Comment on Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech

NormandyEssex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Article explains it:

  Shortly after Arison was hired as CEO in October, Twitter users unearthed tweets he’d written expressing support for conservative politicians, many of whom had expressed anti-LGBTQ+ views. Robin was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt after he told staff he would change, but says the recent alleged union busting has broken that trust.

  They hired a rightwingers as CEO, and even if he changed his mind on social policy, he’s still obviously a Republican on fiscal.

  This is a way to get rid of highly paid people since the labor pool for tech ballooned after twitter fired everyone.

  He’s hoping for a short dip, then replacing everyone for cheaper salaries.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jesus. The CEO of Grindr is a supporter of homophobes. We truly are in the worst timeline.

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    • Daqu@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He googled “how to fuck the gays” and grindr was the top result.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. Grinder is a trash company now. I think it was even owned by a company in China for a while, which is just weird.

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      • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Seems like it would just be a useful database for blackmailing a bunch of closeted guys.

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  • NormandyEssex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah that seems reasonable. RTO is quite a powerful/interesting tool for these employers

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• Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The second part, I think people don’t pick up on that often enough. These return to office pushes are soft layoffs. They get to do a layoff without paying severance or even unemployment.

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

    You’d think hiring someone fully remote then changing the terms of the job would qualify but I m only a bird lawyer.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While this is true, they also don’t get to have as much control and who leaves.

    Normally when you do layoffs you strategically keep the people on who were best for the company.

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    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Corporate culture these days seems to value people who will eat shit and smile, not expect raises and not quit when they should above most other metrics… so they do keep the people “best” for the company.

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• gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can only guess they wanted to punish the unionizers or just do a major layoff without calling it a layoff.

  Maybe, but this way you have no control on who leave, which probably are the people you would like to keep since they are the most valuable people you have and being good they could find a job that accomodate their WFH request.

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