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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

404media:

In the aftermath of an LGBT hate incident, the then-CEO of cloud computing giant Digital Ocean told upset staff his mentor was a member of the KKK as an attempt to explain why they must bend their values because "we love the company"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

It somehow gets worse. These people think values are interchangeable with value.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Asking employees to "bend" their perfectly sensible values like "I don't like homophobes" or "members of the KKK suck" is insane to me, but exactly the sort of thing a tech CEO would think would resonate with his workers.

I stay at my job not because I have molded my soul into a perfect vessel for my companies values (which, TBH, kind of suck), but because I have a mortgage payment.

(Also as the header graphic points out, "love is at our core" and "inclusive environment" are apparently some of their values so maybe it's Digital Ocean which needs to bend to Digital Ocean's values).

At least there's a happy ending:

A month after the all-hands meeting, in August 2023, DigitalOcean announced that it was conducting a search for a new CEO, but did not say why.