Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO
Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation
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And this is literally why people like myself hide my cancer from my employer.
US discrimination laws are a fucking joke.
I don't know about that. He took like four months off for cancer treatment. And he's going to need to take more off for more treatment. Not sure how you can hide that from your employer.
3 months. End of October to start of February. It shouldn't matter though. How long should he have worked there before he's allowed to? Like if he was CPO for five years and then got cancer, would that have been OK? At what point does it become not ok?
Also he's got history there and this promotion was due to that. I think they just expected from him to take the reigns on some stuff and then wasn't there because of the cancer treatment which is 100% understandable. Mozilla isn't going to collapse in 3 months.
On the day Teixeira returned to his job, it's claimed, he was instructed to lead a company-wide layoff of 50 people, 40 of whom were in his MozProd organization.
That's just shit management from above. That is pure retaliation.
Aren't you allowed to provide a doctor's note that does not specify the ailment?
FMLA. But that's unpaid.
After you spend down your allotted PTO, yes.
Mildly surprised that someone in a position at that level wouldn’t have at minimum short term disability coverage, at least as an option. It’s hardly expensive.
I've actually heard it the other way: if your employer knows you have cancer or other disability, they have to try even harder to fire you to ensure that they could survive a lawsuit.
Independently on US laws, It's funny how people in the technosphere still believe that Mozilla are the good guys.
We need to, because they are the only ones fighting against Chrome monopoly. It's so sad to read news like this
I don't understand your comment. They are the good guys browser-wise but that doesn't mean they are good guys everywhere.
They're not the good guys browser wise, they're just slightly less shitty than Google, which was (still is probably?) their biggest customer.
How do you arrive at that conclusion?
Mozilla has consistently supported user privacy and the open web, which is consistent with their mission statement. They also need to pay the bills, and they've done that in a very unobtrusive way. Look at Pocket, which is easy to disable and is reasonably privacy friendly (for what it does). Look at Mozilla VPN, which is just repackaged Mullvad, essentially the gold standard for privacy-friendly VPN.
Yeah, Mozilla does a lot of stuff I disagree with and I'd run it differently, but I think they do enough good that they're on the good end of the spectrum. Using Firefox isn't the lesser of evils, it's a decent option among good options. Maybe it's not the best for you, but it's pretty good.
We're purity testing Mozilla now? What's up with that...There are no "good" or "bad" guys, this isn't a morality play. It's fucking browsers, bro, and to equate Mozilla to Microsoft or Google is insane.