[pocketsand]

Work for me or I will publicly shame you, try to damage your reputation, and make your employees potentially question your loyalty.

Threatening people if they don’t take a job with you is in the most literal way a challenge to your autonomy as a human being.

[tptacek]

I think a lot of this whole saga is easier to understand if you just remember that WordPress is a major open source project and a company, so you get to see a lot of the stuff every company --- almost none of whom run major open source projects --- does in the ordinary course of business.

Anyways, if you thought there was any freedom or purity to the tech job market, bad news for you.

[FireBeyond]

> Anyways, if you thought there was any freedom or purity to the tech job market, bad news for you.

Ahh, "everyone else does it" - no, have never been threatened that if I refuse a job offer, or otherwise decline, that my current employer will be told all about how disloyal I was to them.

[tptacek]

Hey, to be clear, I'm not sticking up for it, I'm just saying: commentary about this whole saga sometimes feels like people have lost some perspective, and are holding WordPress to a standard that pure commercial companies aren't held to. Hiring is ruthless! Executive hiring in particular!