[trevorcreech]

If you read the rest of the thread, he was doing a fair bit of trashing the company, management, etc

[TheOsiris]

I don't know, even still it's not really sitting well with me how the CEO handled it

[vegabook]

This is an ugly affair, like firings always are. Perhaps an "official" response was necessary to "manage the narrative" as someone above commented, but I can't help but agree that the mud is rubbing off on the CEO here, mainly because of the tone. Badly handled.