Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by haberman on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:01AM (#31702568)

The petitioners publicly called for the ousting of senior executives, while airing confidential dirty laundry. The idea that this deserves to be met with a receptive and empathetic response is absurd. If you want collaboration, approach collaboratively. You might not get what you want, but at the end of the day, a company needs to be led by somebody, and I would much rather be led by a designated leader than by public pressure campaigns brought by whatever employees are most willing to escalate their grievances to the public square.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by tremon on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:04AM (#31704499)

Do you have backchannel information to suggest that the collaborative approach wasn't tried first? In my experience, going public never is the first step people take.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by haberman on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:31PM (#31705747)

I have no inside info about this, but it wouldn't change my opinion if there had been an internal ask first. It's a fact of life that sometimes you will lose the argument, and fail to convince others of your ideas, even when you care deeply. I have been there, and it sucks. At that point, you can chose to stay and live with it, or decide it's a dealbreaker for you and move on.

The third option -- to escalate the argument to the public square and enlist the public as allies -- is available, but think what would happen if everybody did this. In a company of thousands of people there will always be passionate disagreement. If companies tolerated this kind of public escalation, it would erode the trust that is necessary for any organization to operate. It would be its own kind of toxic culture.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by watwut on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:15AM (#31702626)

> while airing confidential dirty laundry

I mean, being silent about company dirty laundry is not exactly virtue.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by tomp on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:11PM (#31706103)

Nope.

If you're leaking about something that's genuinely concerning (criminal, or just very bad and immoral), by all means, leak it.

But this seems more of a leak to make some noise, to win an argument by public opinion. Nothing but a political stunt. Not very virtuous.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by ellipsesdots on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:13PM (#31706698)

I disagree.

It's not a political stunt. The people who haven't left clearly want to remain their for various reasons asides from the issues they expressed. It's an attempt from those employees to actually improve the company and address the issues they have.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by ummonk on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:03PM (#31707204)

It's a publicly traded company. The shareholders have a right to know if the company is being mismanaged, so they can take action to improve management of the company they own.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by haberman on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:53AM (#31702762)

There is a middle ground between saying nothing and raising it to the general public. The public square is a terrible place to litigate what are effectively unsourced, one-sided allegations.

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