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by emehrkay 4003 days ago
To me it seems clear that they've decided to dislike Ellen ( they have sub dedicated to portraying her as Hitler, for fucks sake). So whenever her administration makes a mistake their reaction is going to be bloody murder.

Yeah firing the woman without a backup plan for the scheduled AMAs or whatever else was going on was a mistake. But what does someone have to do in order to be fired in that manor? Are we to assume that Reddit didn't understand the woman's daily duties and what affect her immediate/un-planned absence from the company would be? We don't know why the woman was let go, could had been worth the potential of missing a few scheduled AMAs (or even this backlash).
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fnordfnordfnord 4003 days ago
>they have sub dedicated to portraying her as Hitler, for fucks sake

Hadn't seen that one. /r/PaoYongYang is good for a few chuckles though.

>But what does someone have to do in order to be fired in that manor?

Casting aspersions as to the character of /u/chooter AKA Queen Victoria is risky, and also not in particularly good taste.

>Are we to assume that Reddit didn't understand the woman's daily duties and what affect her immediate/un-planned absence from the company would be?

I've seen corporate types make what appear to be uninformed decisions which turned out to be unwise.

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celticninja 4003 days ago
regardless of the reasons for the firing there definitely did not appear to be a backup plan in place with regard to her AMA responsibilities.

A plan has appeared now and they seem to be portraying it as being in place prior to the firing but it seems haphazard and if it was in place it was not communicated to the people who would need to use it (AMA mods) in time for it to prevent any disruption.

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