by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
So one third of Basecamp workers quit because they couldn’t be “woke” on company time and get paid for it?
About one-third of employees at software company Basecamp quit days after bosses told them to keep ideology out of the workplace and focus on the company’s actual business.
“We make project management, team communication, and email software,” CEO Jason Fried wrote April 26. We don’t have to solve deep social problems, chime in publicly whenever the world requests our opinion on the major issues of the day, or get behind one movement or another with time or treasure. These are all important topics, but they’re not our topics at work.”
Good.
That’s exactly correct of Jason Fried, and if the staff doesn’t like it then quitting means no unemployment for you, and those people can go take their anchors with which they destroy their productivity somewhere else.
When I ran MCSNet we had a very simple policy: You’re here to advance the interests of the company. You do not set policy as an employee, you follow it. If you have a problem with this then the door is right over there and you’re welcome to use it — once.