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A mature CEO would characterize the "not good reasons" engineers had for not onboarding.

I think most people would agree that engineers outright refusing to comply with what was asked of them would be a "not good" reason for not onboarding.

But Brian Armstrong is playing Strong CEO for the podcast circuit. So he can't admit that engineers were let go for potentially justifiable reasons. He has to leave room for speculation. Speculation that maybe some engineers were let go for trivial reasons, because Brian is tough, and tough Brian demands complaint employees.

The people who didn't comply because they were on vacation and then had to go to a Saturday meeting to explain themselves think Brian is something -- but I guarantee it's not that he's tough.

We've all seen this playbook before. This is the incredibly dumb, Idiocracy-emulating world in which we now live.