was also about the layoff itself, not just how it happened. At the beginning of the thread, I wasn't to shared details for legal reasons, but it became a NLRB case for union busting. See this article from The Register for more details https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_uni...

[fharper]

If you read a little more, you would have seen that it was a case of union busting (which is illegal) that was taken by NLRB. It is just part of what happened.

[fharper]

See

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies...

and

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/02/npm_abandons_settle...

[cj]

I don't see anything having to do with union busting, but I'm probably overlooking something.