/u/kickme444 who have been running redditgifts, and have been running give-away events between users of reddit have also been fired, most notably the secret santa. He did a TedX talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoUVH05kEg
It is an interesting move to lay-off your employees that are closest to the end-users, I hope reddit will survive their internal struggles.
It's sort of like a dream of every good employee that works for a shit CEO though. Perhaps there is some cosmic justice here and something that will be more common in the future. Where individuals are valued more and the leaders held my to account for all their tiniest failures. You know almost exactly the opposite of how reality works these days, where sociopath CEOs and founders ride on the coat tails of hard working employees and dump them when they've outlived their usefulness.
Please clarify this point as your slander changes direction at light speed. Is Reddit '50 racist neck beards' or 'all the little shits on the internet'?
The firing of the key employee may of been stupid, but not deserving of some of the hatred being gleefully promoted across Reddit. Trying to get her photo coming up for searches of Hitler, commenting on her physical appearance, all the horrible little shits on the internet are coming out in droves over this.
The petitions opening (and longest) paragraph is idiotic and attempts to assassinate her characters and it's sad that "censoring" a community promoting hatred of obese people is something that motivates people to take democratic action.