{"id":14396,"date":"2021-05-01T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=14396"},"modified":"2021-05-01T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T17:16:38","slug":"this-thing-just-gets-more-entertaining-by-the-day-basecamp-the-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/01\/this-thing-just-gets-more-entertaining-by-the-day-basecamp-the-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"This Thing Just Gets More Entertaining by the Day \u2013 Basecamp \u2013 The Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

While enjoying the tweets of the various Basecamp employees that were virtue signaling their resignations, I came across a tweet by someone named Casey Newton who was commiserating with the brave golden parachutists who were flouncing into unemployment.\u00a0 Turns out he is a \u201creporter\u201d at the The Verge and he has written a breathless tell all expose<\/a> laying bare the sordid heart of \u201cBasecamp-Gate,\u201d as I like to call it.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve got to say the lameness of the whole thing is extraordinary.\u00a0 It started back in 2009.\u00a0 Now, that was back before the woke monster had terrorized all normal people into keeping their heads down and genuflecting to whatever golden idol had been thought up by the SJW\u2019s at work.\u00a0 Well, some computer geeks at Basecamp had been amusing themselves by going through the database of customers and picking out the names that were the funniest to their tenth-grade psyches.\u00a0 You can only imagine the hilarity, Seymour Johnson, Dick Steele, etc.\u00a0 Fast forward ten years and those employees are gone but the list surfaces and the SJW\u2019s spring into action.\u00a0 One of the geniuses points to an Anti-Defamation League incitement document that claims there is a \u201cpyramid of hate\u201d that provides a clear and inescapable escalation from school yard rank-out sessions all the way up to death camps.<\/p>\n

To their surprising credit the owners of Basecamp have spent an enormous amount of energy trying to smooth over this kerfuffle.\u00a0 Without dismissing the concerns of the always outraged SJW\u2019s they have steered a middle course of acknowledging the inappropriate nature of the joke but deciding that nothing terrible happened or would happen because of this incident and attempting to move on without the necessity of firing anyone or moving heaven and earth to change human nature.<\/p>\n

When the SJW\u2019s would have none of it, the owners took the action they did Monday and ended the company\u2019s involvement in social justice on the job.\u00a0 And the rest is history.\u00a0 From what Newton has written there were about twenty employees who were part of the DE&I council and had been politicking to expand their authority over everything from hiring to how Basecamp employees were allowed to socialize, to even which vendors the company hired.\u00a0 In other words, they were the SJW rabble-rousers looking to dictate what went on at Basecamp.\u00a0 And if we had the list of these twenty employees, I\u2019ll bit it matches up almost one to one with the employees leaving the company.<\/p>\n

So David Hansson, one of the owners, responded to the Verge post<\/a> with all the details of the funny name list \u201cinvestigation.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to say, based on their written words, these guys must be the calmest human beings alive.\u00a0 Everything is so measured and rational.\u00a0 Everything seems so moderate and reasonable.\u00a0 Even his stance on severance packages is more than decent.\u00a0 I mean these people resigning en masse is meant to be an assault on the viability of the company.\u00a0 And yet he discusses it in the friendliest of terms in his post.\u00a0 It\u2019s like having Ned Flanders as your CEO.<\/p>\n

With all the details now available it\u2019s more than apparent that what was done by management was a bold move to save the company from a very bad situation.\u00a0 When a third of the employees are attempting to subvert the CEO\u2019s control over all the most important decision-making functions in the company, well, having them quit en masse may be the best result you could possibly hope for.<\/p>\n

Basecamp has now provided a master class in how to rid your company of parasites.\u00a0 Anyone else who has the courage and the foresight should look to their example for inspiration and details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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