[olliej]

It's always amazing to me to see people bad mouthing their former employers in this way. Either you're burning bridges or you're not, and this kind of comment seems like a "you won't be employed there again" comment, but if you're going to do that why hold back?

[aaomidi]

Honestly, if your first reaction to someone doing this is to never hire them again, you’re going to surround yourself with people that will never tell you when you’re fucking up.

[SilverBirch]

There's a difference between constructive and necessary feedback delivered discretely, and destructive unnecessary feedback deliverd in public. Do you think this public statement is going to be more effective than a serious considered conversation with senior management before he left? I don't think so. What purpose does making this public serve other than to try and raise his own profile?

[aaomidi]

Yes actually. If you believe that your management chain is ignoring you, in a public company you’re looking out for the shareholders by making a case for ineffective management.

I’m not saying that’s happening here. But you asked for what purpose does making this public serve.

[SilverBirch]

He doesn't work there any more, he doesn't have an obligation to the share holders and publicly trashing management is as likely to lower the share price as to raise it.

[aaomidi]

Okay? But it’s a signal that something is going wrong.

They have a right to express how they feel about the company. They don’t owe anyone niceness.

[olliej]

Corporations aren't people and if you bad mouth the company, especially in a way that gets press attention, someone in HR will put a mark on your record. Either a no hire, or a "requires executive approval", neither is helpful in future job applications. That said I didn't realize this was apparently a VP position, and execs live in their own consequence free world.

[aaomidi]

Which is my point. This way of thinking is the beginning of the end for any company that does it.

[gowld]

He's a VP. They have nothing for him. He's telling them the price if they want him back.