This is so bad. The worst of us all, but fun to read about the brinksmanship. The worst line for me was:
“From the founders' perspective, they had a clear stop-loss in place if things didn't work out” with the “stop-loss” being that “[t]he React site would be functional and performant in 6 weeks, and ship in 10. If it didn't, I would step down and recruit a replacement.” It’s just such a horrible thing to put on people, and is in no way a real stop loss.
So things failed, and now we lost our chief engineer, and who knows if they will “recruit a replacement” when they are either gone or on their way out, and recruiting leadership can take so long it’s such a crapshoot. THAT is a “clear stop-loss” to this person? Big oof.
It’s just such bad framing and bad ultimatums and bad people all around that I feel like I’m watching trash tv — and I love it.
“From the founders' perspective, they had a clear stop-loss in place if things didn't work out” with the “stop-loss” being that “[t]he React site would be functional and performant in 6 weeks, and ship in 10. If it didn't, I would step down and recruit a replacement.” It’s just such a horrible thing to put on people, and is in no way a real stop loss.
So things failed, and now we lost our chief engineer, and who knows if they will “recruit a replacement” when they are either gone or on their way out, and recruiting leadership can take so long it’s such a crapshoot. THAT is a “clear stop-loss” to this person? Big oof.
It’s just such bad framing and bad ultimatums and bad people all around that I feel like I’m watching trash tv — and I love it.