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Thank the Gods it's paid leave, otherwise he would have had to start whittling away at his hundreds of millions of dollars.
He just needs to tighten his bootstraps around his neck, I mean tighter LMAO
This dude is exhibit A of money ruining everything it touches
No, that was JK Rowling.
She was awful before the money, money just made her able to do it more
Money doesn't corrupt, it just exposes.
It also corrupts, but by association with other rich assholes. But to get to that level, you need to have no morals.
Also money separates you from reality. These tech ceos often have entire wings of the headquarters to themselves, hidden behind private security. With only yes men left to talk to.
It does sometimes lead to good outcomes, like when Steve Jobs thought that a fucking insane diet would cure his (at the time) fairly treatable cancer.
lol the fact that he chose to bitch about it in the company Slack openly proves that the board was right to push him out, like what did he expect, that the remaining employees that haven’t been laid off yet will rally to support him, This guy has lost his marbles, the ones who took the $30,000 severance to quit must be very happy right now
I used to work at an international, where the CEO left to create a new startup.
The amount of people that worked in his office, that made glazing email all (yep all 2500 global workers) was astounding. In short, that guy was seen mostly as a joke in a large slew of the offices. Because he was so lost from reality.
But he had a cult following, because he was some kind of a name within a niche
not like he wasn’t just a fall guy for the board
don’t feel sorry for him but he’s just the face
He's absolutely the main antagonist, not a "fall guy" or "the face."
What about my comment makes you think I feel sorry for him lol
that was me saying i dont feel sorry for him
I bet a lot of people wish they could be put on paid leave.
For the last few years, Mullenweg has waged a divisive legal battle with WP Engine, sparing publicly with opponents and peers on social media and in his personal blog. In 2024, he made an “Alignment Offer,” giving Automattic employees who disagreed with his stances the option to take six months of pay or $30,000, whichever was higher, with the stipulation that they would lose access to their work logins that same evening and would not be eligible for rehire.
One hundred and fifty-nine people took the offer and left. He then made another buyout offer, and threatened employees who spoke to the press with termination, saying, “exit gracefully, or be fired tomorrow with no severance.”
Most recently, Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic.”
I hope he dies in a gutter.
I wonder what he'll build next, now that he has time for his own projects again. Obviously that's how to prove that Automattic wasn't just a fluke.
“We have asked Mark Davies to assume the interim CEO role while Matt is out.
Hopefully this new guy isn't an AI bro that will ruin WordPress
He needs to be ousted from the company full stop.
I don't actively develop websites in WordPress anymore but I do have several legacy WordPress sites still running, and I gotta say, WordPress has really lost the plot. The updated post editor is just awful, the php side of things is as much of a mess as it ever was, and it seems to be like mullenweg didn't really know what to do with wordpress.com or Tumblr for that matter.
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