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by _w4wc 1466 days ago
Someone said:

A generally apathetic and sometimes condescending attitude from the CPO, COO, and Chief People Officer

Which you replied to with a very apathetic and condescending:

Second, if you have no confidence in the execs or CEO of a company then why are you working at that company? Quit and find a company to work at that you believe in!

This is a very amateurish response, and honestly I'm expecting better from some exec of a publicly traded company. You should have used this as an opportunity to make your employees believe they made the right choice, share how Coinbase is always (supposed to be) looking for new ways to improve, and how there are more appropriate channels for this kind of feedback.

Instead you let your ego get in the way, shared some childish tweets (that you'll probably regret soon), and alienated the majority of your employees.

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>Which you replied to with a very apathetic and condescending

Well, he did say he felt offended that he wasn't included in the list.

>You should have used this as an opportunity to make your employees believe they made the right choice

Brian is doing that here. Except he is appealing to the employees that aligns with him and his choice of people for exec leadership. You seem to assume that a vast majority of the employee base agrees with the petitioner, and Brian seems to assume that a vast majority agrees with his PoV.

There are a lot of people that agree with the petitioner, but employees aren’t given an open forum to talk about internal problems. If you talk about things that are wrong too much with your manager, you get marked down for not being positive. There’s no “free speech” internally and it is a pretty oppressive environment in that it doesn’t feel safe to express yourself to anyone.
Was Coinbase the company that paid-off employees to leave when it implemented the "no politics at work" policy? I had my suspicions that this would result in chilling /suppression of dissent as "politics".
nah that was DHH's company. I honestly forget what it was called. yo?
Coinbase followed suit and Brian heavily praised DHH for it on Twitter.
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